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Worldwide Pride Month events are underway but they are coming at a time when many people who identify as LGBTQ+ say they are facing increasing difficulties at work, ranging from being repeatedly misgendered to physically assaulted.

"AI Comes Out of the Closet" is a new system that leverages AI-generated dialog and virtual characters to create complex social interaction simulations involving LGBTQIA+ individuals. The project is led by MIT Media Lab researchers and graduate students D. Pillis and Pat Pataranutaporn.

The orders include state healthcare plans for gender-affirming surgery and restricting conversation therapy for LGBTQ youth.

It is the third time this month that federal courts have enjoined laws backed by DeSantis that target LGBTQ people.

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The Path to Pride The year is 2001. The legal profession in Ontario is in disarray after several law students at the University of Toronto’s law school were caught fraudulently altering their grades to secure prestigious Bay Street summer positions. Many of these students were disciplined. Yet, in the eyes of the legal priesthood, this […]

Target on Wednesday said it was removing some products that celebrate Pride Month after the company and its employes became the focus of a “volatile” anti-LGBTQ campaign.

Legislation banning promotion of homosexuality encourages homophobia, says European court of human rights

Although many company equal employment opportunity and no-harassment policies prohibit discrimination or harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity, not all applicable state civil righ

US district judge Thomas Parker grants temporary injunction, finding the law clashes with first amendment on free speech

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Teachers who play movies like Mulan or Mrs. Doubtfire in class would jeopardize their school’s funding, under a proposal Senate Republicans on Thursday sold as protecting children from the dangers of drag shows.

Republican lawmakers advanced a bill that would prohibit public money from being used to pay for “drag shows targeting minors" in Arizona.

WASHINGTON, March 15 (Reuters) - Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the ...

The House voted to pass legislation on Thursday to protect same-sex and interracial marriage, the last step before the measure goes to President Joe Biden for his signature and becomes law.

NEW YORK (AP) — Pride parades kicked off in New York City and around the country Sunday with glittering confetti, cheering crowds, fluttering rainbow flags and newfound fears about losing freedoms won through decades of activism.

Before Nazism, a German institute cemented itself as gay liberation’s epicenter. For 40 years, activists have been searching for its legendary collection.

Lynn Starkey sued the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Roncalli High School in 2019 after she was fired over her same-sex marriage.

Educators fear the wave of anti-gay laws threaten the supportive environments they try to build for LGBTQ students

Tuesday's decision is the culmination of a 12-year legal effort that began in 2009 when a media coalition led by KQED sought to have the Proposition 8 trial broadcast.

The Arizona Queer Archives, the first archive in Arizona to capture the histories and stories of LGBTQI+ communities, has a new home in the University Libraries Special Collections.

Jim Obergefell and Richard Hodges say that Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation is a threat to the rights of the LGBTQ community.

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The impact of LGBTI human rights advances has been incremental and subtle, but one measure can be gleaned from the response of UN human rights institutions at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

An advocacy group for LGBTQ equality in sports that grades Division I athletic departments' policies and practices is raising awareness about inclusion of transgender athletes and pushing colleges to do better.

On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders, recognizing homosexuality as a natural variant of human sexuality. This milestone now marks an annual celebration of sexual and gender diversities, known as the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). Yet the lasting impact of stigma, and “othering” is evident in the discrimination and abuse that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people around the world continue to experience.

Read CNN's Fast Facts on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning milestones in the United States, and learn more about their struggle for equal rights.

"Youth Standing Up for Human Rights" — this year’s Human Rights Day theme — has particular resonance for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world.

"People were fighting for these rights long before Stonewall," Aaron Marcus of History Colorado said of the state's early gay activists.