For the second time this week, a judge has blocked anti-transgender legislation from taking effect. In Ohio today (April 17), a Republican judge, Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Micha...
https://dallasvoice.com/second-anti-trans-law-this-week-is-blocked/
Philadelphia — News is Out and Word In Black announced the 16 fellows selected for The Digital Equity Local Voices Lab, a new initiative powered by Comcast NBCUniversal to place journalists at ...
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics this week changed its policies to ban transgender women athletes from competing in women’s sports, prompting outrage from LGBTQ advocates, ...
https://dallasvoice.com/splc-condemns-ncias-change-to-anti-trans-policy/
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled today (April 9) that all abortions should be banned by reinstating a near-total abortion ban from 1864. The law also punishes doctors with 2-5 years prison time fo...
https://dallasvoice.com/arizona-supreme-court-reinstates-1864-abortion-law/
Congress voted to maintain HIV funding in its fiscal year 2024 spending package rejecting a Republican proposal to cut $767 million in HIV prevention, care and treatment money and eliminate the e...
https://dallasvoice.com/congress-reject-bid-to-eliminate-hiv-funding/
Lawmakers in New Jersey have approved a bipartisan bill to codify a state certification process for LGBTQ business owners, sending the bill to Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk for his signature. When si...
https://dallasvoice.com/nj-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-codify-state-certification-for-lgbtq-businesses/
So far rulings are positive on LGBTQ issues, but there’s more to come LISA KEEN | Keen News Service lisakeen@mac.com More than half-way through its 2023-24 session, the U.S. Supreme Court has d...
When asked, “Which do you consider yourself to be?” 7.6 percent of adults responding to a Gallup Poll answered LGBTQ. That’s up from 7.2 percent last year and 5.6 percent in 2020. In 2012, ...
https://dallasvoice.com/more-than-a-quarter-of-gen-z-women-identify-as-queer/
Public Religion Research Institute released a study that shows support for LGBTQ rights is down over the last year. The survey is based on more than 22,000 interviews of people across all 50 stat...
https://dallasvoice.com/new-study-shows-support-for-lgbtq-rights-is-down/
David Mixner, a “founding father” of the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, a leading LGBTQ activist in the 1980s and ’90s and an advisor to then-candidate Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign has died...
https://dallasvoice.com/longtime-activist-victory-fund-co-founder-david-mixner-has-died/