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Black LGBTQ+ youth need spaces that embrace them fully, researchers say
Twenty-one percent of Black trans, nonbinary and questioning youth have made a suicide attempt in the last year, nearly half said they felt unsafe at school, and 64% said they had encountered transphobia, according to two recent reports that advocates say should serve as a call to action for LGBTQ+ communities. At the end of […]
Fetterman, Casey retreat from LGBTQ center earmark amid Libs of Tik Tok accusations
WASHINGTON — Congressional appropriators on Wednesday scrapped funding for an LGBTQ+ community center in Philadelphia at the request of Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators, two Democrats who withdrew their support for an earmark that was targeted by a high-profile conservative social media account. Sens. John Fetterman and Bob Casey asked members of the Senate Appropriations Transportation-HUD Subcommittee […]
Louisiana elected officials helped fund PAC that sent anti-LGBTQ+ texts to voters
Rep. Joe Stagni handily won reelection to his state House seat representing Jefferson Parish in October. The moderate Republican walloped fellow GOP candidate Mike Sigur to claim 70% of the vote. But as Stagni coasted to victory, conservatives decided to take a shot at the two-term incumbent. On Election Day, a political action committee sent […]
Gov.-elect Jeff Landry joins fight against federal protections for LGBTQ+ foster youth
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, now the governor-elect, joined 16 other AGs who are targeting a proposed federal rule meant to give LGBTQ+ youth additional protections in foster care. A letter from the AGs, sent Monday to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), concerns a rule the Biden administration proposed in September […]
National museum of LGBTQI+ history and culture proposed by Wisconsin congressman
WASHINGTON — Proposed federal legislation could add LGBTQI+ history and culture to the Smithsonian Institution’s museum tapestry. U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, a Wisconsin Democrat, introduced two bills in late October that would begin the process of creating a National Museum of American LGBTQI+ History and Culture. Both bills would need to be signed into law […]
U.S. House GOP in spending bills takes aim at federal LGBTQ, racial equity policies
U.S. House Republicans are continuing to use government spending bills to engage in culture war battles, with legislation debated during the past week that would ban pride flags on some federal buildings, strip funding from a new museum for Latino history and target certain LGBTQ and racial equity policies and programs. The hot-button provisions in […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson has long opposed abortion and LGBTQ+ rights
Before the newly elected U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson was in public office, the Louisiana Republican’s restrictive stances on gender identity, abortion and sexuality were honed at the conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, where he served as a senior spokesperson and attorney. Alliance Defending Freedom, or ADF, is the legal force behind dozens […]
PAC’s anti-LGBTQ+ text on Election Day causes ‘number of problems’ for Freedom Caucus
Two members of the Louisiana Legislature’s Freedom Caucus said their group isn’t responsible for sending an anti-LGBTQ+ text message maligning a gay Republican candidate. The listed sponsor of the text campaign has a similar name — but apparently no connection. A mass text went out to potential voters in the city of Central on Election […]
In scrapping its LGBTQ-related travel ban, California pivots to ‘hearts and minds’
In September, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom officially repealed California’s 2016 ban on state-funded travel to states with laws targeting LGBTQ+ people. The idea behind the ban — which applied to bureaucrats, lawmakers, academics and even college athletes — was to use California’s economic heft to dissuade other states from enacting such laws. By that metric, […]
LGBTQ project funding in two states stripped by U.S. House Republicans from spending bill
WASHINGTON — In a tense meeting marked by Democratic charges of hatred and bigotry, Republicans on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted Tuesday to strip funding for three LGBTQ community projects, just weeks after they included the money in the annual transportation and housing spending bill. At one point, Rep. Andy Harris, a Maryland Republican […]