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![A protester yells while pointing out of frame to a police officer in the foreground](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/09/2019_0904-protester-police-400x300.jpg)
Police Protect “Straight Pride Parade” and Attack Counterprotesters
The counterprotesters outnumbered the “Straight Pride” attendees 10 to 1.
![Currently, only 20 states and the District of Columbia have laws that explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0827-dress-code-400x300.jpg)
Fired for Being Trans or for Violating Dress Code? Supreme Court Will Decide.
The Trump administration says an employer can fire you for being transgender if they are really enforcing a dress code.
![Pro-choice activists, politicians and others associated with Planned Parenthood gather for a news conference and demonstration at City Hall against the Trump administrations Title X rule change on February 25, 2019, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0822-planned-parenthood-400x300.jpg)
Why the LGBTQ Community Should Be Worried About Trump’s Gag Rule
Title X clinics have filled a critical gap in providing nonjudgmental health care for LGBTQ people.
![Philadelphia's Transgender community rallied in Love Park in Center City Philadelphia before marching through downtown to demand basic human and civil rights in Philadelphia, on October 6, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/GettyImages-1046951022-400x300.jpg)
Trump DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Legalize Firing Workers for Being Transgender
The filing comes days after the Labor Department unveiled a rule allowing LGBTQ discrimination by federal contractors.
![Queer activists display anti-trump signs during a march](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0816-gay-rights-400x300.jpg)
New Trump Rule Allows Federal Contractors to Fire LGBTQ Employees
A stealth campaign to legalize bigotry continues with a new Department of Labor rule.
![Guatemalan candidate for the Vamos party, Alejandro Giammattei, votes at a polling station in Guatemala City on June 16, 2019, during general elections.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0811-guatemala-voting-400x300.jpg)
Presidential Candidates in Guatemala’s Election Oppose LGBTIQ+ Rights
Anti-LGBTQ platforms are springing up across the region.
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Queer Liberation March Returns Pride to Radical Roots
Tens of thousands of activists gathered for the anti-corporate march in New York.
![Budweiser employees dance on a float during the Toronto Pride Parade, June 25, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/06/2019_0630-bud-light-pride-400x300.jpg)
No Rainbow Capitalism: The Five Worst Corporations We Must Kick Out of Pride
These companies drape themselves in rainbow flags while hurting LGBTQ+ people around the world.
![Members of an LGBT group traveling with the the Central American migrant caravan wait for a ride on November 1, 2018, in Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/06/GettyImages-1056338198-400x300.jpg)
It’s Pride. Don’t Forget Trans Women Dying at the Border.
LGBTQ people won’t be free until all of us are, regardless of where we come from.
![Joe Biden squints into an apparent source of light while speaking into a microphone](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/06/2019_0628-joe-biden-400x300.jpg)
Joe Biden, Get Out of Stonewall
The Democratic Party is not a true ally in the fight for LGBTQ liberation.