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“It’s deeply troubling to see someone who has benefited from civil rights protections turn around and try to strip them from others,” Rep. Ritchie Torres said.
They rallied to bring the 31-year-old makeup artist back from CECOT in El Salvador.
Alina Habba, the former personal attorney for Donald Trump, brought federal criminal charges against New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver.
U.S. Rep. Mark Takano and others sent a pointed letter to VA Secretary Doug Collins.
Trans, nonbinary, and intersex people deserve passports that reflect their identity, the representatives say.
In some good news coming out of November's election, at least 495 LGBTQ+ candidates won their races.
“They’re going to try and do things in committees to tack on horrible riders to target our community, and we are planning to meet these attacks with strength and strategy,” he said.
Republicans are stripping those who served their country of medical care.
“House Democrats will always stand with the LGBTQ community — including our transgender fellow Americans,” Hakeem Jeffries said.
Alabama GOP Rep. Barry Moore wants to enshrine discrimination against transgender people into federal law.
With LGBTQ+ rights under attack by the Trump administration and Republican-led states, Democrats say the Equality Act is more urgent than ever.
The RuPaul’s Drag Race winner will play host to Washington, D.C.’s political class during the year’s largest LGBTQ+ celebration.
Mark Takano, Becca Balint, Julie Johnson, and Sarah McBride have spoken about it.
From Sarah McBride to Tammy Baldwin, here are the queer lawmakers in the 119th Congress.
Under Trump, EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has deprioritized or scrapped complaints of discrimination against transgender and nonbinary people.
“This is just another attempt by extremist Republican politicians to further their anti-transgender agenda,” U.S. Rep. Mark Takano said.
The EqualityPAC fundraiser will be held on June 4 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
Republicans are advancing a "cruel reconciliation bill," Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano says.
The two were recognized as allies to the LGBTQ+ community.
The U.S. government is turning its back on those who served, retired Army Staff Sgt. Alleria Stanley told The Advocate.
U.S. Reps. Mark Takano, Jamie Raskin, and Gerry Connolly sent a strongly worded letter to the Office of Personnel Management, saying that implementing Trump's "two sexes" executive order would violate the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent.
