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To combat discrimination Citi launched an initiative with Mastercard to offer transgender customers the ability to use their chosen first name on credit cards.

In a series of tweets this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mocked people who list the pronouns they would like others to use to describe them in their online bios.

The Mansfield ISD Board of Trustees will meet virtually Tuesday night and discuss a potential policy barring discrimination against teachers and students of MISD based on sexual orientation and the impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling on current policies.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that LGBTQ rights are protected from discrimination in employment.

Dallas Hope Charities (DHC) has a mission to inspire a vibrant, inclusive and progressive volunteer force in the fight against homelessness and hunger.

Taylor Swift is making a “Gorgeous” statement with her latest surprise performance. After dropping her new song, “You Need to Calm Down,” on Friday, the singer made her way over to the historic Stonewall Inn for a surprise performance in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The mini-concert was very fitting for the new single considering she...

They didn’t set out to change history; they weren’t the first LGBT Americans to mobilize against bias. Yet the June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbians and transgender people in New York City, clashing with police near a bar called the Stonewall Inn, was a vital catalyst in expanding LGBT activism nationwide and abroad. This month’s anniversary provides an opportune...

Taylor Swift is making a “Gorgeous” statement with her latest surprise performance. After dropping her new song, “You Need to Calm Down,” on Friday, the singer made her way over to the historic Stonewall Inn for a surprise performance in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The mini-concert was very fitting for the new single considering she...

Thousands of people lined the streets for gay pride parades Sunday in coast-to-coast events that took both celebratory and political tones, the latter a reaction to what some see as new threats to gay rights in the Trump era. In a year when leaders are anxious about the president’s agenda, parade organizers in New York and San Francisco were more...

Two Republican lawmakers proposed a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors in conservative Utah on Thursday, a plan that’s been hailed as a milestone by advocates and won’t be opposed by the influential Mormon church. Republican Rep. Dan McCay acknowledged he isn’t a typical sponsor for such a measure, but he said it’s an important way to support LGBT...

A transgender woman convicted of insurance fraud is serving time at a men’s prison in North Carolina despite her repeated requests to transfer to women’s housing. The News and Observer reports 37-year-old Kanautica Zayre-Brown is believed to be the state’s only post-operative transgender prisoner. But the state recognizes her as a man and by her birth name, which was legally...

Human rights and LGBT activists on Friday denounced a ruling by Japan’s Supreme Court upholding a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their gender changed on official documents. The court said the law is constitutional because it was meant to reduce confusion in families and society. But it acknowledged that it restricts freedom...

There are some jokes that just sound wrong coming from Seth Meyers, like the one about the Rosa Parks movie.

A religious group based in Arlington, Texas, says it’s working to get its app reinstated after Apple removed it from the app store Friday after a national gay rights organization petitioned to have it pulled.

A Shawnee State University professor is suing officials after receiving a written warning for violating its nondiscrimination policy by not addressing a transgender student using the gender terms preferred by the student. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor and evangelical Christian, filed a federal lawsuit this month against officials at the university in Portsmouth.

A Mansfield Independent School District teacher suspended since September announced Tuesday she was filing a lawsuit against the district, claiming she was removed from the classroom because of her sexual orientation.

The director of Disney’s “Frozen” is keeping options open for Queen Elsa as fans call for the character to have a romance with a female in the upcoming “Frozen 2” sequel. In an interview for her upcoming movie, “A Wrinkle in Time,” co-director of “Frozen” Jennifer Lee she said she wouldn’t be opposed to seeing Elsa have a lesbian relationship...

A website launched on Thursday by LGBT activists petitions Amazon not to move its HQ2 project to Texas or eight other states.

At least 25 transgender people in the United States have been homicide victims so far this year, the highest annual total on record, according to advocacy groups that have been monitoring the grim phenomenon and seeking ways to reduce the toll. The Human Rights Campaign, in a report released Friday, calculated that 102 transgender people have been killed in the...

A gay lawmaker on Thursday started the Australian Parliament’s debate on legal recognition for same-sex marriage with an emotional speech in which he warned against attempts at winding back LGBT rights, a day after voters backed marriage equality. Dean Smith, a senator with the ruling conservative Liberal Party, introduced a bill that would limit who could legally refuse to take...