https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/status-fight-lgbtq-rights-110945403
The status of the fight for LGBTQ rights. ABC News' Andrew Dymburt speaks with Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson about anti-LGBTQ legislation around the country and how the group

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/06/27/fewer-anti-lgbtq-bills-pass-fight-gets-harder
In recent years, advocates have faced an unprecedented avalanche of anti-LGBTQ legislation each spring. In 2024, however, the onslaught seems to have faltered somewhat. While hundreds of anti

https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/in-2021-our-fight-for-lgbtq-rights-moved-to-the-states
ACLU. December 16, 2021. 2021 saw a record number of attacks on LGBTQ rights in state legislatures — most aimed at trans youth. We're fighting back in courts and communities around the nation. Several great strides for LGBTQ rights were made in 2021, but we also encountered an unprecedented upsurge in discriminatory legislation.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-support-for-lgbtq-rights-is-declining-after-decades-of-support-heres-why
For the last few decades, the story of LGBTQ plus rights in America has been one of increasing public support. But now a new survey finds that for the first time in years, there's a slight decline

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/us/hrc-lgbtq-emergency-declared/index.html
For the first time in its four-decade history, America's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization has declared a national state of emergency for members of

https://www.hrc.org/magazine/2023-summer/a-new-era-of-fighting-for-lgbtq-equality
We marked a historic yet unfortunate moment in our quest for equality in May 2023 when the Human Rights Campaign declared a full state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people given the unprecedented level of attacks we're facing. Since the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 solidifying nationwide marriage equality, our

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-29/lgbtq-rights-supreme-court-ruling-legal-fight-future
After the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in 303 Creative vs. Elenis, queer rights activists, scholars and lawyers are urging resolve in the fight for LGBTQ+ legal rights.

https://www.state.gov/release-of-the-annual-progress-report-on-the-implementation-of-the-presidential-memorandum-on-advancing-the-human-rights-of-lgbtqi-persons-around-the-world/
Today the Department of State released the third public report on the U.S. government's implementation of the 2021 Presidential Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons (LGBTQI+) Persons Around the World. The report highlights our efforts to promote and protect the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons globally […]

https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/for-the-first-time-ever-human-rights-campaign-officially-declares-state-of-emergency-for-lgbtq-americans-issues-national-warning-and-guidebook-to-ensure-safety-for-lgbtq-residents-and-travelers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization — officially declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the United States for the first time in its more than 40-year history, following an unprecedented and dangerous spike in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative assaults sweeping

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/01/pride-month-lgbtq-rights-gay-trans/
June 1, 2024 at 4:40 a.m. EDT. LGBTQ+ rights supporter Vin Testa waves a Pride flag in front of the Supreme Court building in D.C. on June 26. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) As Pride Month begins

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/opinion/biden-lgbtq-service-members.html
President Biden's decision on Wednesday to pardon thousands of L.G.B.T.Q. service members who had been unfairly punished, discharged or court-martialed for their sexual orientation or gender

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/28/fact-sheet-u-s-agencies-are-advancing-the-human-rights-of-lgbtqi-persons-around-the-world/
Ensuring Foreign Assistance Protects Human Rights and Advances Non-discrimination: In FY2021, the Department of State increased its support to the Global Equality Fund to $10 million annually. The

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/06/22/lgbtq-victories-did-happen-2023
In the most significant UN decision on same-sex intimacy since Toonen v Australia (1994), the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) found, in March 2022, that laws

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fight-lgbtqia-rights-far-over
There have been great strides in the fight for equal rights since then, but more than a half-century later, police brutality, mass incarceration, and the quest for racial justice remain ever salient in our nation's struggle to embody its stated principles of liberty and equality. In a 1973 Supreme Court opinion, Justice William Brennan wrote

https://www.aclu.org/issues/lgbtq-rights
The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in 1936. What is now the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project was founded in 1986 and renamed in 2021. Today, the ACLU brings more LGBTQ rights cases and advocacy initiatives than any other national organization does.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/us-sees-progress-lgbtq-rights-equality-lacking-un-expert-says-rcna45622
Madrigal-Borloz said that in access to health, employment, education and housing, the LGBTQ community suffers. Among young adults aged 18 to 25, for example, LGBTQ people have a 2.2 times greater

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/florida-lgbtq-teens-teachers-dont-say-gay-rcna159120
NBC News followed LGBTQ teens and teachers for one year under the state's expanded parental rights law, which critics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law. IE 11 is not supported.

https://www.cfr.org/article/changing-landscape-global-lgbtq-rights
The Obama administration emerged as a world leader in advocacy, helping set the UN agenda for expanded international protections for LGBTQ+ people; launching the State Department's Global

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108668019/the-global-struggle-for-lgbtq-rights-and-the-people-who-defend-them
While the last few decades have shown major progress when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights globally, queer people have had to continue to fight for them. During Pride month there have been several high

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjeerggvqw1o
A CBS News report found an estimated 100,000 LGBT military members were kicked out of the US military between World War II and the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/intersection-of-lgbtq-rights-and-religious-freedom/a-brief-history-of-the-path-to-securing-lgbtq-rights/
The modern-day movement for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans often is hailed as beginning in 1969. That's when LGBTQ patrons of New York's Stonewall Inn fought back against police harassment. At that time, every state in the nation but one criminalized most forms of same-sex sexual intimacy.

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/06/27/opinion-fewer-anti-lgbtq-bills-pass-fight-harder/
This would include rolling back existing nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people, reinstating the transgender military ban, and codifying state restrictions on transgender rights at the

https://www.aclu.org/documents/rights-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-people
One state even tried to fence lesbians and gay men out of the process used to pass laws. In 1992 Colorado enacted Amendment 2, which repealed existing state laws and barred future laws protecting lesbians, gay men and bisexuals from discrimination. The U. S. Supreme Court struck it down in the landmark 1996 Romer v. Evans decision.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/999241572/in-the-fight-for-lgbtq-rights-lessons-from-the-1990s-culture-wars
FX's new documentary miniseries Pride focuses each of its six episodes on one decade in the fight for LGBTQ rights in America. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Yance Ford, directed the 1990s episode.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-milestones-american-gay-rights-movement/
In the landmark case One, Inc. v. Olesen, the United States Supreme Court rules in favor of the First Amendment rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) magazine "One: The

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/gay-rights-trump-gop/678797/
Red states and jurisdictions passed laws restricting discussion of sexual orientation in schools, some of the more than 1,800 anti-LGBTQ-rights bills introduced nationwide in the past four years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1140yv03po
Attitudes to LGBT rights have shifted enormously over the past decade, as Ukraine has embraced European values, though many still hold socially conservative and even homophobic views.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/fight-for-lgbtq-rights-around-the-world/
Here are six issues the global LGBTQ+ community is still fighting in their quest for equal rights. 1. The Ugandan Parliament passed the Sexual Offenses Bill, further criminalizing same-sex sexual acts. Uganda has remained staunchly homophobic both in terms of legislation and the general sentiment of government officials.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/22/nyregion/gaza-war-lgbtq-community.html
Many L.G.B.T.Q. people lean left politically and support Palestinians. But some argue that in the Middle East, Israel is more tolerant of gay people and deserves their support.

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/20/nx-s1-5010403/in-a-win-for-thailands-lgbtq-community-lawmakers-vote-to-legalize-same-sex-marriage
It's been a decade ago - like, eight or nine years that, you know, Thailand has been in this state with the military coup, with the government that's been, you know, oppressive in terms of rights