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LGBTQ History
Pride in Pictures 2008: The Pride flag is now our icon
Gilbert Baker dyes and sews a symbol that endures.
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News (World)
‘Progressive’ Pope Francis says gay couples can’t be families
As Catholic charities in America fight for the right to discriminate against LGBT couples, the Pope is wading into the fray.
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News (USA)
As states restrict gay adoptions, Connecticut is recruiting more LGBTQ parents
In Kansas and Oklahoma, a social worker’s religious beliefs come before the good of the child. In Connecticut, the child comes first.
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News (USA)
Bill making it legal to ban gays & lesbians from adopting passes in Kansas
The bill legalizes discrimination. The Republican governor said it would ensure “fairness” and “protect everyone.”
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News (USA)
Kansas governor will sign law making it legal to ban gays & lesbians from adopting
The law would allow adoption agencies to discard the best interests of the child in favor of the group’s “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
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News (USA)
Oklahoma & Kansas inch closer to legalizing discrimination in adoptions
Child service agencies and business are against allowing discrimination against gay and lesbian couples – but Catholic officials and the Kansas City Chiefs’ owner are for it.
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News (USA)
This gay minister is on trial again for loving his husband
Because nothing angers Jesus more than love, right?
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News (USA)
Senate Republicans introduce bill to give companies a license to discriminate
21 senators have signed onto a bill that would allow discrimination against LGBT people. Trump has pledged to support it.
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Health and Wellness
The South needs PrEP the most, so why are the fewest prescriptions written there?
And why don’t some doctors know what it is and what it can do?
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News (USA)
Federal courts are standing up to Trump & Sessions’ anti-transgender agenda
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions may be anti-trans, but federal courts aren’t playing along.
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News (USA)
Retired Citigroup VP donates $1M for LGBTQ scholarships
University of Kansas alum Chad Leat was one of the first openly gay financial leaders on Wall Street.
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News (USA)
For transgender Kansans, there may be no place as hateful as home
The resolution came from the son-in-law of Sam Brownback, Trump’s “ambassador” for religious freedom.
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News (USA)
Republicans confirm Sam Brownback as ‘Religious Freedom Ambassador’
At the confirmation hearing, Brownback wouldn’t even say if he thinks that executing gay people is unacceptable.
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News (USA)
Conservatives freaked out over a student’s rainbow. So his school ended a tradition.
The rainbow flag was more controversial than Confederate flags and “Make America Great Again.”
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News (USA)
Trump ‘religious freedom’ nominee refuses to condemn antigay executions
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback also faced tough questioning during his Senate confirmation hearing about his own anti-LGBTQ voting record.
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News (USA)
After queer students were bullied by Trumpers during Homecoming, this town wasn’t having it
The students were left in tears after being pelted with candy as the crowd chanted “Make America straight again” during a homecoming parade.
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News (USA)
Bullies chanted ‘Make America straight again’ at LGBT students in a school parade
The bullies also threw candy and told the LGBT students to kill themselves.
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News (USA)
These high school students in Kansas staged a sit-in to stand up for trans people
They wouldn’t move, the number of kids joining them grew every hour, and then they won.
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News (USA)
BREAKING: 2 more senators refuse to back Republican health care bill
This deals a serious blow to the Republican’s chances of repealing and replacing Obamacare.
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News (USA)
What Chelsea Manning will do first now that she’s been released from prison
The transgender Army private walked out of Fort Leavenworth a free woman, with a camera recording her every move.