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Decades in the making, the Equality Act has broad support in the House but will likely face opposition in the Senate, where it will need at least 10 Republicans to vote in favor of the bill.

So much progress has been made relatively quickly in recent years, but LGBT rights advocates have a list of areas where they’d still like to see more advancements for their cause.

The new directive, aimed at a 2020 Supreme Court ruling, comes in the waning moments of the Trump administration.

Yuval David, the director of Wonderfully Made - LGBTQ+R(eligion) explains why his upcoming film is sparking a nerve before its release.

Price, a lesbian, had the first column on LGBTQ+ issues to be nationally syndicated to mainstream outlets.

They were pushed out of their jobs for being gay.

As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard, the Weatherhead Institute for International Affairs hosted “Rethinking Resistance Politics in Troubling Times: Transnational Queer Solidarity During COVID-19,” an online panel discussing recent work examining the international situation.

The Proud Boys hashtag, which members of the far-right group have been using, was trending Sunday after gay men on Twitter hijacked it and flooded the feed with photos of their loved ones and families and with memes.

I realised that Joe and I shared our own gay culture the whole time we were married – we both loved the film Beaches

COVID-19 and AIDS are very different diseases. Still, there are eerie echoes of the destructive political bias that contributed to our AIDS failures, both in public health policy and in the activist community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Simmering cultural differences splitting Europe are flaring into an outright battle between the more conservative East and liberal West over issues of gender identity.

There’s an ongoing culture war within the queer community between those who advocate for public sex and those who believe it’s abhorrent.

A simultaneous un-coordinated shift in the symbol for the LGBT community is taking place due to an international focus on Black Lives Matters protests, vitriol in the UK press about trans lives, and the rainbow use for the NHS amid coronavirus.

The online matchmaker recently launched its first ad with a lesbian couple.

The team behind the first BAAITS Powwow sought to de-gender traditions and bring Two-Spirit people, those who do not identify within the gender binary, together. They did all of that and more.

I’m Noah Michelson and I’m from Racine, Wisconsin, which is a good place to go home to now but not a great place to grow up if you’re queer and especially in the 80s. And I was the queerest kid that I’ve ever met that I think anyone has ever met. I came out of the womb, ready to go. And not just queer but also super sexual and I don’t really know where that came from. And I don’t think anyone really does. And when I say that, my first memories and my first urges and desires were wanting to have sex with men. I had crushes on Mr. Rogers, I had a crush on Jesus, any kind of masculine figure in my life, I wanted to have sex with them.

The legislation allows Prime Minister Viktor Orban to further consolidate power while eroding civil liberties. It also makes it harder to scrutinize how the government spends public funds.

The couple norm has proved tenacious in the face of enormous social changes. But increasingly, people are challenging it, says psychotherapist Sasha Roseneil

The pandemic is taking away a celebration that, for generations, has given LGBTQ people a chance to dress however they please, and be whomever they want.

The Proud Boys, a far-right hate group, are enjoying increased attention thanks to President Trump. Gay Twitter users attempted to seize the spotlight from them, much to their dislike.

Star Trek star George Takei appears to have started the online campaign to reclaim the label Proud Boys from the far-right group.

‘The Closest Profiles Are Miles Away’ - Finding love is hard. Finding love as a 30-year-old gay man living in his parents’ basement on an Iowa dairy farm during a pandemic is impossible. Lying in darkness in a room with cement walls, I hear my parents upstairs. Last year they celebrated 40 years of marriage. Before my grandparents died, they celebrated 52. Should I download Grindr again? For the rural gays, that’s the best place to meet. But the closest profiles are miles away and they’re usually closeted married men. So I stay away. Lonely on acres of land, I dream of connection. — Jordon Deutmeyer

Filmmaker Rachel Mason, whose Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary “Circus of Books” explores her parents’ gay porn shop, writes about why we need to respect sex workers.

Queer Appalachia highlights important social issues affecting a vulnerable region — and collects donations from followers.

A report out Tuesday reveals an eye-opening fact: Nearly 1 in 3 LGBTQ people, or 32%, call the South their home. And the area is transforming, led by LGBTQ Southerners of color who are devising unique ways to build communities and uplift lives.