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Advocates celebrate as Louisiana Senate kills gender-affirming care ban
The tie-breaking vote came down to a dissenting Republican.
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Library board stands up to transphobes & keeps LGBTQ+ books on the shelves
The contentious meeting resulted in one person being kicked out after he challenged someone else to a fight.
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Librarian says “I fear for my safety” as threats over LGBTQ+ books escalate
“I am scared to go places in public,” Amanda Jones says. “I purchased a taser. I purchased pepper spray. I got additional security cameras around my home.”
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GOP gubernatorial candidate says Satan is sitting in libraries
He described efforts to ban LGBTQ+ books as “an absolute battle between good and evil.”
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The savage Christmas murder that rocked a Louisiana gay bar
It took years for the truth of what really happened to shake out.
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California blocks state-funded travel to 4 states that just passed anti-LGBTQ laws
California ain’t playing around when it comes to standing up for LGBTQ rights.
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Louisiana tells schools to keep discriminating against trans students
The state told schools they don’t have to follow proposed rules to implement federal law on LGBTQ discrimination in schools.
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Rightwingers attacked school librarian who defended books. She’s suing them for defamation.
Conservatives said the worst they could about librarian Amanda Jones when she defended her library’s books. She’s not letting them get away with it.
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Christian school kicks out 5-year-old because she got adopted by her lesbian aunts
Both of Zoey Parker’s parents were dead by the time she was 3. Her school says her new moms’ “lifestyle choices” go against the school’s values.
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10-year-old creates free library offering LGBTQ books to fight book bans
“I hope that if the library sees this there will really be no point in banning LGBTQ books and so they won’t actually do it.”