She also said that the bill is unnecessary because the 14th Amendment of the Constitution already ensures “that all men are equal under the law.” But 27 U.S. states lack comprehensive anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Once known for singer Anita Bryant’s anti-gay rights campaign and a ban on gay and lesbian adoptions, Florida is now home to two metro areas with among the highest concentrations of gay and lesbian coupled households…
To the extent that there is a real national debate about the participation of trans people in sports, it is almost exclusively concerned with teenagers in student athletics programs. This is despite the fact that there are not very many of them; one trans student in Idaho described realizing the state’s (currently challenged) law, which…
In The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a classic 1943 film that traces, in vaguely allegorical fashion, half a century’s evolution in England’s national character, the actress Deborah Kerr plays a series of roles that represent changing incarnations of the ideal British woman. Were a similar technicolor romance to portray America’s national character over…
Audre Lorde, the American poet, civil rights activist, feminist, and professor, is honoured in today’s Google Doodle. The illustration of the self-described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” was created by Los Angeles-based artist Monica Ahanonu. The doodle features an excerpt from Lorde’s 1982 speech “Learning from the 60s,” delivered at Harvard...
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Once again, we’re switching up the format a little, so please let us know your thoughts on it (or any other form you’d like to see this feature take) by shooting us an email. How you frame D.C. statehood matters This week the House of Representatives held a…
The decision threatens to further alienate Ankara from its Western allies, including the U.S., which has recently chastised Turkey for anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.
I bet you’re burned out after enduring a full year of the Covid-19 pandemic. If you have kids, you’re probably trying to teach them at home, either between work shifts out in the world or while sharing a kitchen-table office with them. You might have had to care for sick family members while somehow avoiding…
The pandemic has exacerbated the existing issues for LGBTQ people, including employment and housing discrimination and higher rates of mental health problems.