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Gay Men's Health Crisis Showed How Everyday People Stepped Up When Institutions Failed During the Height of the AIDS Epidemic — Providing a Model for Today

Gay Men's Health Crisis Showed How Everyday People Stepped Up When Institutions Failed During the Height of the AIDS Epidemic — Providing a Model for Today

Jun 21, 2025

The Gay Men's Health Crisis showed how everyday people stepped up when institutions failed during the height of the AIDS epidemic — providing a model for today.

Affirming Church in Rural Oregon Suffers Vandals' Attacks, Broken Windows

Affirming Church in Rural Oregon Suffers Vandals' Attacks, Broken Windows

By Kilian Melloy | Jun 20, 2025

Vandals damaged several windows of an LGBTQ+ affirming church in rural Oregon — including two antique stained-glass windows. Leaders at the church attribute the attack to their welcoming values of love.

Sunshine Abounds as the Summer Solstice Arrives

Sunshine Abounds as the Summer Solstice Arrives

Jun 20, 2025

Friday is the longest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical summer.

Juneteenth Celebrations Across the US Commemorate the End of Slavery

Juneteenth Celebrations Across the US Commemorate the End of Slavery

By Holly Ramer | Jun 19, 2025

The celebrations come as President Donald Trump's administration has worked to ban DEI in the federal government and remove content about Black American history from federal websites.

EDGE Now: Pride With Power

EDGE Now: Pride With Power

Jun 19, 2025

Want to make a real impact this season? These orgs are slaying for our rights—so let's give 'em the love they deserve!

Families of Trans Kids Worry about What's Next After Supreme Court Rules on Gender-Affirming Care

Families of Trans Kids Worry about What's Next After Supreme Court Rules on Gender-Affirming Care

By Jonathan Mattise, Geoff Mulvihill, and John Seewer | Jun 19, 2025

A U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday upholding Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors is leaving transgender children and their parents uncertain and anxious about the future.

What to Know about the Impacts of the Supreme Court's Ruling on Transgender Care for Youth

What to Know about the Impacts of the Supreme Court's Ruling on Transgender Care for Youth

By Geoff Mulvihill | Jun 19, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming surgery for transgender youth in a ruling that's likely to reverberate across the country. Here are some things to know.

Acting Head of Civil Rights Agency Defends Decisions Undercutting Transgender Workers

Acting Head of Civil Rights Agency Defends Decisions Undercutting Transgender Workers

By Alexandra Olson and Claire Savage | Jun 19, 2025

The acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission acknowledged that transgender workers are protected under civil rights laws but defended her decision to drop lawsuits on their behalf.

Trump Administration Removing 988 Hotline Service Tailored to LGBTQ+ Youth In July

Trump Administration Removing 988 Hotline Service Tailored to LGBTQ+ Youth In July

By Devi Shastri | Jun 18, 2025

The 988 National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will stop providing tailored support options to LGBTQ+ youth and young adults on July 17, according to a statement on a federal agency's website.

Supreme Court OKs Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Kids, A Setback for Transgender Rights

Supreme Court OKs Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Kids, A Setback for Transgender Rights

By Mark Sherman | Jun 18, 2025

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights.

Civil Rights Agency's Acting Chief to Face Questions on Anti-DEI, Transgender Stances

Civil Rights Agency's Acting Chief to Face Questions on Anti-DEI, Transgender Stances

By Alexandra Olson and Claire Savage | Jun 18, 2025

The acting chief of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will face questions over efforts to prioritize anti-diversity investigations while quashing protections for transgender workers.

Judge Says Government Can't Limit Passport Sex Markers for Many Transgender, Nonbinary People

Judge Says Government Can't Limit Passport Sex Markers for Many Transgender, Nonbinary People

By Michael Casey | Jun 18, 2025

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from limiting passport sex markers for many transgender and nonbinary Americans.

Pulse Nightclub: A Haunting Look Inside Before the Mass Shooting Site is Razed

Pulse Nightclub: A Haunting Look Inside Before the Mass Shooting Site is Razed

By Mike Scheider | Jun 16, 2025

Media outlets on Monday were allowed for the first time inside the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando where a gunman opened fire during a Latin night celebration on June 12, 2016, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others.

Portland's 'Pink Pony Prom' Celebrates LGBTQ+ Community in Photos

Portland's 'Pink Pony Prom' Celebrates LGBTQ+ Community in Photos

By Jenny Kane | Jun 15, 2025

This year's edition of the annual event, held to celebrate teen and young adult members of the LGBTQ+ community in Portland, Oregon, was inspired by "Pink Pony Club."

Anti-Trump Demonstrators Crowd Streets, Parks and Plazas Across the US. Organizers Say Millions Came

Anti-Trump Demonstrators Crowd Streets, Parks and Plazas Across the US. Organizers Say Millions Came

By Marc Levy, Claudia Lauer and Jim Vertuno | Jun 15, 2025

Masses of demonstrators packed into streets, parks and plazas across the U.S. to protest President Trump, marching through downtowns and small towns, blaring anti-authoritarian chants mixed with support for protecting democracy and immigrant rights.

Protests, Parades and Pride: One Week in June 2025 is Drawing Stark American Fault Lines

Protests, Parades and Pride: One Week in June 2025 is Drawing Stark American Fault Lines

By Ted Anthony | Jun 14, 2025

Today's United States — its possibility, its strength, its divisiveness, its polarization and fragmentation — is encapsulated in a single week in June 2025, its triumphs and frictions on vivid display.

What's Left for the Supreme Court to Decide? 21 Cases, Including State Bans on Transgender Care

What's Left for the Supreme Court to Decide? 21 Cases, Including State Bans on Transgender Care

By Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst | Jun 14, 2025

The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration's emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump's efforts to remake the federal government.

For Jim Obergefell, Protecting Marriage Equality Comes with Keeping Vows to His Husband: 'We Just Wanted to Exist'

For Jim Obergefell, Protecting Marriage Equality Comes with Keeping Vows to His Husband: 'We Just Wanted to Exist'

By Kilian Melloy | Jun 11, 2025

"Yes, I'm worried about marriage equality," Jim Obergefell says. His ongoing advocacy for marriage equality is a way of staying faithful to his late husband, but now that progress is in danger of erasure.

Pulse Massacre Survivors Are Set to Revisit the Nightclub Before It's Razed

Pulse Massacre Survivors Are Set to Revisit the Nightclub Before It's Razed

By Mike Schneider | Jun 11, 2025

Survivors and family members are getting their first chance Wednesday to walk through the long-shuttered, LGBTQ+-friendly Florida venue before it's razed.

Southern Baptist Delegates at National Meeting Overwhelmingly Call for Banning Same-Sex Marriage

Southern Baptist Delegates at National Meeting Overwhelmingly Call for Banning Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Smith | Jun 10, 2025

Southern Baptist delegates at their national meeting overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on same-sex marriage — including a call for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court's 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide.

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