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Trans people’s rights are a top concern among LGBTQ Nation readers this year. Last month, we asked you what your main concerns are for the 2026 midterms and what you think they could change. Quite a few people discussed trans rights, which have been under attack for the past several years. Related “Like all trans

Colorado’s second-largest school district, Jefferson County Public Schools (Jeffco), has made history as one of the few local school districts to sue the Trump administration for its threats to cut off federal education funding unless the district drops its policies accommodating transgender students. The administration threatened to cut off all $50 million of federal funding

Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano have been sentenced to life in prison without parole for their role as “ringleaders” in the brutal early 2025 torture and killing of 24-year-old trans man Sam Nordquist. During the sentencing, Nordquist’s mother and sister spoke, and Arzuaga apologized for her role in Nordquist’s grisly death. “I was trying to

An 18-year-old Salt Lake City, Utah, man has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly stalking a former classmate and saying he “couldn’t wait to kill a gay person.” The victim, referred to as F.F. by the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office, reportedly attended West High School with suspect Damyen Vainuku, and according

Just when you thought Dolly Parton couldn’t be any more sainted, her death at the age of 80 last week surfaced a story that makes it so. One of the most important staffers among Parton’s close circle of supporters was a transgender man. Related Jason Pirro met Parton in the 1980s when he found himself

Tonya Agnew is a mom of two adult children, a wife, and the Vice President of Communications & Marketing for Family Equality – a national nonprofit that protects and advances freedoms for LGBTQ+ families Pack lunch. Set out the perfect first day outfit. Finish summer reading. Come out – again and again. That last one

While school history textbooks characterize the earliest Puritan colonists in the US as Christian zealots who punished all sinners, dissenters, and non-believers, an early American settler established a small community that held the seeds of LGBTQ+ counter-cultural revolution. The Mayflower ship of pilgrims arrived on the tip of what is now known as Cape Cod,

Sep 11, 2025; Arlington, VA; President Donald Trump | Jack Gruber-USA TODAY Donald Trump posted a disturbing message to social media on Saturday that has people wondering if he’s going to die soon. The post had no text and was just a video of Frank Sinatra singing “My Way.” The song is about a person

After a legal battle that lasted nearly 10 years, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that transgender people have a legal right to change their name and gender markers on official ID documents. The case began when a Bulgarian trans woman moved to Italy and, for years, was repeatedly denied the right to

As new fathers, Randall Tarpey-Schwed and his husband loved the bedtime ritual of reading stories with their kids, so much so that they ran out of books that contained their favorite themes: acceptance, community, and love in families like theirs. “We read all kinds of children’s books to our kids,” San Francisco resident Tarpey-Schwed told

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the administration sending a gay man to a prison camp in El Salvador and not even knowing if he’s still alive. Noem said that it wasn’t her problem. Noem, who has bragged in the past about shooting her dog to death, appeared before the

LGBTQ+ fans are devastated that the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars canceled their Pride Night for the upcoming season, but right-wingers are celebrating the move as evidence that “not every sport is woke.” The anti-LGBTQ+ Family Research Council (FRC) shared an article in its Washington Stand publication celebrating that the Stars are done with Pride

LGBTQ+ advocates are sounding the alarm over a new Ecuadorian adoption law explicitly banning LGBTQ+ couples in the South American country from adopting children. The Reform Law of Various Legal Bodies for the Streamlining of Adoption took effect on August 14 after the National Assembly approved it 118-0, with the goal of reducing the time

Lesbian comedienne and talk show hostess Rosie O’Donnell posted a video on Thursday of herself and seven survivors of now-deceased billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein singing Helen Reddy’s 1972 feminist power anthem “I Am Woman,” to protest the Trump administration’s failure to fully release the investigatory files related to Epstein. “After the corrupt AG

An anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing Republican candidate for Missouri state representative is in custody on a charge that he conspired to plant drugs on his opponent in the Republican primary last month. He won the race by 32 votes. Thomas Ross, 37, was booked into Joplin City jail on Tuesday. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors revealed he’s charged

A gay Christian podcaster was arrested this week and charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump. Federal agents took 40-year-old Benjamin Azariah Southworth into custody Thursday morning at his home in Los Angeles’ Westlake neighborhood, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. Related The former

Two men are in custody in Madison, Wisconsin, after witnesses and surveillance footage revealed they assaulted a transgender woman on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, according to a complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court on Tuesday. According to the complaint, the unnamed woman told police on their arrival at the scene, “These

An Idaho jury on August 27 found Rev. Sara LaWall, a pastor with a transgender child, guilty of a misdemeanor trespassing charge for refusing to leave the office of Gov. Brad Little (R) after it closed on April 1st. LaWall was one of nine protesters arrested in Little’s office on that day during a demonstration

Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist who many considered to be the face of the feminist movement for half a century, died Wednesday at her home in New York City at the age of 92. A post on her official Instagram account early Thursday morning said that Steinem “passed away peacefully … surrounded by some

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been getting positive attention on social media this week following an appearance on a “manosphere” podcast where he explained his vision for the Democratic party. Fox News, though, had a problem with a gay man appearing on Flagrant, a podcast geared towards men, and one person in particular took

The Maine Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that a father can prevent his daughter’s mother from taking the child to an anti-LGBTQ+ church in Maine. The mother was represented by the Christian nationalist legal group the Liberty Counsel, which drew national attention to the parents’ custody battle by portraying the child’s dad as anti-Christian.

Trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) slammed Pete Hegseth in an interview on Tuesday for pretty much everything he has done so far as Secretary of Defense, accusing him of being “fundamentally unwilling to have anyone who makes him question his own superiority surrounding him.” “From day one during his tenure at the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth

A Wyoming county district court ruled on Monday that a criminal case against a trans woman who pulled a gun on a man who pushed her to the ground will go to trial. According to The Laramie Reporter, the court found the woman’s lawyers failed to prove that her actions were covered under the state’s

Saline County, Arkansas has agreed to pay $275,000 to Patty Hector, the county library’s former executive director, to settle her lawsuit claiming that county officials violated her free speech rights by firing her in October 2023 after she publicly opposed an April 2023 resolution from the county’s all-Republican Quorum Court to remove LGBTQ+ books from

CNN Chief Data analyst Harry Enten | Screenshot CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten on Monday detailed a remarkable shift among Independents as America prepares for the midterm elections in November. Enten explained that if “you win independents, you win elections,” which is why the preferences of this demographic have been so closely monitored. He

Civil registry offices across Poland began legally recognizing same-sex marriages from other countries as of yesterday, TVP World reported. However, Poland itself has not legalized same-sex marriages within its own borders. The country was compelled to start recognizing foreign same-sex marriages after legal rulings by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and

The Department of State apologized for “deadnaming” a lake after President Donald Trump’s executive order last week renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America. Because deadnaming usually refers to the act of referring to a transgender, non-binary, or gender-expansive individual by their birth name or any former names they no longer use, the federal department’s use

Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at the old Pillsbury plant Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. | © Thomas J. Turney/The State Journal-Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images During a campaign speech over the weekend, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) detailed the challenges of running a state in Donald Trump’s America. “I have to worry about

Trans advocates are disappointed that Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint will reprise the role of Ron Weasley in a 17-week run of Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Grint – who played the character in all eight original Harry Potter films – originally worked to distance himself from author JK Rowling after she became

An organization led by trans South Asian immigrants is struggling to survive in the face of fewer opportunities for city and state funding. While the group thought it might have to shut down entirely in October, the community has started to rally around it. Now, leaders are hopeful that they will be able to keep