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Politics
Biden’s team says landmark LGBTQ rights legislation could take more than 100 days to pass
But reversing the transgender military ban is still on the agenda for Joe Biden’s first day in office.
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Politics
The first congressional candidate of 2021 would be New Mexico’s first LGBTQ member of Congress
Victor Reyes is vying for the seat of Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), who has been nominated for Secretary of the Interior by President-Elect Joe Biden.
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Commentary
Joe Biden needs to push the Equality Act through in his first 100 days as President
The bill is written and the votes are there in both houses. The measure just needs the commitment of the Biden administration to make it a priority.
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Politics
2020 election saw increase in “Equality” voters that prioritize LGBTQ rights
The Human Rights Campaign-commissioned poll also re-confirmed that Trump did not receive more LGBTQ voters, as initially believed.
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Election 2020
Billy Porter reminds us that LGBTQ people made the difference in the election. But the work’s not done yet.
See GLAAD’s new Billy Porter-narrated video, detailing how organizers and voters changed the election, on LGBTQ Nation first.
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Commentary
Corporate America loves LGBTQ people & anti-LGBTQ politicians
The US Chamber of Commerce says it supports LGBTQ equality but it is spending $2 million to support two anti-LGBTQ Republican Senators in their runoff election – and that race will decide the fate of LGBTQ rights.
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Politics
Joe Biden will make LGBTQ rights a priority after inauguration
While he can reverse Trump’s executive orders, the fate of federal legislation banning discrimination rests on two Senate races in Georgia.
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Politics
Will QAnon believers accidentally hand LGBTQ people civil rights?
By sitting out the election, Trump supporters who spent the past four years opposing the equality of their fellow Americans could inadvertently advance civil rights protections for the LGBTQ community.
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Commentary
I’m a veteran. I’m a nurse. And I’m transgender.
I was devoted to defending the freedoms that all Americans hold dear. On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, I’m asking Congress to do the same.
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Commentary
Joe Biden makes a pledge to trans people: “I believe that Trans Lives Matter”
The death of Sara Blackwood, in part, spurred former Vice President Joe Biden to speak on the “unacceptable” epidemic of violence facing transgender & gender non-conforming people.