The 10 contests for West Coast House races in 2024 with LGBTQ candidates that the Bay Area Reporter is already tracking feature a number of rematches and several newcomers seeking to serve in Congress.
The federal courts have given preliminary victories to the drag community in recent weeks in separate lawsuits against a Utah city and the state of Florida where judges ruled their anti-drag moves violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
A transgender woman is suing the director of the Missouri Department of Corrections and several staff, alleging that she was placed in solitary confinement for six years because of her HIV status after she was "violently assaulted," according to the suit.
On the last day of Pride Month, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to LGBTQ rights when it ruled a Christian web designer has free speech rights to refuse to provide services to same-sex couples.
The U.S. Senate this month confirmed a gay man to a federal district court seat in San Francisco — marking the first time an openly gay nominee has been appointed to the district court for what is often considered the world's gayest city.
A potential compromise would keep PrEP covered by insurers and employers as a case that would overrule federal protection for HIV preventative care moves through the courts.
The Biden administration will be appointing a coordinator to work on the issues and threats that book bans pose for civil rights, according to a June 8 statement from the White House.
The LGBTQ community isn't taking increasing threats to drag lying down — filing suits against a Utah city and the state of Florida arguing their anti-drag moves violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Attorneys are questioning the constitutionality of some of the anti-LGBTQ laws signed by Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just before he launched his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
Patient groups have filed a statement with a federal court supporting a lawsuit seeking to overturn copay accumulator schemes; however, this suit comes as access to life-saving preventative HIV care faces an existential threat from a separate case.
Families fleeing states passing anti-LGBTQ legislation can get microgrants from one nonprofit, whose leader said people are "leaving everything they know and almost in a dark-of-night situation."
The United States Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it finalized new blood donation guidance will allow gay and bisexual men in sexually monogamous relationships to donate blood — but not if they are on PrEP.
Health officials in Chicago have reported a new cluster of 13 mpox cases among gay men, raising concern about a possible resurgence this summer, which unofficially kicks off during the upcoming International Mr. Leather contest over Memorial Day weekend.
Discrimination, physical harm, and conversion therapy correspond to suicide risk, the results of a Trevor Project survey of tens of thousands of LGBTQ young people show.
