Flex Your Vote: Mike Ruiz, Others On LGBTQA+ Vote
Eight of America’s leading fitness photographers have joined forces on “Flex Your Vote,” a new campaign that aims to encourage the LGBTQ community and its…
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New Study Dispels Misconceptions Around Public Safety, Boosts Yes on 3 Campaign
Williams Institute study illustrates lack of public safety concerns around equitable access to public spaces for transgender people; Yes on 3 Campaign charges ahead By:…
Scapegoating vs. Solidarity: Codifying Discrimination & Second Class Citizenship
By treating citizens of this country in such a manner, the second class citizenship feeling develops By: Keegan O’Brien*/Special to TRT— On Wednesday evening March…
Trans Women are 49 Times More Likely to Have HIV & Here’s Why You Should Care
By: Diane Anderson-Minshall*/Special to TRT— Let me tell you about a woman I met. Let’s call her Trina. On the surface, we have some similarities….
FL: About 328K LGBT Workers Lack Employment Discrimination Protections
LOS ANGELES—About 328,000 LGBT workers in Florida are vulnerable to employment discrimination absent explicit statewide legal protections, according to a new report co-authored by Christy…
New Report Highlights the Need to Increase Population-Based Data about Transgender People and Other Gender Minorities
Current practices fail to identify transgender and other gender minority respondents Currently, most federally-supported population-based surveys do not include measures to identify transgender and other…
Op-Ed: “Counting” Transgender and Other Gender Minority People in the U.S.
Gender Identity in U.S. Surveillance (GenIUSS) Group Releases Groundbreaking Recommendations on Best Practices for Asking Questions to Identify Transgender and Other Gender Minority Respondents on…
LGBT Latin@s Largest Minority, Fastest Growing, New Reports Show
By: Chuck Colbert /TRT Reporter— There are an estimated 1.4 million adult LGBT Latin@s in the U.S., according to a recently released report from a…
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Boston, MA Trans nondiscrimination policy approved in public school district The Medford School Committee has approved a new gender identity…
Op-Ed: Making the Unaccompanied Homeless Youth Commission Work for LGBT Youth
By: Kara Suffredini*, Esq. and Robyn Frost**/Special for TRT– There are an estimated 1.3 million children and teens in this country who are experiencing homelessness….
Prop 8 Could Head to The U.S. Supreme Court
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– A glimmer of politics showed through Tuesday (June 5) when the full Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals declined a…
Marriage Equality in NJ: Positive Effects For 16,875 Couples Raising 6,650+ Children
LOS ANGELES, CA – As the New Jersey legislature votes on the legalization of marriage for same-sex couples, the Williams Institute, a leading research institute…