Ohio State

As the country learns about former President Donald Trump’s pick to join the Republican 2024 presidential ticket, a powerful new video released by theHuman Rights Campaign explains why Ohio grandparents Mike and Melissa H. — both lifelong GOP voters — decided to leave theRepublican Party, citing its increasingly hostile stance towardsLGBTQ+ people. The video shines a spotlight on the real-life impact of anti-trans legislation on families across America.

Ohioans explain abandoning Republican Party for love of their transgender grandchild

California State

Hollywood Unlocked

California has just made history as it becomes the first state in the nation to ban school policies requiring that teachers and other staff notify parents about student gender identities. RELATED: School Board Member In Florida Receives Backlash After Taking Elementary School Students To Gay Bar For Field Trip On Monday (July 15), California Governor ... Read more
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California Becomes First State To Ban School Policies Requiring Parents Be Notified About Student Gender Identities

Colorado State

As 2024 unfolds, LGBTQ+ Americans are moving to states that are not only safe but also welcoming. Here are 15 states that have become popular new homes for the community. California remains a beacon for LGBTQ+ individuals with its robust protections, inclusive healthcare policies, and vibrant community support networks in cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles.

LGBTQ+ Americans Are Flooding to These 15 States

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The boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Paris has become a focal point of controversy, particularly surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif. Khelif, competing in the women’s 66-kilogram division, has been under scrutiny after being barred from the 2023 world championships when she failed a gender identity test. Despite...

Caitlyn Jenner Criticizes Olympic Committee Over Boxer Imane Khelif’s Inclusion In Women’s Division After Failing Gender Identity Test

Area Mama was a popular gay crossdresser in Nigeria. (Photo courtesy Area Mama’s Facebook page) Police in Nigeria have confirmed the death of popular gay crossdresser in the country’s capital. Authorities on Aug. 8 found Area Mama’s body along the Katampe-Mabushi Expressway in Abuja. Several LGBTQ activists...

Popular gay crossdresser murdered in Nigeria

Cecilia Gentili's work still persists, even after her passing. The Human Rights Campaign has just announced the launch of the Cecilia Gentili grant, in partnership with the late trans activist’s organization, Transgender Equity Consulting. The award aims to assist organizations continuing the advocacy work of Gentili, aiding trans women of color, sex workers, immigrants, and the formerly incarcerated.

Cecilia Gentili's legacy lives on as trans Latinx group receives first-ever HRC grant (exclusive)

After decades of fighting for equal rights and acceptance, people on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, as well as those who don’t conform to traditional gender stereotypes, are experiencing more and more acceptance everyday. Although the LGBTQ community still doesn't enjoy secure rights in the eyes of United States government (gender-affirming medical care, for instance, is restricted in many states), everyday families are making more of an effort to raise their children without gender norms, prioritizing their happiness and individual identity, rather than forcing them to conform.

These Celebrities Are Raising Their Children Without Gender Stereotypes

The Guardian

VP nominee pushed baseless warning in 2022 that George Soros would pack planes of Black women to get abortions

JD Vance called for ‘federal response’ to block women from traveling for abortions

Indy100

For almost 2,000 years, a once-bustling city in the desert of Saudi Arabia was left abandoned to the sands of time.Hegra, a thriving international trade hub in the first century AD, fell into a steady decline after it was annexed by the Roman empire in 106 AD.Then, in the centuries that followed, it was all but forgotten: occasionally mentioned by pilgrims on their way to Mecca, but left largely untouched.Yet languishing in the burning sun for nearly two millennia left the extraordinary site remarkably well-preserved.And now it has finally opened up to both tourists and experts who are hailing it...

Breathtaking ancient city discovered in the desert reveals secrets of a forgotten civilisation

Detroit, MI

The past several years have seen record-high numbers of anti-LGBTQ+bills introduced in state legislatures around the country, which has demonstrably worsened the mental health of the queer and trans youth bearing the brunt of that onslaught. But Detroit-based public defender Sofia Nelson, who has recently made national headlines due to...

J.D. Vance’s Ex-Friend Wants Trans Kids to Know the GOP Is Using Them as a “Political Ploy”

Transgender people in the United States are well aware of what's at stake as the presidential election approaches. The community is also prepared to make their voices heard as November looms. Whereas 73 percent of the general U.S. population who are eligible to vote are registered to vote, 82 percent of eligible trans people are registered to vote, according to the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey's Civic Engagement findings.

Transgender people are showing up at the ballot box in spite of significant 'barriers' (exclusive)

Baltimore, MD

Advocates for the transgender community are calling for a prioritized investigation of a killing this month of a transgender woman in Maryland’s most populous city.

A transgender woman was found killed in a West Baltimore alley, prompting demands for answers and justice

Minnesota State

Salon

Transgender voters are more enthusiastic about the presidential race than ever since Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz took over the Democratic ticket, praising the duo's record on LGBTQ+ rights. Since President Biden’s decision to bow out of his reelection campaign, the number of transgender Americans who...

Trans voters more enthusiastic about voting for Harris than before

While Donald Trump attempts to distance his presidential campaign from Project 2025, his vice president pick is praising the man who helped spearhead it. Just days after Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, stepped down from his position due to pressure from the Trump team, Republican VP nominee JD Vance was revealed to have written the forward for Roberts' upcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light. While Roberts' book is not directly related to Project 2025, Vance's forward includes some telling tidbits about conservatives' plans for the country, and how they view their fellow Americans.

JD Vance calls on conservatives to 'circle the wagons and load the muskets'

A federal court has found that an Ohio school’s trans-inclusive anti-bullying policy does not violate the right to free speech, as a right-wing organization had claimed in a lawsuit. The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the 2-1 decision on Monday, affirming a lower court decision finding that...

A Federal Court Upheld an Ohio School District’s Ban on Anti-Trans Bullying

Orlando, FL

Police in Florida are asking for the public’s help in identifying the person who shot and killed a Black transgender woman in an Orlando parking lot last month. Monique Brooks, 49, was found suffering from at least one gunshot wound outside a Burlington Coat Factory around 3:50 a.m. on July 19, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. She was taken to a local hospital, where she later was pronounced dead.

Black trans woman Monique Brooks shot and killed in Florida parking lot

Nebraska State

The Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, a majority of the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday. The state’s high court...

Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion

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Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation making California the first U.S. state to prohibit schools from outing transgender students to their parents.

Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill barring schools from outing LGBTQ students to parents

Vivian Wilson is calling out the author of her father's biography for misrepresenting her identity and justifying the poor treatment she received, all after failing to contact her. Wilson took to Threads over the weekend to share her side of Walter Isaacson's 2023 biography of Elon Musk, accusing the writer...

Elon Musk's trans daughter, Vivian Wilson, slams his biography as 'genuinely defamatory'

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David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

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Powerful conservative operative’s Do No Harm group is a threat to transgender kids (exclusive)

Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization established in 2022 to combat what it calls ”wokeism” in medicine, has quickly emerged as a formidable force in the...

Powerful conservative operative’s Do No Harm group is a threat to transgender kids (exclusive)

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