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Most Black women don't have access to abortion, and they're going to impact the elections

Out of the 11.8 million Black women between the ages of 15 and 49 in the U.S., 57 percent live in areas that restrict access to abortion.

Ivanka Trump Proves Once Again She's No Champion for Women in the Workplace

The first daughter backed the Trump administration's halting of a rule for transparency on equal pay. 

We Won't Be Censored by Trump, the CDC, or Anyone

Politicians and religious leaders have tried to erase LGBT people for centuries. We're not going away, writes the Task Force's Megan Maury.

Obamas Power Gays

Two years after Dobbs, the White House warns of Republican assaults on Americans' bodily autonomy

Democrats are reminding Americans that Republicans and the conservative U.S. Supreme Court stripped them of their previously held rights to reproductive access. Now other bodily autonomy rights could be next.

The Queer Tax on LGBTQ+ Women Who Partner With Women

Fighting back against the added living expenses queer women are forced to endure.

Intersectional Women's Organization Aims to Mobilize the Majority

"Women are mad as hell, we are ready to take action, and we refuse to go backward," says Black Lives Matter's Alicia Garza, cofounder of the new group Supermajority.

Female Couple Is First to Wed After Austria Gets Marriage Equality

Marriage equality became the law of the land as of January 1 in Austria, and a couple of women took advantage and wed just after midnight.
 

Log Cabin Republicans lambastes Bush over marriage amendment

In an open letter released Monday morning, the head of the Log Cabin Republicans takes President Bush to task for supporting the proposed federal marriage amendment, which the U.S. Senate begins debating today.

Episcopal Conservative Groups Planning North American Partnership

A leading Episcopal conservative announced plans for a partnership Friday that aims to create an alternative to the liberal-leaning Episcopal Church. Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh (pictured), whose diocese is considering breaking away from the national denomination, said the group will be called the Common Cause Partnership.

Texas Set to Send First Latinas From State to Congress

Democrats Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia won theit primaries Tuesday and are favored to win in November.

$20M Global Effort to Aid Trans Activists and Causes

The Arcus Foundation and NoVo Foundation announced a five-year funding project aimed at supporting trans people in the U.S. and in developing nations.

California diocese snubs Episcopal Church over ordination of gays, women

In a public rebuke of the Episcopal Church, a conservative California diocese voted Saturday to affirm its membership in the worldwide Anglican Communion after distancing itself from the national church over the ordination of gays and women.

The long road ahead

Fifty years after Brown v. the Board of Education, people forget that most victories in the fight for racial equality came after that court decision outlawing segregation. For gays and lesbians, it's time to steel ourselves for the decades of work we still have to do to achieve equality.

How Oregon Suddenly Changed Bisexual Visibility

Oregon's Kate Brown and the sudden change in bisexual visibility.

How the Sharing Economy Can Support LGBT Seniors

Airbnb wants to help queer elders supplement their income and make connections that will help them stay healthy and fulfilled.

Rising Anti-LGBTQ+ Bigotry Spurs European Union to Action

The E.U. releases its first LGBTQ+ equality plan as Poland and Hungary embrace homophobia and transphobia.

OpEd Lesbians Like to Fuck Too

Lesbians and bisexual women have a different and complicated relationship to sex and relationships.