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Librarians Grapple With Conservatives’ Latest Efforts to Ban Books
By Olivia B. Waxman
Twitter Suspends Lawmaker for Misgendering Biden Appointee
By Bill Allison / Bloomberg
Kiyoshi Kuromiya Helped AIDS Patients Get Life-Saving Info
By Olivia B. Waxman
Lawsuit: Biden Administration Foster Program Rejected Woman for Being Gay
By Madeleine Carlisle
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Barney Frank Looks Back—And Forward—After Decades of LGBTQ Advocacy
In 1987, Congressman Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts, made history when he told the Boston Globe, “If you ask the direct question: 'Are you gay?' The answer is yes. So what?” The interview made...
By Madeleine Carlisle
October 19, 2021
Jamey Rodemeyer's Parents Reflect a Decade After His Death
TIME spoke with the Rodemeyers ahead of the ten year anniversary of Jamey’s death about their son’s life and legacy, and the progress yet to be made.
By Madeleine Carlisle
September 17, 2021
'A Queer Tax.' New Lawsuit Alleges Aetna Discriminates Against LGBTQ People Seeking Fertility Treatment
When Emma Goidel was denied coverage for her fertility treatments in September 2020, she was furious. A 31-year-old writer in New York City, Goidel and her partner were excited to try for a baby—and Goidel...
By Madeleine Carlisle
September 14, 2021
차별금지법과 평등한 세상을 향한 한국 성소수자들의 소망
This article can be read in English here. 서울에 살고 있는 박에디씨에겐 가장 기본적인 서비스를 받는 것 조차 어려움 투성이다. 그가 트랜스젠더라는 것이 공문서 상에 반영되지 않아 그의 정체성은 끊임없이 질문의 대상이 되기 때문이다. 성소수자청소년위기지원센터...
By Sungsub Billy Choo / Seoul
September 13, 2021
LGBTQ Koreans Eager for Anti-Discrimination Bill
South Korea could be about to pass anti-discrimination legislation, but for queer Koreans the fight is far from won.
By Sungsub Billy Choo / Seoul
September 13, 2021
‘Expect a Legal Challenge.’ Ouster of Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David Steeped in Controversy
Alphonso David was fired from his role as president of Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Monday night, just a month after the board had elected to extend his contract as leader of the powerful advocacy group—and...
By Madeleine Carlisle
September 7, 2021
How One Nonprofit Is Attempting to Help LGBTQ Refugees Fleeing Afghanistan
Thousands of people have attempted to flee Afghanistan this week as Taliban forces gained control of the country, culminating in the capital city of Kabul on Aug. 15. At least 400,000 Afghans have been forcibly...
By Madeleine Carlisle
August 18, 2021
A New Documentary Tells the Harrowing History of Conversion Therapy
Director Kristine Stolakis speaks with TIME about her new documentary 'Pray Away'
By Alex Rees
August 9, 2021
‘Our Opponents Are Getting Desperate.’ Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David on the Ongoing Fight for LGBTQ Rights
Alphonso David has been busy. The civil rights attorney became the eighth leader of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the world’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, just six months before the COVID-19 pandemic struck the...
By Madeleine Carlisle
August 4, 2021
Arkansas Transgender Health Care Ban Temporarily Halted
A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Arkansas law that bans transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming health care
By Madeleine Carlisle
July 21, 2021
Hungary’s Orban Proposes Referendum to Push Back Against E.U. on LGBTQ Law
Hungary's recent anti-LGBTQ law has sparked a furious reaction in the EU, including calls to cut off the nation’s funding
By Zoltan Simon / Bloomberg
July 21, 2021
‘A Serious, Violent Incident.’ Promotion of an ‘Anti-Trans’ Paperback Stirs Criticism of Amazon, American Booksellers Association
The American Booksellers Association apologized on Wednesday for including what the nonprofit trade organization described as “an anti-trans book” in a recent promotional shipment to members. “This is a serious, violent incident that goes against...
By Madeleine Carlisle
July 15, 2021
‘I Couldn’t Keep Putting Myself on Hold.’ In Missing Out on the Tokyo Olympics, Skateboarder Leo Baker Found Himself
“When I was very young, I was like, 'oh, I'm a boy. I just am,'” Leo Baker recalls of his childhood. For years, Baker tells TIME, he put questions about his gender on hold as...
