Jan. 20 marked the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, which ushered in an era of unprecedented attacks on transgender ...

A new biography, "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson," tells the story of the Black transgender pioneer’s fight on the frontlines of history as a leader in the early LGBTQ rights ...

With a wave of recent victories, marriage equality throughout the United States seems inevitable but much more needs to be done in areas such as immigration, poverty, and global rights. That was the ...

Sylvia Rivera was one of the most influential activists in the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1960s and ’70s. A drag queen and transgender woman, Rivera was a key figure in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 ...

NEW YORK -- Whitehall and Pearl streets today are bustling with activity, but on Sept. 19, 1964 it was quiet, and what happened at that NYC intersection built momentum for the LGBT rights movement.

“When LGBTQ+ rights are attacked, it’s a warning sign for everyone.” ...

On a special episode (first released on June 26, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Stonewall veterans helped ignite a global movement for LGBTQ+ rights. Now, over 50 years later, they’re battling a new ...

It’s an incredible, historic day of celebration for the LGBT rights movement. And no one is partying harder than the activists and lawyers who have spent the past several decades working towards ...

In 1965, Life magazine declared San Francisco the capital of gay America. And the Castro was its beating heart.

Julie Lobur and her wife, Marla Cattermole, came of age at a time when the LGBTQ community had to fight for the most basic rights. Over the years, Lobur, who is 70, and Cattermole, who is in her 60s, ...

I opened an email announcement sent by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, with the subject line: these colors don’t run – Independence Day special. I felt as if I ...