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About 80 people signed up to testify at a hearing Tuesday in the Texas House regarding a bill to ban transgender students from participating in school sports. The proposed law would mandate that Texas youth only be allowed to compete in sports under the sex on their birth certificate, a rule already in place under the

This Pride Month, we are once again reminded that despite great strides of progress made for the LGBTQ community over the past few decades, the fight for full LGBTQ acceptance is far from over. At a time when the number of out LGBTQ people continues to grow, we should take Pride Month to celebrate who

Grab the remote, set your DVR or queue up your streaming service of choice! GLAAD is bringing you the LGBTQ highlights on TV this week.

Full disclosure: I’m a huge fan of POSE. I’ve been on the journey with the show and its groundbreaking characters since it was only industry chatter as a forthcoming series from Ryan Murphy until the very last episode of the final season. The end of POSE was emotional for me. The series provided a national

The rise in efforts to ban specific topics from school libraries—largely books about LGBTQ people and race and racism—is inextricable from long-standing efforts by extremist groups to increasingly use schools as a political battleground. The removal of books from school libraries based on personal opposition to their content is illegal. In 1982, after the Moral

Amy Schneider, a transgender woman from Oakland, California, talks with Alex Schmider, GLAAD’s Associate Director of Transgender Representation, about how she’s navigating her newfound fame, when she got the Jeopardy! call, and the message she hopes transgender people can take from her success on the game show.

Two bills are moving through the state’s legislature, with one stipulating a felony ban on medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care to trans youth.

Disclaimer: Language and terminology varies between countries and cultures. Zamora uses the word “transexual” to describe herself and refers to “transexuality” throughout the interview. According to the GLAAD Media Reference Guide, it is best practice to use the word “transgender” to describe trans people unless they refer to themselves otherwise.   Interview was conducted in Spanish