A new survey finds LGBTQ young people report high rates of bullying, anxiety and attempted suicide amid a landscape of poor access to mental health.

At the moment there are nine LGBTQ members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Come 2025, gay Congressmember Mark Takano (D-Riverside) expects to see a doubling of out representation in the chamber

Targeting issues about sexual orientation and gender identity, Florida joined three other states Monday in filing a federal lawsuit challenging a new Biden administration rule about sex-based discrimination in education programs.

Staff at the Smithsonian Institution are concerned about the future of LGBTQ programming as several events featuring a drag performer were cancelled or postponed following scrutiny by House Republicans

More than one in five Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQ+

The effects of personal religious belief are everywhere in politics, from the rallying sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Christian nationalists citing biblical justice when Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Rewritten measures fail to gain notice in House as session ends

Utah teachers will be free to display LGBTQ+ Pride flags and other social, political or religious imagery after the state House blocked a bill on Monday that would have banned teachers from using their position to promote or disparage certain beliefs.

Valentina Gomez, who is running for Missouri secretary of state, lit two books on fire, including an LGBTQ guide for teens and a sex education book.

‘Many Americans [are] reporting they would prefer to live in a place with laws that align with their own views,’ real-estate brokerage says

The legislation, House Study Bill 649, introduced Thursday, creates a new section of code defining a person’s sex as their sex assigned at birth.

Number and scope of bills set to break records

One of his most Machiavellian acts involved the surprise transportation of migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, using Florida tax dollars.

A group of Florida teachers, students and activists will address the United Nations in Switzerland this week over what they call the “authoritarian experiment” in the state.
The group of five will share testimonies of what it’s like living in Florida under new laws that they say target Black, brown, and LGBTQ people and immigrants.
Those laws include the Parental Rights in Education law, Stop Woke Act, Florida’s anti-riot law, and Florida’s new immigration law.

A federal appeals court said an anti-drag law signed by Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis this year can’t be enforced. Hamburger Mary’s, an Orlando restaurant that hosts a drag brunch weekly, challenged the law claiming it violates businesses' First Amendment rights. U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell struck down the law in June.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) attempt to make the New College of Florida a rightwing indoctrination institution appears to be failing as the school has reported 27% of its student body has dropped out.
The college reported that it doubled its normal rate of loss of first-year students between fall semesters this year, giving it the worst student retention rate in the public college’s history at just 64.9%

In what lawmakers have called an unprecedented move, House Republicans introduced and moved a last-minute amendment stripping three community projects of funding as part of a committee markup for the 2024 Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development spending bill. Of the 2,680 projects previously approved, these three all serve the LGBTQ+ community.

LGBTQ advocates have racked up a string of wins as they challenge bans on gender-transition care for minors, trans sports laws and restrictions on drag shows.

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration announced on Monday a campaign to place Pride-themed billboards — complete with images of LGBTQ couples photographed in Massachusetts — along highways in the Texas and Florida- two Republican-led states.

Congressional Democrats on June 26th reignited an effort to pass federal legislation outlawing the discredited practice of “conversion therapy,” which is a scientifically discredited practice that aims to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Finally some good news: Justice has been served (with a side of fries), at least for now.
Hamburger Mary’s, the queer-centered burger chain that often features drag performances, has won a court victory against Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his ban on all-ages drag shows, which he signed into law in May.

In conjunction with Pride month celebrations across the country, Biden announced a new community safety partnership led by the Department of Homeland Security to protect LGBTQ Americans.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization — officially declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the United States for the first time in its more than 40-year history, following an unprecedented and dangerous spike in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative assaults sweeping state houses this year

The increase in anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced and enacted over the last five years shows how the GOP has made LGBTQ+ issues central to its party agenda. And while many of these restrictions are unpopular at the national level, polling shows that specific anti-LGBTQ+ policies often have support from Republican voters in these states, encouraging lawmakers to keep continuing down this road.

Hamburger Mary’s in Orlando is suing Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida in federal court, claiming the restaurant has been deprived of its First Amendment rights and is already losing customers under a new law affecting drag shows.

