Budapest Pride to proceed despite Hungary's LGBTQ+ event ban
A Pride parade protesting Hungary's LGBTQ+ crack down has been backed by over 30 foreign embassies – but not the United States.
June 23, 2025
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Idaho Gender-Affirming Care Ban for Transgender Minors Blocked for Now
The law would have placed medical professionals who provide such care for transgender people under the age of 18 at risk of fines up to $5,000 and a felony conviction, resulting in up to 10 years in prison.
December 29, 2023
Indonesia's Latest Assault on LGBTs: Gay App Ban
In moving to deny access to apps like Grindr, the world's fourth most populous nation continues to isolate and endanger its LGBT citizens.
September 15, 2016
Billie Jean King says a Massachusetts challenge to a kids book about her is ‘so very sad’
A mother has asked her child’s school to remove the book because it mentions LGBTQ+ people and divorce. The lesbian tennis legend had thoughts.
May 16, 2024
Hungary passes constitutional amendment banning public LGBTQ+ events
The law also allows the government to use facial recognition technology to identify those who attend prohibited events
April 14, 2025
2016: The Year in Review
Everything that mattered, from odious Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, to queers marching in New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade, to the end of the ban on trans military service, to the massacre in Orlando -- and much more.
December 27, 2016
50 Years After Stonewall, It’s Time to Protect LGBTQ Families
New York is playing catch up on LGBTQ rights. Now it needs to secure the rights of queer families.
January 26, 2019
Forever Mine: Why LGBTQ+ Parents Should Consider Adopting Their Own Children
This National Adoption Month, an attorney for Family Equality highlights a different type of adoption: stepparent, second parent, and confirmatory adoption for LGBTQ+ parents.
November 30, 2023
Mom Beats Her Son, Says Mike Pence's Law Makes It OK
The evangelical woman cited her sincerely held religious beliefs as reason she can beat her son with a coat hanger if she wants.
September 3, 2016
Anti-LGBTQ+ mom in Oregon wins right to potentially adopt LGBTQ+ kids
Jessica Bates said she would not let her kids dress how they want, nor take them to the doctor for gender dysphoria treatment.
July 25, 2025
LGBTQ+ Americans Are in 'State of Emergency,' Declares Human Rights Campaign
In a time of unprecedented legislative attacks on the LGBTQ+ community, the civil rights group is offering resources for fighting back.
June 6, 2023
All LGBTQ Children in Foster Care Are Under Attack
Republicans are going after our most vulnerable.
July 20, 2018
Families Sue Arkansas Over Transgender Health Care Ban
"This law stands in the way of our child getting the medical care she will desperately need," says Amanda Dennis, mother of a trans daughter.
May 25, 2021
Delaware Now 15th State to Ban Conversion Therapy on Minors
Gov. John Carney signed a bill to that effect into law today.
July 23, 2018
New Suit Filed to Stop Texas Probes of Trans-Supportive Families
In one of the families who sued, a trans teen attempted suicide after the governor ordered "child abuse" investigations of affirming parents.
June 9, 2022
Future Mom Talks About the Many Legal Hurdles to Being an LGBT Family
The Family Equality Council's director for public policy explains all the steps her family has had to go through to ensure the law can't ever tear them apart.
July 18, 2012
LGBTQ+ parents are rushing to adopt their children before Trump is sworn in
Attorneys have been inundated with requests for adoptions, a safeguard some queer families are using to make sure they retain parental rights to their nonbiological kids before a second Trump administration that may be hostile to LGBTQ+ people.
December 10, 2024
Wyoming bill could take trans kids from parents
House Bill 156 would define gender-affirming care to be "not in the best interest" of youth in the state. The bill affects guardianships, custody fights, and child protective services.
February 17, 2024