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A hate group employee is now leading diversity & inclusion efforts in the Department of Education
Weeks ago, Sarah Parshall Perry was defending J.K. Rowling on the Family Research Council podcasts. Now, Betsy DeVos has bought her aboard to oversee inclusivity within the DOE.
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Federal appeals court rules that anti-trans school bathroom policies are unconstitutional
Gavin Grimm just won another court victory against the Gloucester County School Board of Virginia and its transphobic student bathroom policy.
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Iowa Republicans give up on removing transgender people from state’s civil rights protections
A Republican leader announced that he was killing the proposed bill that would have paved the way for Iowa to stop providing protections and medical care to trans people.
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Bayard Rustin was convicted for having sex with a man. Lawmakers want to finally address it.
Advocates in California want an official pardon as “an affirmation of what Rustin knew all along: that he was not a criminal for being gay.”
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Mike Pompeo just hinted that he considers LGBTQ civil rights ‘superfluous’
The U.S. Secretary of State said he considers some civil rights superfluous, comparing them to too many ice cream cones. Wait, what??
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Gavin Grimm’s former school board still insists its transphobic bathroom policy isn’t
The former school board seems determined to prove in a court of law that they’re legally allowed to force trans students to use a separate or incorrect bathroom.
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This black queer legal pioneer helped launch Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto the Supreme Court
Ginsburg named her as one of the co-authors in a career-defining legal brief, even though Pauli Murray had no hand in writing it.
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Here’s what it will take to get Trump enablers to support progressive values
White people will support social justice when they see that there is something in it for them.
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Hobby Lobby’s antigay lawyer is about to be rewarded with a lifetime appointment as a federal judge
His record of attacking women’s rights is well documented, but Duncan’s record on LGBT issues is particularly nightmarish.
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Trump’s murky new guidelines worry advocates for transgender students
What’s not clear is what exactly schools are supposed to do when faced with a student who identifies as transgender.