In the second installment of the ACLU’s election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people.

More than 400 LGBTQ and civil rights groups on Monday urged lawmakers to reject legislation that would bar transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, claiming the measure, which the House ...

This month has not been the greatest month for LGBT civil rights. On July 6, the New York Court of Appeals (the state's highest court) ruled 4-2 that it is constitutional to deny same-sex couples the ...

The Supreme Court ruled that the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in the workplace (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964), protects people from discrimination for being LGBTQ. This ...

On December 18, Kazakhstan’s Senate approved a law that most controversially bans the promotion of “nontraditional” sexual ...

LGBT advocates are praising President Barack Obama’s selection of two appointees to six-year terms on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. On Thursday, Obama appointed Assistant Secretary of Education ...

Nine state LGBTQ rights organizations announced a new coalition aimed at getting civil rights protections enshrined in federal law before the midterm elections. But the organizations aren't pushing ...

(WHTM) — Pennsylvania was once first in the nation when it comes to protecting the rights of LGBTQ citizens. The problem is, advocates say, that it was 50 years ago, and the Commonwealth has fallen ...

RALEIGH, NC -- A North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights protections and can't be enforced, The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. The Justice ...

LGBTQ rights supporters are mourning the less of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon who worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and died late Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer at ...

BRIC is a nonprofit arts and media cultural organization that presents free and low-cost programming to the community. Created By BlankSlate With same sex marriage a fact in all 50 states, it’s easy ...

On January 20, 2025, we experience a political planetary alignment of sorts. Though his birthday was on January 15, the United States will commemorate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s national ...