LGBTQ

As president-elect, Biden is making sweeping promises to LGBTQ activists, proposing to carry out virtually every major proposal on their wish lists. Among them: Lifting the Trump administration’s near-total ban on military service for transgender people, barring federal contractors from anti-LGBTQ job discrimination, and creating high-level LGBTQ-rights positions at the State Department, the National Security Council and other federal...

Daniela, a transgender woman who was the victim of a brutal attack in MacArthur Park in October, says she is “alive” and “fighting.” The brutal attack adds to the list of hate crimes that, according to the FBI, continues to grow.

LGBTQ themed films are finally finding their time in the holiday spotlight. Here are a few films to keep an eye out for this holiday season.

“Mean Girls” actor Jonathan Bennett said he never saw LGBTQ characters like himself in Christmas movies when he was young. So the opportunity to star in the Hallmark Channel’s first Christmas movie with a major LGBTQ storyline, “The Christmas House,” was more meaningful than most. Bennett joins LX News to talk about his onscreen and real life love story.

The Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter has written hits for some of the biggest names in music. Now she’s out with a new single, “Sharkbait.”

The two-time Grammy Award winner released a futuristic, Christmas-themed video for his first single in over a year.

Mauree Turner made history by winning a seat in Oklahoma’s House of Representatives, making them the first openly nonbinary person elected to a state legislature in the country. Turner, who is also the first Muslim legislator in the Sooner State, joins LX News to talk about the importance of representation for the Black, Muslim and LGBTQ community, and making sure...

Nevada voters overturned an 18-year-old ban on same-sex marriage, making the state the first to enshrine gay couples’ right to marry in its constitution, NBC News reports.

Taylor Small made history when she became Vermont’s first openly transgender state legislator. Small joins LX News to discuss what her progressive win means for all young queer and trans people across the country and how she will continue her work on health equity and non-citizen voting.

Across the nation, LGBTQ candidates achieved milestone victories in Tuesday’s election.

GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate said “everything is on the ballot” for LGBTQ Americans on Election Day, including the fate of gay marriage, and advised voters to look at the candidates’ records on gay rights when they make their choice for president.

The gay penguins strike again, NBC News reports.

Billy Porter is busy

A 24-year-old man was charged Friday with trying to kill two transgender women — one of them twice — in separate attacks in MacArthur Park.

While National Coming Out Day encouraged many young people to come out as LGBTQ for the first time, the CEO of The Trevor Project, Amit Paley, stresses the importance of young people coming out in their own time without outside pressure.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, which will create a three-digit 988 hotline number for suicide prevention and mental health crises starting in July 2022. Sam Brinton of the Trevor Project joined LX News to discuss how this service will be life-saving for the LGBTQ youth community.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling says she is returning an award from a human rights group linked to the Kennedy family after the president of the organization criticized her comments about transgender issues.

Shalini Bathina joins LX News to discuss Apple TV’s new series “Little Voice,” about mustering the courage to find one’s authentic voice. The show showcases not only South Asian representation, but LGBTQ as well.

The film “Breaking Fast” explores an LGBTQ relationship with a Muslim character as the protagonist and is receiving much acclaim. We had a chance to chat with starring actors Haaz Sleiman and Michael Cassidy, who pull back curtain on the award-winning movie.

The House Ways and Means Committee issued a scathing 34-page report this week accusing the Trump administration of “intentionally” harming LGBTQ Americans and violating a congressional mandate to act in the best interest of children by permitting South Carolina’s government-funded adoption and foster care agencies to turn away same-sex prospective parents, NBC News reports. The report, “Children at Risk:...