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Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination
July 6, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
The Straight Man in the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Not the Real Problem
The Christian group behind the Supreme Court wedding website case would rather stoke controversy about the fake inquiry than have us look at how its own story has changed.
June 30, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
The Supreme Court Doesn’t Care That the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Based on Fiction
It still feels unnerving to some, even those caught in the crossfire, to see injuries invented wholesale and lies accepted by the highest court in the land.
June 25, 2023
Jason Kyle Howard
The War on LGBTQ People Being Waged in Rural America
Pride should be about celebration and protest. For many this year, especially in rural America, it’s also about fear.
June 12, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
Why Conservatives Are Losing Their Minds Over Biden’s Pride Flag—and Ignoring Pro-DeSantis Neo-Nazis
Some on the political right see only authoritarian goals in the power of the state.
April 17, 2023
Prem Thakker
Ron DeSantis’s Director Is Literally Cheering on LGBTQ Parents Fleeing Florida
The Florida governor’s aide-de-camp is attacking hardworking everyday Floridians on Twitter.
April 17, 2023
Tori Otten
Montana Anti-Drag Bill Would Ban Dolly Parton and Glam Rock
What a way to make a living!
March 20, 2023
Tori Otten
Undercover Officers Were Sent to Investigate a Drag Show in Orlando, for Some Reason
Agents in attendance saw nothing lewd to report. The state is trying to punish the venue anyway, amid Gov. Ron DeSantis’s anti-LGBTQ crackdown.
January 3, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
Welcome to Ron DeSantis’s 2024 Campaign Against “Wokes”
The Florida governor and potential presidential contender used his inauguration address to target his favorite bogeyman.
February 23, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Has Teed Up a Radical Reimagining of LGBTQ Rights
By taking a flier on a plaintiff whose First Amendment rights have only been hypothetically violated, the high court may avoid having to consider the rights of those who might face anti-gay discrimination.
February 23, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Texas’s Attorney General Is Laying the Groundwork to Separate Trans Kids From Their Families
Ken Paxton says his “formal attorney general opinion” is that gender-affirming health care for trans kids is “child abuse.”
June 17, 2021
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Delivers a Twist Ending on LGBTQ Discrimination
The court’s liberal and conservative bloc combined to deliver a needle-threading ruling on a major religious freedom challenge.
June 9, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
Will Biden’s Obsession With Compromise Poison His Agenda on LGBTQ Rights?
An opaque court filing in an anti-LGBTQ discrimination case has advocates asking if this administration will “bargain down” the rights of students to reach an uneasy peace with Republicans.
March 17, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
The Right’s Fight Against LGBTQ Rights Is More Than a Culture War
The power to control people’s lives through institutionalized bias, stigma, and violence is key to the Republican project. That’s why they hate the Equality Act.
February 11, 2020
Sydney Bauer
The New Anti-Trans Culture War Hiding in Plain Sight
The right's fixation on trans youth has found its new target: criminalizing doctors who provide puberty blockers and hormones.
December 30, 2019
Katelyn Burns
When “Biology” Becomes a Cover for Anti-Trans Bigotry
How an employment case in the United Kingdom revealed the ugly contours of anti-trans discrimination
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