Rhode Island

Ashley Kalus says her texts calling her contractor “a bottom,” “Mr. Mom,” and “p**sy b*tch” were taken out of context and show she’s a fighter.

“Since the twerking video came out there have been a subset of racist misogynistic people who have called me anything and everything from the n word to fat to gorilla.”

After beating an anti-LGBTQ incumbent in the primary, this Black Queer activist is ready to take on the Rhode Island State Senate.

The campaign staff for Pete Buttigieg cancelled a Chasten-headlined event at a Rhode Island gay bar because they wouldn’t remove a ‘dancer pole.’

An estimated 100,000 LGBTQ soldiers have been discharged from the military since World War II. Now are they getting their due.

Killing someone because they’re LGBTQ “is not a defense, it is a hate crime.”

A huge majority in the Massachusetts House just passed a conversion therapy ban.

More American Muslims support same-sex marriage than the residents of these states.

The Aloha state joins Maryland as bans on the harmful practice await the Governors’ signatures.

And why don’t some doctors know what it is and what it can do?

Other firefighters shoved her, insulted her, spit on her, refused to work with her, and even sprayed blood and “brain matter” on her.

“Transgender service members fill a number of critical military roles. Retaining these talented service members strengthens – not weakens – our military readiness.”

The law bars providers from advertising or engaging in conversion therapy for those under 18.

The police union did not support the new protections for transgender people, immigrants, and minorities.

It now moves to the state Senate.

The friend-of-the-court brief, filed by 19 attorneys general, says that allowing transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender creates no public safety, privacy or financial burdens.

The measure would ban so-called “conversion therapy,” a practice aimed at changing young people’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

LGBTQ individuals are at greater risk of experiencing victimization and data suggest hate crimes have risen since the November election.

Some held up signs that said “Peaceful Pants Party” and “I’ve Got Passion For My Pants.”

Single women and married lesbians are not admitted, even as associates, because they are not married to a man.