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Over 40 years ago, Tony Powell left the U.K. for a new life in West Hollywood.The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel, explores just what, or who, he was running from.

The Anne Arundel County policy change came after Education Secretary Linda McMahon urged the Justice Department to punish the district, citing parental rights protections.

Giovonni Santiago helped create the VA’s first transgender-specific clinic. A decade later, he is watching the government dismantle the system that made its care possible.

Opinion: As reports of Black Americans found hanging from trees evoke the country's history of lynching, queer writer Josh Ackley argues that solidarity across marginalized communities is more urgent than ever.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to be told.

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The defense secretary used the slur while campaigning for Republican Rep. Zach Nunn, then called the military “gender-neutral.”

The out gay founder of the newest queer dating app is stepping away from the company he founded.

“The goal of ending ‘gender-affirming care’ is not in and of itself an ‘improper’ policy objective,” Judge Carlos Bea wrote.

A King George Middle School eighth-grader is asking a federal judge to intervene immediately after records show the district rewrote its policy to deny the GSA's existence.

No one can throw a punch at Mango Mussolini quite like Rosie, writes John Casey.

The ruling says the administration ignored existing law when it changed the rules that identify “essential benefits” under the Affordable Care Act.