By Leo Baker
July 15, 2021
Survey: 1 in 4 LGBTQ Youth Identifies As Nonbinary
Ahead of International Nonbinary People’s Day on July 14, new research released Monday by the LGBTQ mental health nonprofit the Trevor Project found that over one in four (26%) LGBTQ youth identified as nonbinary. An...
By Madeleine Carlisle
July 12, 2021
'Stories Can Be War.' How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Viral Essay Has Implications Far Beyond the Literary World
Last month, the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie self-published a personal essay that went so viral it briefly crashed her website. The piece, titled “It Is Obscene: A True Reflection in Three Parts,” addressed social media...
By Annabel Gutterman
July 1, 2021
Christian Colleges Must Do Better to Support LGBTQ Students
As a queer person of faith born and raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, I have only ever attended Christian educational institutions. I am a graduate of Andrews University, the Church’s flagship school in Berrien...
By Eliel Cruz
July 1, 2021
‘Here We Can Express Ourselves With Freedom.’ In Puerto Rico, A Trans Collective Is Reimagining Family Values
Among the rocks of their Caribbean archipelago, a group of trans artists and creatives in Puerto Rico have found their safe port. It is a harbor offering them safety and affirmation amid choppy waters. Both...
By Alejandra Rosa
June 29, 2021
Supreme Court Upholds Landmark Transgender Bathroom Ruling
On Monday SCOTUS declined to hear an appeal to a decision requiring a Virginia high school let a transgender boy use the boys restroom
By Madeleine Carlisle
June 28, 2021
Watch PRIDE: A TIME Summit
On June 25, 2021—in celebration of Pride Month—TIME hosted its second-annual virtual Pride Summit, convening leaders, activists and artists to share their insights on identity and creativity, as well as the path toward equality for...
By TIME Staff
June 25, 2021
Meet the Chinese Ex-Cop Creating a Global LGBTQ+ Community
How a gay lifestyle blog, run in secret by a Chinese policeman, morphed into an app with 63 million LGBTQ members worldwide
By Charlie Campbell / Beijing
June 24, 2021
Changing the Game's Andraya Yearwood on Fighting to Compete
2021 will go down as one of the worst years for LGBTQ rights across the U.S. in recent history. Over the past six months alone, over 250 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced into state legislatures...
By Madeleine Carlisle
June 10, 2021
Not Enough Has Changed for Transgender People Under Biden
“No matter the result of this election, white supremacy will endure, patriarchy will endure, classism will endure, homophobia will endure, transphobia will endure, and more. Make sure your commitment to ending these systems of oppression...
By Raquel Willis
June 2, 2021
The Most Powerful Court in the U.S. Is About to Decide the Fate of the Most Vulnerable Children
When child custody cases come before family courts, judges endeavor to base their rulings on the best interests of the child. Overall, the court is less interested in which parent might have the most right...
By Madeleine Carlisle
May 28, 2021
Why the Senate Needs to Pass the Equality Act
It’s been just over 40 years since the assassination of Harvey Milk, the trailblazing gay activist who became one of the country’s first out LGBTQ public officials when he was elected to the San Francisco...
By Rosemary Ketchum
May 21, 2021
A New Crowdsourcing App Hopes to Serve as the 'Green Book' for LGBTQ People of Color
As Black Americans prepared to travel in Jim Crow-era America, they might have consulted the Green Book—an extensive travel guide of hotels, restaurants, gas stations and more that welcomed Black customers. The guide, which published...
By Madeleine Carlisle
May 18, 2021
Protesters Demanded Justice for Nina Pop. A Year After Her Death, What Happened to Everyone Saying Black Trans Lives Matter?
Someone recently asked me if I was hopeful for the direction of the movement to protect and defend Black transgender people’s lives. “No,” I answered bluntly. I continue to be disappointed by the lack of...
By Elle Moxley
May 3, 2021
Saying You Support Trans Rights Isn't Enough
Growing up, my best friend wore extensions in his hair, blue braids swinging down to his hips. He wore short leather skirts and platform boots. He bought me a fishnet top when I was 14...
By Emme Lund
April 1, 2021
Raquel Willis on Her Open Letter to Protect Trans Women
This year, lawmakers have thrust trans youth into the center of the culture wars. In the midst of a pandemic, when economic and health concerns are urgent, legislators in at least 28 states have introduced...
