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Trans people are expected to support National Coming Out Day, but are you honoring Trans Day of Remembrance? You should be.

Despite new treatment methods, Human Immunodeficiency Virus remains one of the most common and most dangerous STDs in the U.S.

Gov. John Bel Edwards issued an executive order Wednesday banning discrimination in state government based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Opponents say the proposal is discriminatory, unnecessary and may harm Louisiana’s economy.

“If you have makeup on or anything like that you’re supposed to take all that off, because you are actually a man,” a worker on the video tells Alexandra Glover, who was born Dylan Glover.

BATON ROUGE, La. — The East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council has voted 8-4 vote to reject a proposed local law banning discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Baton Rouge Advocate reports the proposal generated weeks of passionate debate about the legal protections for LGBT people in the capital city.

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Baton Rouge Metro Council is again contemplating an anti-discrimination measure supported by the gay community, but it’s unclear how the proposal will fare when council members cast their votes.

BATON ROUGE, La. — House Speaker Chuck Kleckley says he won’t seek a repeal of an unconstitutional anti-sodomy law from Louisiana’s criminal statutes.

BATON ROUGE, La. — The East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s recent use of an unconstitutional law to arrest gay men who weren’t doing anything illegal might not have happened if state lawmakers had stripped the statute from the state’s law books once it was thrown out.

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Sheriff’s Office in East Baton Rouge, La., that arrested at least 12 men since 2011 under a sodomy law invalidated in 2003 by the U.S. Supreme Court, now says it “should have taken a different approach” to concerns about park safety, and will no longer enforce the outdated law.

BATON ROUGE, La. — At least a dozen men since 2011, the most recent on July 18, have been arrested in East Baton Rouge, La., under the state’s unenforceable “crimes against nature” anti-sodomy law.