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President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that effectively guts a 2014 executive order signed by then-President Barack Obama barring federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT workers.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has given North Carolina a deadline to repeal House Bill 2.
President Donald Trump will give this year's commencement speech at Liberty University, the evangelical university known for its opposition to LGBT rights.
Members of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe in northeast Oklahoma, on Monday voted to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
Christian conservative Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), recently condemned the advances of the LGBT rights movement, calling it "satanic."
A poll released Friday finds that a majority of Americans oppose laws that prohibit transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice and support LGBT protections.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Monday hinted that an executive order protecting "religious freedom" was coming.
A Utah bill that would make it a criminal offense for a person not to disclose their HIV/AIDS status before engaging in any sexual activity has cleared a House committee.
According to an LGBT rights advocate, the Trump administration is preparing to rescind Obama-era guidance on transgender students.
Comedian Larry Wilmore and gay conservative Milo Yiannopoulos sparred over transgender rights on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher.
Several LGBT groups are calling on the Trump administration to keep in place guidance that protects transgender students.
The Trump administration on Friday withdrew its objections to an injunction that blocked government guidance on allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice.
More than 1,200 community members, community leaders, dignitaries, and supporters, including Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, shared in the message of 'equality and justice for all' during Equality Illinois' 2017 gala held
Klider Hakim is excited and certainly emotional for Tuesday, Feb. 7, when he leaves his home in Uptown and heads to downtown Chicago to officially become a U.S. citizen – a moment he feared might never happen.
LGBT groups are alarmed by a leaked copy of a draft executive order they say would allow discrimination.
LGBT rights groups are speaking out against Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The White House announced Tuesday that President Donald Trump will continue to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people working for federal contractors under an executive order signed by his pr
The hashtag #DeleteUber trended worldwide Saturday night as Uber provided rides at JFK airport while other taxi drivers held a strike over President Donald Trump's ban on Muslim travelers.
A presidential election marked by personal attacks and insults may have impacted even those too young to vote.
The baker who created a replica of a cake originally made for President Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration will donate the profits to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest LGBT rights advocate.
A page devoted to LGBT issues on the White House website was taken down after President Donald Trump took office on Friday.
During his final news conference from the White House, President Barack Obama reflected on the gains made by LGBT activists during his presidency.
At her Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Betsy DeVos was asked whether she supports therapies that claim to alter the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBT people.
Out billionaire Peter Thiel told The New York Times this week that he does not believe President-elect Donald Trump will reverse the gains of the LGBT community.