Brooke Migdon

A Virginia school board has agreed to pay a former high school teacher more than $500,000 in damages and attorneys' fees as part of a legal settlement after the instructor's dismissal in 2018 for refusing to use a transgender student's pronouns.  The West Point School Board agreed Monday to pay Peter Vlaming, a former French...

Support for LGBTQ equality dipped slightly in 2024 but remains at historically high levels, according to data released Thursday by GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy organization. Eighty percent of non-LGBTQ adults surveyed by the group in January said they support equal rights for the LGBTQ community, down from 84 percent who said the same in...

Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who’s emerged as a top contender for Vice President Harris’s running mate, helped turn Minnesota into a refuge for LGBTQ Americans, signing laws that shield access to gender-affirming health care and abortion, ban conversion therapy and make it illegal for libraries to ban books solely because they have LGBTQ themes...

West Virginia will take its fight over whether its Medicaid program must cover gender-affirming surgeries to the Supreme Court, the state’s Republican attorney general announced Thursday. “Once again, the state of West Virginia is going to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said at a news conference in Bridgeport, W.Va. The announcement is the latest...

LGBTQ Americans and advocacy groups are sounding alarm bells over the selection of Sen. JD Vance as former President Trump’s running mate. In addition to a history of anti-LGBTQ statements, the Ohio Republican is the primary sponsor of at least two pieces of federal legislation threatening to sharply roll back transgender rights, including one proposal...

House Republicans voted Thursday to overturn a Biden administration rule bolstering federal nondiscrimination protections for transgender students, the latest GOP victory over changes made to Title IX, the civil rights law preventing sex discrimination in schools and education programs that receive government funding. The Education Department in April unveiled a final set of sweeping changes...

Six veteran drag performers and former “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestants on Thursday announced the launch of Drag PAC, the nation’s first political action committee led by drag artists. Founding members include drag powerhouses Jinkx Monsoon, BenDeLaCreme, Peppermint and Monét X Change. The PAC, they said, is their response to rising anti-LGBTQ hate and violence and legislation that threatens...

The Supreme Court’s decision to hear a challenge to Tennessee’s gender-affirming care ban for minors sets the stage for a potentially blockbuster case implicating transgender protections.  It marks the first time the justices will weigh in on the issue, which could impact laws passed by 24 Republican-led states since 2021 that ban medications like puberty...

Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) on Wednesday announced it was investigating a holiday-themed drag show in South Florida. It said the department had received “multiple complaints” alleging a Dec. 26 performance of Drag Fans’ “A Drag Queen Christmas” was “sexually explicit” and “marketed to children.” “The Department is actively investigating this matter,...