Human Rights Campaign initiative strives to overcome HIV stigma
A groundbreaking new cohort of participants will soon travel to the nation’s capital to tackle shame and mental health challenges associated with HIV.
June 27, 2024
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Gavin Newsom cut LGBTQ+ health funding. The CA legislature is set to restore $40 million
Newsom eliminated funds for health programs centered around LGBTQ+ youth, women, and transgender people last month.
June 13, 2025
Republicans Attempt to Hijack Defense Bill With Anti-Transgender Amendments
Far-right lawmakers want to use the bill to target access to abortion, gender-affirming care, and more in the military.
July 13, 2023
Who Is Fighting the Economic Oppression of LGBTQI+ People?
Having a decent livelihood and freedom from discrimination are human rights for all people.
May 17, 2021
Rachel Levine led fights against HIV & STIs at HHS. Now Trump’s undoing that progress, and she’s speaking out
The former assistant secretary for health is breaking her silence on the damage Trump's HHS is doing.
May 13, 2025
HRC Cannot Be Trusted Until It Answers for Alphonso David Firing
In this op-ed, Duane Cramer lays out how the Human Rights Campaign's painful history connects to the recent firing.
October 14, 2021
A second Trump term would double down on erasing transgender rights. Here’s how advocates are preparing.
“We’ve seen over the last several years a militant effort in red states by the government to discriminate against trans folks, in particular, and the broader LGBTQ community, and even to go so far as to try to deny trans people's existence,” said Mike Zamore, national director of policy and governmental affairs at the ACLU.
June 16, 2024
Monkeypox Cases Are Down Nationally but Up in Communities of Color
The White House announced a new program aimed at reaching communities of color with education, vaccination, and treatment of monkeypox in order to ensure health care access equity.
September 15, 2022
Heritage Foundation cofounder Edwin Feulner dead at 83
The Heritage Foundation announced cofounder Edwin Feulner's passing Friday, though it did not reveal the time or cause of death.
July 22, 2025
Project 2025 vowed to roll back LGBTQ+ rights. Here's everything Trump has done so far
Donald Trump claimed on the campaign trail that he had "nothing to do" with Project 2025 — but now that he's in office, he's implementing it.
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May 6, 2025
DOGE is gone, leaving behind 300,000 fired federal workers, 600,000 USAID deaths, and more
Here's everything DOGE did that affected the LGBTQ+ community at home and abroad.
November 24, 2025
Amazon removes 'equity for Black people' and 'LGBTQ+ rights' from company policies
Amazon has quietly removed protections for Black and LGBTQ+ workers from its company policies.
January 13, 2025
U.S. Health and Human Services' Dr. Rachel Levine Never Sleeps
The history-making secretary is busy working on the ongoing pandemic, health equity, addiction and mental health, and the implications of climate change.
October 8, 2021
Biden Names Adrian Shanker as Senior Adviser on LGBTQI+ Health Equity
Shanker, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ and HIV-positive Americans, will work in the office of the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services.
October 4, 2022
What is Project 2025 and what does it mean for LGBTQ+ Americans?
Far-right activists have put together a series of directives for the next conservative president. Here's what it would mean to the LGBTQ+ community.
June 21, 2024
Why LGBTQ+ groups are angry at RFK Jr.'s confirmation
Kennedy has denied that he ever said chemicals cause gender dysphoria or that HIV doesn't cause AIDS — but he did.
February 14, 2025
The Cost of Inaction on PEPFAR, the AIDS Relief Program That's Saved Millions
Leaders of Partners In Health, the international public health nonprofit, write about the danger of not funding PEPFAR, a program that's saved 25 million lives and prevented millions of HIV infections.
November 6, 2023
Weekend Monkeypox Vaccination Clinics Announced by White House
Visitors to large LGBTQ+ events in several major cities this holiday weekend will be able to get a monkeypox vaccine onsite.
August 31, 2022
Maryland Governor Signs Bill Assuring Medicaid Coverage of Gender-Affirming Care
Gov. Wes Moore also signed legislation protecting abortion rights.
May 4, 2023
Trump poised to make LGBTQ+ nonprofit workers ineligible for student loan forgiveness
Trump's plan to gut the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program is expected to disproportionately impact LGBTQ+ people.
July 14, 2025
The Collateral Damage of Trump’s Global Gag Rule: LGBT Rights
As the administration takes aim at reproductive services across the globe, all kinds of people suffer.
June 5, 2018