LGBTQ

The Trevor Project launched a chatbot, Riley, who is designed to train counselors to speak with LGBTQ youth who are struggling with issues like coming out, or trouble at school. “AI is very powerful and is not often used to benefit marginalized communities who need the most help,” says Wilson Lee, The Trevor Project’s machine learning engineering manager.

Arkansas’ governor has vetoed legislation that would have made his state the first to ban gender confirming treatments for transgender youth, though lawmakers could enact the restriction over his objections.

Despite a growing number of athletes coming out as LGBTQ in college, fewer than 3% of NCAA D-I athletes compete in departments that fully protect their LGBTQ identities. Ohio State University, Boston University, the University of Miami and the University of Southern California were among the schools that performed the best.

Twenty years ago, the mayor of Amsterdam married four couples in City Hall as the Netherlands became the first country with legalized same-sex marriages.

As the Senate prepares to vote on the Equality Act, a new poll released Tuesday indicates that an overwhelming majority of Americans across religious and political affiliations support anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people

No relationship is perfect. And COVID-19 is forcing many couples to face that fact rather than hiding from it. Sex and relationship therapist Todd Baratz joined LX News to explain why your #relationshipgoals need to leave room for human imperfection.

Rep. Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat, said Monday that he plans to reintroduce a bill that will expand a data collection rule for financial institutions to include LGBTQ-owned businesses. Torres, the first gay Afro Latino elected to Congress, told NBC News that the LGBTQ Business Equal Credit Enforcement and Investment Act will amend part of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act,...

The U.S. House has once again passed the sweeping anti-discrimination bill known as the Equality Act, sending it to the closely-divided Senate where it will face a tougher road to passage. David Johns, the executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, joined LX News to make a case for why the Equality Act is needed.

The Democratic-led House passed a bill that would enshrine LGBTQ protections in the nation’s labor and civil rights laws

According to a new Gallup poll of 15,000 people over the age of 18, the percent of Americans who self-identify as something other than heterosexual has jumped from 3.5 to 5.6 percent since 2012.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., tweeted a video of herself hanging a sign mocking Congresswoman Marie Newman, D-Ill., for putting a transgender pride flag outside her office. Newman has a transgender daughter.

A is for Andrea Jenkins, the first openly trans Black woman elected to public office. B is for Bayard Rustin, an advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. C is for Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright Countee Cullen. These are the ABCs of Black LGBTQ pioneers.

An estimated 5.6% of Americans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, according to a new Gallup report. That’s up from 4.5% in 2017, the last year polling on the issue was conducted by the organization, NBC News reports.

The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted two churches over policies deemed to be too inclusive of LGBTQ people and two more for employing pastors convicted of sex offenses

The Chicago Black Drag Council partnered with local businesses and a nonprofit to share some love to residents this Valentine’s Day at an LGBTQ-friendly senior living facility in Lake View. The “Valentine’s Day Senior Prize” project was a partnership between the council, a local nonprofit “Our Art of Giving” and several bars along North Halsted including Progress Bar, Roscoe’s...

Pedro Pascal, star of “The Mandalorian” and “Wonder Woman 1984,” took to social media this week to celebrate his younger sister, Lux Pascal, who just came out to the world as transgender.

Homelessness is a crisis among young people in the LGBTQ community. The problem is even more pronounced among transgender people — about a third living in the U.S. become homeless at some point in their lives. Casa de Zulma is the first publicly-funded home for trans people trying to get out of homelessness. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories...

One in five transgender people have experienced homelessness in their lives. Ceyenne Doroshow is the founder of G.L.I.T.S., an advocacy organization that opened the first Black trans-owned housing community in New York City. Doroshow talked to NBCLX’s Ngozi Ekeledo about why it’s so important to give trans youth a place to call home.

JoJo Siwa opens up about the support she has received since revealing she is part of the LGBTQ+ community and her upcoming Nickelodeon musical.

President Biden directed the Pentagon last week to lift former President Trump’s ban on transgender military service members. Zeke Stokes, a producer of the documentary TransMilitary, joined LX News to discuss why this move is important for all trans Americans.