Lupe Valdez won the Democratic nomination for governor of Texas in a runoff primary Tuesday night, becoming the first openly LGBT person - and the first Latina - to win a major party nomination for governor in the state.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has joined with nine of his counterparts in other states to oppose the Trump administration's move to no longer collect crime data on LGBT teenagers at the federal level.
A federal judge in Seattle ruled April 13 that a lawsuit may proceed against President Donald Trump's proposed ban on transgender service members and that a previously issued stay against implementation of the ban will remain "in full force."
Bipartisan legislation targeting online sex trafficking could harm consensual adult sex workers and set a bad precedent for online censorship, according to opponents of the new law.
Lori Franchina worked as a firefighter for Providence, Rhode Island, and for four years, everything was fine. Then one day, she was paired up with a male worker notorious for sexually harassing female colleagues.
The Trump administration has appointed Dr. Robert Redfield, a longtime HIV/AIDS researcher and clinician, to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Friday that serves as an implementation plan for his policy to ban transgender people from serving openly in the military.
A gay man was sworn in this week as the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as other gay and lesbian candidates advanced after winning primary races in Texas.
San Francisco officials are saying the city will ensure transgender people and others continue to receive health care after an anti-LGBT rule was announced by the Trump administration.
