LGBTQ in the 21st century

1. LGBTQ and the law

Legalizing identity: LGBTQ rights and laws

Onslaught of anti-LGBT bills in 2017 has activists "playing defense" / Susan Miller

The Equality Act is essential in the fight for LGBTQ rights / Michelle Chen

U.S. court rules 1964 Civil Rights Law protects LGBT workers from bias / Reuters

No, LGBTQ Americans aren't in the clear after Trump's religious liberty order / Michelangelo Signorile

What Kentucky's religious freedom bill could mean for LGBTQ students / Iman Smith

The many dreadful ways that the Trump administration will hurt LGBTQ health care / Daniel Summers

In conservative America, small cities stand up for LGBT rights / Letitia Stein

In religious freedom debate, two American values clash / Tom Gjelten

Trans activist Sarah McBride to make history at DNC / Emma Margolin

2. LGBTQ and the world

The global perspective: LGBTQ rights around the world

Most countries score an F on our LGBT human rights report card / Susan Dicklitch-Nelson and Berwood Yost

Ontario's multiparent LGBTQ families have another reason to celebrate this season / Alison Motluk

Time to panic / Masha Gessen

The coming Islamic culture war / Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Nathaniel Barr

U.N. experts condemn killing and torture of gay men in Chechnya / Sewell Chan

3. LGBTQ culture

Culture in evolution: LGBTQ people in society

"Discrimination is doing its dirty work": a new survey looks at the effects of anti-LGBTQ hate / German Lopez

Is it time we agreed on a gender-neutral singular pronoun? / Gary Nunn

The gender identity terms you need to know / Cydney Adams

Corporate America's evolution on L.G.B.T. rights / Richard Socarides

Exclusive: gay man explains his petition to "drop the T" in LGBT / David Marcus

Infinite identities / Katy Steinmetz

Transgender issues are driving a wedge in LGBT community, says activist ousted from Pride Parade / Bryan Polcyn and Stephen Davis

Why the Trump administration won't ask about LGBT Americans on the 2020 census / Emma Green

4. LGBTQ in the schools

Teaching and learning gender and sexuality: LGBTQ in the schools

A letter from an Ivy League admissions dean / James Freeman

Could Betsy De Vos be an ally for transgender students? It's complicated / Story Hinckley

Minnesota kindergarten students forced to confront gender identity / Kelsey Harkness

LBGT students are not safe at school / Marissa Higgins

California approves LGBT history lessons for classrooms / Associated Press

5. LGBTQ and the family

Family Matters: LGBTQ parenting and families / Micah L. Issitt

Texas poised to allow adoptions to be blocked on religious basis / Ian Lovett

This is what it's like to raise a gender-neutral child / Bo Hanna

I'm a gay parent, still trying to find my identity in the LGBTQ community /

Amber Leventry

Why raising a gender neutral child is a terrible idea / Rachel Lu

How paid leave policies can negatively affect LGBTQ families / Rebecca Gale

For many queer adults, parenting still isn't part of the picture / John Culhane

Reimagining what families can-and do-look like / Elizabeth Morehead.