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Few states collect sexual orientation or gender identity data, so no one knows how many people in some communities are getting vaccinated.

At least 28 state legislatures are weighing measures that would bar transgender youth from participating in sports or receiving medical treatment. Some have already been passed.

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.

The Supreme Court ensured workplace protections for gay and transgender Americans, but all told, Monday was a draw for equal rights.

Advocates were mobilizing LGBTQ people everywhere for the 2020 census. Then the coronavirus pandemic erupted.

For many people, LGBTQ community centers can be crucial lifeline. As such, centers across the country have worked at astonishingly fast rates to convert their operations into robust virtual communities.

A new study reveals members of the LGBT community in a majority of states experience higher rates of poverty than their straight, cisgender neighbors.

More than two-thirds of Americans say they would be likely to dole out their dollars at businesses that take a public stand for LGBTQ equality, a survey released Wednesday shows.

Ms. Reid, an MSNBC host who apologized in December for old anti-gay posts, said newly surfaced writings were “manipulated” by “an unknown, external party.”

At least 1,056 hate crimes were committed last year in nation’s nine largest cities, an increase of 18 percent from 2016 levels, according to police data

Among the dozens of prominent Americans entangled in sexual-misconduct cases this year are a modest number of men whose accusers are male. For some LGBT civic leaders, dismay over these cases is mixed with relief and even a trace of pride at how they were addressed.

The rainbow flag Trump held upside down at a campaign rally was an appositely perverse precursor to a year of attacks on LGBT people and their rights. And it’s far from over.

The Equality Act passed the House for a second time in February, but faces an uncertain future in the Senate.

The site promises to deliver “model legislation” to policymakers designed to keep trans youth from accessing medical care and participating in athletics.  

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

Inspired by the civil rights movement, it was decades in the making.

There still aren't any questions on the Census about sexual orientation and gender identity, but LGBTQ groups say queer people everywhere need to participate.

Republican legislators in over a dozen states are promoting bills that focus on transgender young people, including medical and sports bans.

U.S. cities are again a ray of hope for the LGBTQ community. A record number of municipalities – 78 – earned perfect scores for advancing inclusive policies in 2018, according to a report released Monday by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the Equality Federation Institute, two LGBTQ advocacy groups.

The ruling is far from ideal for LGBTQ advocates, but the worst was avoided.

Generals and researchers provide growing evidence that the administration’s claims about transgender troops are false.

The president announced late last week that he is trying again to keep many transgender people from being able to defend their country.

The Williams Institute at UCLA released its report of data collected in 2017 on the LGBT community: • Using data gathered by the Gallup polling organization, 4.1 percent of adults identify as LGBT across the U.S. • The state with the highest percent of people identifying as LGBT is Vermont with 5.3 percent. Vermont was …

LGBT rights seem imperiled under President Trump, and in danger around the world. The Daily Beast’s Jay Michaelson, Samantha Allen, and Tim Teeman look to what lies ahead in 2018.