Due to the current political climate in Florida, Tampa Pride is canceling its annual Pride on the River event. The decision came Wednesday after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 1438, which holds businesses accountable ”if the establishment admits a child to an adult live performance.”

A Florida teacher under a state investigation for showing a Disney movie featuring a gay character said she wasn’t aware the state’s controversial law banning instruction about certain LGBTQ topics had been recently expanded to apply to her grade level.

The parents of three transgender children in Florida are trying to get a federal judge to block a new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors, a signature policy of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as he nears his presidential campaign.

The Florida Board of Education has voted to expand restrictions on classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity. "This amendment prohibits classroom instruction to students in pre-kindergarten through Grade 3 on sexual orientation or gender identity. For Grades 4 through 12, instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity is prohibited unless such instruction is either expressly required by state academic standards ... or is part of a reproductive health course or health lesson for which a student’s parent has the option to have his or her student not attend," according to the amendment.

The main goal of the legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis is to ensure people in surrounding states and beyond can go to Colorado to have an abortion, begin puberty blockers or receive gender-affirming surgery without fear of prosecution.

The Minnesota Senate Friday passed a trio of proposals aimed at legally safeguarding people who come to Minnesota for abortion and gender-affirming care and outlawing what’s called conversion therapy for minors.

A new map produced by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) offers a snapshot of where LGBTQ+ education is under assault, and where other states are fighting back with laws explicitly requiring schools to include LGBTQ+ curricula.

A bill poised to pass the Florida Senate could put LGBTQ Pride festivals in the crosshairs of a push by Republican lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis to block children from attending drag shows.
The amendment filed Tuesday evening by Sen. Clay Yarborough expanded the scope of Senate Bill 1438, banning cities, counties and other governments from issuing permits for events that feature such performances.

On International Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31), hundreds of students from across Florida descended on the Capitol to protest the legislature’s fast-tracking of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ agenda of book banning and classroom censorship and assaults on academic and medical freedom.

Students, parents and college counselors say some LGBTQ youth are choosing not to attend colleges in states that have passed legislation targeting their rights.

Bills similar to Florida’s controversial legislation that bans certain instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools are being considered in at least 15 states. Some of the bills go further than the Florida law, dubbed by its critics as “Don’t Say Gay,” which sparked a furious nationwide discussion about LGBTQ rights, education policy and parental involvement in the classroom.

Author Judy Blume has slammed Florida governor Ron DeSantis over attempts to censor education in the state, describing the current political climate to “the 1980s on steroids”.

On March 21, Uganda's parliament passed a bill that would criminalise identifying as LGBTQ and compels citizens to report those who do to authorities.

At least 417 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the United States since the start of the year

A federal judge in Texas ruled that books removed from public libraries, many because of their LGBTQ and racial content, must be placed back onto shelves immediately.

Florida lawmakers have drafted legislation to ban drag show performances if children might see them in restaurants, bars, or other venues. Should the bill pass, businesses that violate the proposed rules would risk their license to operate.

The legislation would eliminate entire majors and courses at the state’s publicly funded universities, prohibit universities from supporting programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion among other topics.

A bill filed in the Florida Senate would assert legislative intent in bathrooms and locker rooms, restricting usage of single-sex facilities to genders assigned at birth.

A horrifying new bill out of Florida would allow the state to remove trans children from their parents’ custody if they are receiving gender-affirming medical care.

Florida lawmakers filed legislation to ban changing the listed sex on a birth certificate and prohibiting a state agency, political subdivision, public postsecondary institution, or person providing services to the various groups from paying for, or reimbursing, gender reassignment treatments.

HB 1223, filed earlier this week, would completely prohibit classroom instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation all the way from PreK up to 8th grade. That’s an expansion often the current prohibitions banning on LGBTQ+ instruction from kindergarten through 3rd grade as well as limitations for older grades.

Florida lawmakers are considering expanding provisions of Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” law, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, to apply to students in fourth, fifth and sixth grade

More than half of LGBTQ parents in Florida are considering moving their families to another state over concerns that a new Florida education law – known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law – stigmatizes LGBTQ identities and creates a hostile learning environment for LGBTQ children or students with LGBTQ family members.

Plaintiffs challenging a Florida law restricting instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools...

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