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LGBTQ Rights
Republicans Across US Pushing Dangerous Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Abortion Measures
A flurry of new anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ measures are being introduced in state legislatures.
House Republicans Use “Lesbian Radical Feminist” to Advance Anti-Trans Rhetoric
Julia Beck has been granted a platform to give the right wing's anti-transgender activism the veneer of bipartisanship.
Racist Anti-LGBTQ Violence Is Real. Smollett Doesn’t Change That.
Too much focus on Jussie Smollett distracts from the fact that violence against LGBTQ people of color is rising.
Trump Administration Wants to Deny Health Care to LGBTQ People
A conscience protection rule being considered would allow doctors to deny care on moral and religious grounds.
Colorado’s Ban on “Conversion Therapy” Won’t Stop the Catholic Church
Denver's archdiocese is planning to skirt the ban with “healing” programs for LGBTQ people at parishes.
William Barr Is a Danger to Civil Rights
Barr is willing to jail journalists if he believes "they're putting out stuff that would hurt the country.”
Will the Supreme Court Keep LGBTQ Workers From Being Fired?
Employees can already be fired for being LGBTQ in 26 states.
The LGBTQ Movement Needs to Revisit Its Radical Past to Thrive
Author Roderick A. Ferguson discusses the commodification of queerness.
Mitch McConnell Determined to Confirm Trump’s Radical Anti-Choice Judges
The latest slate of President Trump's judges could undo reproductive rights for decades to come.
Gay Emancipation Goes to Market
In this excerpt, Roderick A. Ferguson examines the beginnings of depoliticization in the LGBT movement.