Tag: LGBT Issues

The White House said Tuesday that President Trump would enforce an executive order from President Obama that defends LGBTQ rights. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Trump to enforce Obama’s LGBTQ anti-discrimination order

Kyle Feldscher · January 31, 2017 12:10 pm

The Boy Scouts of America on Monday announced effective immediately it will begin accepting children into the program based on the gender checked on the application. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Boy Scouts now open to trans children

Anna Giaritelli · January 31, 2017 3:43 am

The bills would require transgender people use bathrooms that matched their birth gender. (AP Photo/Emery P. Dalesio, File )

Ten states pursuing their own ‘bathroom bill’

Kelly Cohen · January 21, 2017 6:39 am

There’s a ‘Queer Dance Party’ going on in front of Mike Pence’s house

There’s a ‘Queer Dance Party’ going on in front of Mike Pence’s house

Anna Giaritelli · January 19, 2017 3:24 am

Chelsea Manning is losing treatment for gender dysphoria

Chelsea Manning is losing treatment for gender dysphoria

Anna Giaritelli · January 19, 2017 2:04 am

Caitlyn Jenner will attend Trump’s inauguration

Caitlyn Jenner will attend Trump’s inauguration

Gabby Morrongiello · January 18, 2017 10:02 pm

These are the 8 questions Obama faced in his last ever press conference

Beltway Confidential

These are the 8 questions Obama faced in his last ever press conference

Becket Adams · January 18, 2017 8:49 pm

Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, and PayPal founder and Trump advisor Peter Thiel, center, listen as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders in December. At Trump's nominating convention, Thiel helped the candidate's outreach to the LGBT community when he said, "I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Washington Secrets

‘Gay Inc.’ ripped for opposing Trump, refusing his outreach

Paul Bedard · January 18, 2017 4:21 pm

Obama ‘could not be prouder’ of his LGBTQ record

Obama ‘could not be prouder’ of his LGBTQ record

Kelly Cohen · January 18, 2017 3:24 pm

In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, file photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., after a hearing in his court martial. A northeast Kansas judge will make a final determination Wednesday, April 23, 2014, on Manning's request to change her name from Bradley Edward Manning to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning. Manning is serving a 35-year sentence for giving reams of classified U.S. government information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

LGBT group: ‘Chelsea Manning is no hero’

Paul Bedard · January 18, 2017 12:09 am

General James Mattis, Rep. Mike Pompeo, and Dr. Ben Carson were asked the same question. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Democrats grill Trump nominees on gay marriage again and again and again

Philip Wegmann · January 12, 2017 10:54 pm

Kamala Harris Grills CIA Nominee Pompeo on Gay Rights and Climate Change

Kamala Harris Grills CIA Nominee Pompeo on Gay Rights and Climate Change

Jim Swift · January 12, 2017 6:37 pm