By Eliana Dockterman
March 31, 2021
What Asia's LGBTQ+ Movement Can Learn From Japan
Japan's LGBTQ+ movement offers a lesson into how queer activism can flourish in socially conservative East Asian societies
By Brian Wong
March 30, 2021
Queer Nigerians Find Bigotry on Clubhouse
Has the world’s hottest networking app become a hostile place for the LGBTQ+ community before it even fully launches?
By Nelson C.J / Lagos
February 26, 2021
What LGBTQ Lawmakers Want to See From Biden
In the 2020 elections, 334 openly LGBTQ candidates won office; the highest ever in any election year
By Suyin Haynes
January 1, 2021
Homophobia Is Not an Asian Value
Intolerance of same-sex relationships is a colonial Western attitude that Asia must shake off as it matures in the 21st century
By Brian Wong
December 17, 2020
Russian Activists Scored an Important LGBTQ Rights Victory
Under mounting pressure, Russia's parliament withdrew a bill that would have ended the legal recognition of transgender people
By Madeline Roache
December 2, 2020
For Trans People Worldwide, The Last Year Was One of the Deadliest on Record. But the Community Has a Long History of Resilience
For Viviane Vergueiro Simakawa, Nov. 20—this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance—is about imagining futures for the transgender and gender-diverse community as much as it is about mourning and remembering lives that have been lost. The...
By Suyin Haynes
November 20, 2020
What's Next for Trans Rights in the U.K.?
The U.K. government published its long-awaited response to a public debate over the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) Tuesday, prompting mixed reactions from LGBT and trans-inclusive charities. The GRA has been at the center of headlines—and...
By Suyin Haynes
September 22, 2020
Authors Respond to J.K. Rowling’s New Novel
The last 48 hours have been full of conflicting emotions for Marieke Nijkamp. A New York Times bestselling author, Nijkamp’s new novel, a YA thriller titled Even If We Break, was published Tuesday. It’s Nijkamp’s...
By Suyin Haynes
September 15, 2020
Trans Women Are Women. It's Time to Move Past Harmful Debate
In recent weeks, my DMs have been flooded with messages from well-meaning acquaintances, many asking precisely what was transphobic about J.K. Rowling’s self-published essay, "TERF Wars." (In summary: a lot.) "TERF Wars" was, coincidentally, the...
By Juno Dawson
July 10, 2020
Report: Jail Officials Placed Layleen Polanco in Solitary Confinement Despite Health Concerns, Failed in Duty of Care
Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco, a 27-year-old transgender woman who died in June 2019 while incarcerated at Rikers Island, was not housed in an area of the jail that was appropriately suited to her mental and physical...
By Mahita Gajanan
June 24, 2020
Two New York Dems Poised to Be First Black Gay Congressmen
Two Democratic candidates appear poised to become the first openly gay Black members of Congress. The final results of Tuesday’s Democratic primary in New York aren’t all in yet, as a large number of New...
By Madeleine Carlisle
June 24, 2020
Two Black Trans Women Killed in the Past Week
Transgender women of color — particularly Black transgender women — are disproportionately affected by fatal violence
By Madeleine Carlisle
June 13, 2020
Costa Rica Becomes First Central American Country to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
The first same-sex weddings have taken place in Costa Rica, after a landmark court ruling came into effect at midnight. While activists' plans for a national celebration had to be postponed due to the coronavirus...
By Suyin Haynes
May 26, 2020
Outbreak Shines Unwelcome Light on South Korea's LGBTQ
South Korea's efforts to track and trace everyone potentially exposed in Seoul's discreet LGBTQ haven is sparking a surge in homophobia
By Steven Borowiec / Seoul
May 14, 2020
Trans Activist Aimee Stephens Dies at 59
“It’s not just for myself, but it’s also for all the other trans people in the world"
By Madeleine Carlisle
May 12, 2020
Students Protest Mormon Church's 'Explicitly Homophobic' Ruling on Brigham Young University's Honor Code
The Mormon church teaches that while experiencing same-sex attraction is not a sin, having same-sex sexual relations is
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 5, 2020
Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade on Supporting Zaya
There’s an old-school mentality for parents, especially if you play basketball, that when your son is born, he’s going to follow in your footsteps. Zaire, who’s now 18 and a key player for one of...
By Dwyane Wade
February 20, 2020
As More States Require Schools to Teach LGBTQ History, Resources for Teachers Expand
The news aggregator Newsela, which brings together news articles and primary sources for classroom use, has announced the launch of the Newsela LGBTQIA+ Studies Collection
By Olivia B. Waxman
December 13, 2019
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