Virginia Library to Remain Open After County Leaders Resolve LGBTQ+ Book Spat
The agreement scripts a fresh chapter in Samuels Public Library’s LGBTQ+ books saga.
October 7, 2023
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Virginia Library Temporarily Avoids Closing Over LGBTQ+ Books Controversy
A temporary lifeline for Samuels Public Library fuels a broader struggle over free speech, discrimination, and community values as residents and officials clash over LGBTQ+ books.
September 21, 2023
This Small Virginia Town Could Lose Its Library Over LGBTQ+ Book Brawl
Some conservative parents are claiming books with LGBTQ+ themes are essentially pornography.
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September 6, 2023
Virginia Mom Gives Impassioned Defense of LGBTQ+ Library Books: Video
This is the type of allyship that deserves a standing ovation.
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September 7, 2023
Pennsylvania Library Director Resigns After Board Removes Issues of 'Out,' the LGBTQ+ Magazine
Justin Brown quit working for the Northern Cambria Public Library following a heated debate with the library board over the unilateral removal of Out, sparking discussions on censorship and representation in public libraries.
December 11, 2023
U.K. Far-Right Takes Lesson from U.S. Protests Against Drag Queens
(CNN) -- Covid-19 conspiracists and far-right supporters lobbed homophobic and transphobic slurs at parents and children to try to stop the kids from meeting drag queens.
August 5, 2022
Nominee Alito once supported antidiscrimination laws for gays
As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Bush's latest pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, chaired a task force that recommended the decriminalization of sodomy and said discrimination against gays in hiring "should be forbidden."
November 3, 2005
New Archive Shows Real History of LGBT-Led Families
The Family Equality Council and Yale University have partnered to create an interactive timeline, and Yale is preserving an archive of materials on the LGBT family equality movement.
October 15, 2013
The Religious Freedom Argument Is a Sham
We must continuously challenge the idea that we are the aggressors in the current culture wars.
August 1, 2016
People of the Year: Anthony & the Supremes
While Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy deserves special notice for his poetic opinion for the majority, it was the entire court’s role in marriage equality that had the greatest impact on LGBT lives in 2015.
November 5, 2015
The country did a complete 180 on a once-divisive issue starting 20 years ago
The vast majority of Americans opposed same-sex marriage on May 17, 2004, when the first same-sex couples took their vows after a court decision in Massachusetts. Well, times have changed.
May 17, 2024
The Crime of Being Positive
In the 1980s corporations, conservatives, and fear turned HIV-positive people into outlaws.
April 1, 2013
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart's Relationship Explained
Garry O'Connor explores the fascinating friendship in his new book, Ian McKellen: A Biography. Read an exclusive excerpt below.
December 30, 2019
Op-ed: How Bradley Manning Changed Fate of Whistleblowers
Soldier Bradley Manning now faces up to 136 years in prison for espionage charges.
July 31, 2013
Why These Four Justices Rejected Marriage Equality
Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, see today's landmark ruling for marriage equality as a dangerous thing.
June 26, 2015
Mean Girls’ Reneé Rapp confirms if her Regina George is queer
The musical movie version of Mean Girls centers queer kids Damian and Janis. But Rapp, the bisexual actress who plays the head of the plastics, Regina George, offers some insight into how she perceives the character.
January 10, 2024
This Black Trans Man Is in Prison for Killing His Rapist
Ky Peterson, a black trans man from Georgia, has been imprisoned three years for the 'involuntary manslaughter' of his attacker, which he says was in self-defense.
April 8, 2015
Lambda Literary Award Finalists You Must Read
In celebration of the 2013 finalists, we review five nominated works of LGBT literature that should be at the top of you must-read list.
March 7, 2013
3 Reasons This Antigay Lawyer Thinks He'll Win
One of the lawyers representing the anti-LGBT side is set on winning votes from justices Kennedy, Roberts and Breyer. Here's why.
April 29, 2015
Janet Mock on Why DeRay Mckesson Matters
The Black Lives Matter movement has many leaders but only one recognizable face. DeRay Mckesson gets candid on love and leadership, politics and protest -- and his plans for Baltimore's future.
February 25, 2016
26 of the Best LGBTQ Novels We Discovered This Year
They had us discovering queer romance in Israel, Greenland, France, and our own backyards.
December 24, 2019