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What slumping retail sales mean for you from someone who was on the inside

Opinion: Reduced product variety, diminished customer service, and decreased support for community programs like Pride events are inevitable, writes John Casey.


Out Politicians to Hold a Virtual Town Hall on Pandemic's LGBTQ Impact

They will call for a national effort to document and address the crisis's impact on LGBTQ Americans. 

Republicans Urged to Drop $2 Million DOMA Defense

Speaker Boehner and his colleagues are asked to "end your taxpayer-funded contract for outside legal services defending discrimination."

Online Interfaith Memorial Service Will Honor Holidays, Mourn Losses

Organized by HRC, the service will observe Easter and Passover while memorializing victims of the current pandemic.

Obama Tells Graduates to Embrace "Defiant, Can-Do Spirit"

"That's how we achieved women's rights," said Obama. "That's how we achieved voting rights. That how we achieved workers' rights. That's how we achieved gay rights. That's how we made this union more perfect."

Three 'Extraordinary' LGBTQ+ Innovators Named 2020 MacArthur Fellows

Isaiah Andrews, Mary L. Gray, and Jacqueline Woodson are the recipients of the prestigious Genius Grant.

WATCH: What It's Really Like to Be a Trans Parent

Just as Jeffrey Tambor wins an Emmy for playing a fictional trans parent on TV, a new documentary film shows real-life trans parents like they have never been shown before.

How Sen. Chris Murphy is changing the Democratic Party and holding Republicans to account

In an interview with The Advocate, Murphy touches on corruption, LGBTQ+ rights, DEI, and why the stakes have never been higher.

Sperm or Egg: Events Seek to Pair Up Prospective LGBT Parents

LGBT folks in the Bay Area who want to have biological children are taking the process into their own hands.

In search of diversity

Our diarist participates in a panel at a Human Rights Campaign event and confronts the question: Is the LGBT community really as good at diversity as we assume it is?

Gender-affirming care improves transgender lives, according to largest survey of trans people

The 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey documents the benefits of gender-affirming health care but shows the challenges trans people continue to face.

BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns as Liberal Party leader

He will remain prime minister until his replacement is chosen.

Italy’s prime minister says surrogacy ‘inhuman’ as party backs steeper penalties

The move to criminalize surrogacy is largely seen as a move against the LGBTQ+ community.

Queering Uncle Naseem: Ramy's Radically Problematic Gay Character

The Emmy-nominated show explores a gay Middle Eastern man who is bigoted, violent, and completely human.

STUDY: LGBT Women Among Most At-Risk for Poverty

A new study reveals that trans women are 3.8 times more likely to live in poverty than cisgender women.

7 Reasons To Be Hopeful in 2015

While the world offers many examples of persecution and injustice, there are reasons to expect the next generation will be better off, and the next, and the next.

Beware the Pitfalls of Estimating the Number of LGBT People

The author on a Williams Institute study of the size of the LGBT population explains why the numbers have set off such a firestorm.