Jan. 20 marked the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, which ushered in an era of unprecedented attacks on transgender ...

A new biography, "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson," tells the story of the Black transgender pioneer’s fight on the frontlines of history as a leader in the early LGBTQ rights ...

With a wave of recent victories, marriage equality throughout the United States seems inevitable but much more needs to be done in areas such as immigration, poverty, and global rights. That was the ...

NEW YORK -- Whitehall and Pearl streets today are bustling with activity, but on Sept. 19, 1964 it was quiet, and what happened at that NYC intersection built momentum for the LGBT rights movement.

Sylvia Rivera was one of the most influential activists in the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1960s and ’70s. A drag queen and transgender woman, Rivera was a key figure in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 ...

On a special episode (first released on June 26, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Stonewall veterans helped ignite a global movement for LGBTQ+ rights. Now, over 50 years later, they’re battling a new ...

In Marsha P. Johnson's final interview before her death in 1992, the activist later recognized as an icon of the movement that preceded LGBTQ rights in the United States explained why she, a ...

David Mixner is acutely aware that now he is one of the last pioneering voices in his community. "I'm sort of sitting here by default, and I know it, and I know I carry that burden: To never let ...

The Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ rights organization, is taking its LGBTQ equality message on the road with a multicity tour focused on changing more hearts and minds, ...

I opened an email announcement sent by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, with the subject line: these colors don’t run – Independence Day special. I felt as if I ...

Julie Lobur and her wife, Marla Cattermole, came of age at a time when the LGBTQ community had to fight for the most basic rights. Over the years, Lobur, who is 70, and Cattermole, who is in her 60s, ...