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Transgender people can be baptized Catholic and serve as godparents, Vatican says
The document was signed Oct. 21 by Pope Francis and Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who heads the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
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Inside the anti-LGBTQ effort to put Christian prayer and the Bible back in schools
Some Christian pastors and politicians argue that school prayer would prevent children from identifying as transgender. LGBTQ rights advocates are fighting back.
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Jury awards $100,000 to Kentucky couple denied marriage license
A federal jury has awarded $100,000 to a Kentucky couple who sued former county clerk Kim Davis over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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California business owner, mother of 9 killed after confrontation over Pride flag in front of her shop
Authorities say a California store owner has been fatally shot after a dispute over a LGBTQ Pride flag outside her business.
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Empowering the LGBTQ+ community with love
Learn how Mama Bears is making the world a more loving place for people to live through their online community.
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Georgia panel rejects recommendation to fire teacher for reading book on gender fluidity to 5th graders
The panel reached a decision after a two-day hearing last week about whether Rinderle should be fired for reading the picture book “My Shadow is Purple” by Scott Stuart.
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Wendy Guevara becomes the first trans woman to win a Mexican reality TV series
Guevara won “La casa de los famosos México” with more than 18 million fan votes, marking a historic moment in Mexican reality TV.
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Red Cross now allowing more gay and bisexual men to donate blood following FDA guidelines
The updated guidelines do away with a requirement that men who have sex with men abstain from sex for three months prior to giving blood.
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3 people say they were tricked into appearing in anti-trans film ‘What Is a Woman?'
Three people who appeared in the viral documentary “What Is a Woman?” told NBC News that the producers misrepresented how it would portray transgender topics.
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Web designer in Supreme Court gay rights ruling cited client who denies making wedding site request
A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled could refuse to make a wedding website for gay couples had cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her.
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Supreme Court: First Amendment allows Christian web designer to refuse LGBTQ clients
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a Christian graphic artist can refuse to design wedding websites for same-sex couples.
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Anheuser-Busch CEO says his company will continue to support the LGBTQ community
Bud Light hired transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson, setting off a backlash the brand is still struggling to contain.
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For some states with laws on transgender bathrooms, officials may not know how they will be enforced
U.S. states with laws restricting what bathrooms transgender kids can use in public schools are wrestling with how those laws will be enforced. At least 10 states have enacted such laws and transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people expect states to rely on what they call vigilante enforcement by private individuals. Arkansas and Florida threaten educators’ licenses. Oklahoma promises to cut...
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Sorority says rules allow transgender woman to join Wyoming chapter
Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Wyoming sued in March, saying the sorority violated its own rules by admitting a transgender woman.
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Man sentenced to federal prison for plotting to eradicate gay community in Montana town
The 46-year-old man was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after being convicted of a hate crime and firearms charges
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Blue Jays cut pitcher Anthony Bass after latest anti-LGBTQ+ comments
The Toronto Blue Jays cut pitcher Anthony Bass on Friday, one day after the right-handed reliever said he didn’t think an anti-LGBTQ+ social media post he shared last month was hateful.
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Biden condemns wave of state legislation restricting LGBTQ+ rights, says ‘these are our kids'
President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned a wave of “cruel” and “callous” state laws curbing the rights, visibility and health care access of LGBTQ+ people, especially children, leaving them feeling under attack like never before and the White House with limited options to intervene.
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Pride flag burned outside a City Hall in Arizona
A Pride flag was taken down and burned outside of a City Hall building in Tempe, Arizona, officials said Tuesday.
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As conservatives target schools, LGBTQ+ kids and students of color feel less safe
As politicians and activists push for limits on discussions of race, gender and sexuality, some students say the measures targeting aspects of their identity have made them less welcome in American schools.
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Colorful Array of Advocacy and Allies at Dallas Pride Parade
The Allen Ross Texas Freedom Parade stepped off at Fair Park in Dallas on Sunday.