Missouri has enacted a new law restricting access to gender-affirming healthcare for incarcerated transgender people, marking a significant change in how the state’s Department of Corrections is permitted to provide medical treatment and, as a result, forcing their transgender inmates to detransition.
Turkish authorities have banned a cruise ship catering to American LGBTQ+ travelers from docking in the country’s ports, citing “moral standards” and “family values,” the CEO of the events company behind the upcoming Mediterranean tour said Thursday.
A US Postal Service employee was arrested Sunday (28 June) after allegedly posting threats online targeting a Pride parade in Texas, according to the FBI.
A suspect in three shootings — two of which were deadly — in Philadelphia’s Hunting Park community targeted his victims because they were gay, law enforcement sources told NBC10.
⭐Alliance for Justice called Thomas’ opinion “a particularly nasty concurrence rejecting the legitimacy of trans identities outright.".
"Just fired off a couple of paragraphs to say that transgender is not a thing.” -Justice Clarence Thomas
🏳️⚧️Pack light, ideally a backpack and a small roller at most, and expect to be moving around a lot.🏳️⚧️
The presence of rightwing counter-protesters and online influencers seeking to harass and goad them was noticeable at many events around New York City.
The Monroeville Public Library removed its Pride Month children’s book display following a directive from local officials. Kelly Meredith, president of the Monroeville Public Library Board of Directors, said a decision was made to remove the library's Pride Month display after the municipal manager directed library staff to take it down.
⭐🚨The full consequences of this decision are wide, and will be hard to predict, but it is safe to say that every trans person has had their rights reduced.
🚨⭐THIS WILL BE A HUGE RULING WITH MANY CONSEQUENCES ACROSS THE BOARD.
The Supreme Court will hear the case during the next court session, and a ruling will be issued by June 2027.
As communities across Chicago and its suburbs prepare for Pride parade weekend, a suburban church has become the center of controversy, drawing dozens of protesters over messaging displayed on an electronic sign. Several dozen protesters, waving rainbow flags and carrying signs, stood outside the church to voice their concerns. Organizers said the demonstration was peaceful and intended to raise awareness.
The famous plaintiff who helped usher in nationwide marriage equality worries about attempts to overturn it.
Eugene Pride organizers said last year’s hate group presence and recent police actions against trans activists made the march untenable.
The former transportation secretary described it as “the ugliest thing that has happened to me since my career in service began.”
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said his family has been targeted in a “politically motivated hoax” after someone made what police characterized as a false report to Child Protective Services alleging he committed crimes against his children.
In a Substack post Friday, Buttigieg wrote that an anonymous caller reported to CPS that his 4-year-old twins he shares with his husband, Chasten, were “at risk.”
The caller said that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk,” Buttigieg wrote.
Buttigieg, a prominent Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender, likened the incident to “swatting” — when someone calls 911 to falsely report an immediate threat, often at a public figure’s home — “but with Child Protective Services instead of a SWAT team.”
As a result of the allegation, Buttigieg said a CPS worker told him he could not be around his children unsupervised for 24 hours while the allegation was investigated. He and his husband dropped the children off with their grandparents for the night, beginning what Buttigieg described as “among the darkest hours of my life.”
He said the children were also interviewed by CPS the following day.
The CPS worker assigned to the case did not find anything to substantiate the allegation, Buttigieg said, adding that he doesn’t know the identity of the person who made the accusation.
The right’s verdict is in: white, heterosexual, Christian men face the most discrimination in the US. The Giants don’t want to push back
An NHS trust has paid out £187,000 in damages after an employment tribunal found it harassed seven nurses by requiring them to share a changing room with a transgender woman.
A U.S. appeals court has revived a lawsuit claiming Alaska Airlines engaged in religious discrimination by firing two flight attendants who criticized the company’s support for expanding legal protections for LGBTQ people. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on Wednesday that there was enough proof that the airline was motivated by the workers’ Christian beliefs when it fired them to let a jury decide whether it broke the law.
The Democrat judge who awarded the large sum to Justice Dianne Hensley says marrying same-sex couples violated her religious freedom rights
⭐Travis County Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, a Democrat, awarded McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley $10,000 in damages and $630,000 in attorney’s fees on the grounds that the commission infringed on Hensley’s religious liberty rights. Gamble’s ruling stated the state agency did not have a right to “investigate, sanction, or discipline” her for refusing to officiate same-sex weddings due to her Christian beliefs.
The state’s attorney general called the vote “an appalling abdication of the state government’s duty.”
Gay state Rep. Eric Morrison (D) told the Washington Blade that an anonymous Republican had agreed to vote yes, which would have secured the 28 votes needed if all 27 Democrats also voted yes, but the GOP lawmaker did not keep his word.
Ortega, the Democrat who voted no, told WHYY it was his “duty as an elected representative… to listen to the concerns of the people I serve.”
🚨⭐ Therapist was facing disciplinary charges which were withdrawn due to US Supreme Court ruling of 2026🚨⭐
The Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists has withdrawn its previously agreed remedies against a counselor who allegedly violated their code of ethics by refusing to validate a client’s same-sex relationship. The appeal against the board’s decision was aided by the far-right group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and cited the Supreme Court’s decision in Chiles v. Salazar, which upheld Colorado’s conversion therapy ban earlier this year. In their victory lap statement, the ADF framed the win as a simple First Amendment matter of free speech: “The government can’t target counselors for their views and force people to say things that go against their core convictions” said Jonathan Scruggs, a senior counsel for ADF and their vice president of litigation strategy. “The Supreme Court recently took Colorado to task for censoring counselors and mandating orthodoxy in the counselor’s office, and Oregon should take notice.”