Mid-March was the annual LGBTQ+ Health Awareness Week, designated by the National Coalition for LGBTQ+ Health. The week, according to organization, is “intended to help the healthcare community advocate for reducing barriers to LGBTQ persons by creating and maintaining safe, inclusive, and welcoming environments — and ensuring quality, accessible, and non-discriminatory health care.”
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InterPride will honor Joel Kim Booster, Fran Drescher, Laith Ashley, and Pride 365 at its first Global Gala, to be held April 29 in Los Angeles. Read on »
Brittney Griner will publish a memoir detailing the events of the worst year of her life next spring, publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday. Read on »
In Franklin, Tenn., a historic town about half an hour from Nashville, a Pride festival has been held without incident for the past two years. But this year, which has seen a ramping up of anti-LGBTQ+ activism in Tennessee and elsewhere, the festival has become a point of contention. Read on »
A Republican legislator in Florida has apologized for calling transgender people “demons” and "mutants" during debate over a bill that would base access to bathrooms, locker rooms, and other facilities in the state on one’s reproductive abilities and assigned gender at birth. Read on »
Country music star Zach Bryan showed solidarity with the transgender community by publicly criticizing his fellow musicians for their intolerance of transgender people. Read on »
A newly formed group launched two weeks ago seeks to help transgender Americans escape the United States. Nearly three dozen applicants have already sought assistance emigrating from the country or obtaining asylum. Read on »
Author Rachel Pollack, a transgender activist who created the first trans superhero in a mainstream comic book, died Friday at age 77. Read on »
A recent story hour event in Washington, D.C., for kids hosted by a slate of anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing influencers and media personalities received a lot of attention, not for attendance, but for the strong showing of support for the LGBTQ+ community that library officials displayed to counterbalance the event that featured noted transphobe Chaya Raichik, who runs the hate account Libs of TikTok on Twitter. Read on »
Fourteen transgender and nonbinary state legislators have written a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concern about his administration’s proposed regulation regarding trans participation in school sports. Read on »
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