ANALYSIS: More responsibilities and more challenges are on the horizon

5 queer and trans stories we’re watching: August 4

Islamic conservatives have ramped up their attacks on LGBTQ+ people since Erdoğan’s re-election

OPINION: Federal Democrats have so far rarely directly addressed growing anti-trans rhetoric. That changed last week

5 queer and trans stories we’re watching: August 2

ANALYSIS: From religious-based discrimination to protecting yet more bigoted bakers, we run down the legal causes and cases to keep an eye on

Queer and trans librarians, activists and everyday people are keeping access to LGBTQ2S+ literature alive

5 queer and trans stories we’re watching: July 31

OPINION: Conservatives are courting voters using the little trick that they’ve always turned—demonizing a minority

5 queer and trans stories we’re watching: July 28

6 queer and trans stories we’re watching: July 26

5 queer and trans stories we’re watching: July 24

Social media’s body positivity might only apply to those who fit into familiar beauty ideals. Is AI systematically deleting the creators who sit outside the norm?

OPINION: Today’s panic over transness and kids is largely driven by the overactive imaginations of people who have never met a trans person in their lives

5 queer and trans stories we’re watching: July 21

Queer Youth Assemble is leading protests across the country after a trio of rulings that endanger queer and racialized people

Trans Canadians celebrate potential update to binary body scanners, but say staff training is needed to ensure the benefits stick

OPINION: There are reasons to worry that go far beyond “Straight Pride” T-shirts

Power

All three Canadian queer cabinet ministers promoted during shuffle

British rowing bans trans women; Indiana trans kids win in court; and more.

‘Our lives are in danger here’: LGBTQ+ activists flee Turkey after Erdoğan’s re-election

At last week’s federal hearing on youth gender affirming care, Democrats finally stood up for trans people

Tributes and outrage in wake of O’Shae Sibley stabbing, anti-trans vitriol comes for Doc Martens, and more

Here are the big LGBTQ2S+ rights cases that could be coming to the U.S. Supreme Court next

Queer libraries are on the front lines of the fight against book bans

Canadians win against anti-LGBTQ+ Italian party, Women’s World Cup players show Pride despite ban and more

Ohio Republicans are trying to limit the power of ballot measures—and using transphobia to circumvent democracy

Michigan outlaws conversion therapy, Canadian labour unions fight anti-LGBTQ2S+ hate, Adore Delano comes out as trans and more

Celebrities call out comedian’s transphobic rant, trans men protest Miss Italy’s ban on trans women and more

‘Barbie’ takes the world by storm, lesbian rights in Italy and the U.K. and more

Trans parents have always existed

Grindr employees join hot union summer, first out gay coach in major men’s U.S. sports and more

Meet the queer youth organizers taking on the U.S. Supreme Court

Calgary Airport trials first gender-neutral security screenings in Canada

Controversial photo ops are a warning sign of shifting conservative political goals