Illinois launches first-in-nation LGBTQ+ legal hotline
Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker has announced the launch of the nation's first-ever LGBTQ+ legal hotline.
August 22, 2025
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Texas Family Services in Turmoil Over Gender-Affirming Care Probes
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott issued a directive ordering child protective services to investigate parents who allow their trans children access to gender-affirming care, calling such care "child abuse."
September 5, 2022
Family planning and fertility services grind to halt in Alabama after devastating ruling
Family planning services in Alabama have been completely upended by an unprecedented and unscientific state Supreme Court ruling.
February 22, 2024
Pete Hegseth receives jeers from U.S. service members’ families at military base in Germany
The Defense secretary did not receive a warm welcome on his first foreign trip.
February 11, 2025
Does Hagel Know Service Members Still Lack Benefits?
Hagel commits to upholding benefits under "current law" and for "the families of all our service members," but LGBT families lack a laundry list of benefits.
January 15, 2013
Buttigieg Slams Trump Adoption Decision as 'Huge Step Backward'
The Republican administration said last week adoption services could refuse to place childen with rainbow families.
November 4, 2019
Texas Agency Aimed for Secrecy on Probes of Trans-Supportive Parents
Among other things, supervisors with the Department of Family and Protective Services ordered workers to avoid written communications about the matter.
August 31, 2022
Texas Social Workers Quit Over Abbott's Anti-Trans Investigative Order
Employees with the Department of Family and Protective Services are choosing to leave rather than investigate trans kids' supportive parents for child abuse.
April 11, 2022
Gay Mormon Group's Meeting With LDS Delayed
An August meeting between a gay Mormon support group and a social service agency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been indefinitely delayed. In a letter sent July 23, Fred C. Riley, the outgoing director of LDS Family Services, said the matter would best be handled by his successor, who hasn't been selected. LDS Family Services is an arm of the Salt Lake City-based denomination.
August 2, 2008
Texas Removes Access to Youth LGBTQ+ Suicide Hotline, Resource Page
The governor's office removed the page from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services website after the governor was criticized for promoting "transgender ideology."
October 13, 2021
WATCH: Sens. Udall and Gillibrand Grill Hagel on Gay and Lesbian Military Equality
The former Nebraska senator reiterated his commitment to fully implementing repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell,' including extending partner benefits to the families of gay and lesbian service members.
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January 31, 2013
Trump Signs Order But Drops 'License to Discriminate'
The order instead aims to expand political speech by churches and allow denial of family planning services, both of which are likely to negatively affect LGBT people -- and lays the groundwork for potential further discrimination.
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May 4, 2017
Pentagon Pressured to Revise Policies, Include Gay Military Spouses
In the wake of controversy surrounding the exclusion of a lesbian wife from an officers spouses' club, LGBT advocates are ramping up pressure on the Pentagon to revise guidelines across the military to prohibit discrimination against LGBT service members and their families.
January 17, 2013
Bush signs bill targeting Phelps's picketing at military funerals
Though many believe the law will be struck down, President Bush on Monday signed a measure that bans protests at the military funerals of fallen soldiers in an effort to prevent radical homophobe Fred Phelps from further upsetting families of service members.
May 30, 2006
Fertility Clinic Serving Trans People to Open Next Year in Pittsburgh
The clinic will help an underserved population and offer care at a lower cost than that of other providers, its founders say.
September 12, 2023
Judge approves settlement in landmark LGBTQ+ fertility case
Plaintiffs sued Aetna for what they said were LGBTQ+ fertility coverage disparities.
December 9, 2024
Italy passes even harsher ban against surrogacy, punishes seeking services abroad
The new law punishes those who travel outside the country to make surrogacy arrangements, even if they travel to places where the services are legal.
October 17, 2024
Transgender-Friendly Policy Implemented in New York Juvenile Jails
Transgender youth
in New York's juvenile detention centers are now
allowed to wear whatever uniform they choose, be called by
whatever name they want, and ask for special housing
under a new antidiscrimination policy drawing praise
from advocacy groups. ''New York is way ahead of the
curve,'' said Roberta Sklar, a spokeswoman for the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force. ''When you have a system
like the New York Office of Children and Family
Services putting out a clear nondiscrimination policy,
it should be seen as a model for similar kinds of agencies
all over the country.''
June 21, 2008
Marsha P. Johnson's family fights for trans legacy at Stonewall
“This is not just an erasure of words — it is an erasure of history," Johnson's cousin says of the removal of "transgender" and "queer" from the website for the Stonewall National Monument.
February 19, 2025
Biden Administration Looks to Protect LGBTQ+ Foster Kids With New Rule
The Department of Health and Human Services' proposed rule is in keeping with the Biden administration's promise to support LGBTQ+ youth.
September 28, 2023
Gay TikTok Influencers' Story of Love and Raising Twins Now a Book
During a time when books by LGBTQ+ authors are being banned, this book seeks to normalize families of different types who all share one thing: love.
April 8, 2023