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Andra Day as Billie Holiday: On the left, being handcuffed in a court room, on the right, singing into an old-fashioned microphone

Entertainment

New Billie Holiday film tells shocking true story of how the government ‘chased her down’

Reiss Smith - February 26, 2021

LGBT+ activists rally in front of the Supreme Court in October 2019

There’s a giant loophole in the historic Supreme Court ruling which means not all LGBT+ Americans are protected

Emma Powys Maurice - June 17, 2020

World

One of Haiti’s most prominent and staunch queer campaigners has been found dead after threats of violence

Vic Parsons - November 26, 2019

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US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 23, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland.

Trump administration takes up ‘civil rights’ complaint from anti-LGBT group

Nick Duffy - August 12, 2019

Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, pauses while speaking during a press conference announcing a lawsuit by the NAACP

Current Affairs

NAACP endorses Equality Act to extend civil rights laws to LGBT+ people

Nick Duffy - March 25, 2019

Current Affairs

Anti-LGBT group asks Supreme Court to review ruling that would allow trans discrimination in the workplace

Ella Braidwood - July 29, 2018

Explainer

Meet Audre Lorde: The blind, black lesbian poet and civil rights activist that revolutionised black education

Bea Mitchell - April 30, 2018

Current Affairs

Religion is no excuse for workplace discrimination, says US court of appeal

Jasmine Andersson - March 9, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - DECEMBER 05: Same-sex marriage cake toppers are displayed on a shelf at Fantastico on December 5, 2017 in San Francisco, California. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a civil rights case over a Colorado baker's refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Current Affairs

Colorado Republicans vote to strip funding from civil rights body for enforcing LGBT rights

Nick Duffy - February 14, 2018

Current Affairs

What would Martin Luther King Jr think of the LGBT rights movement?

Nick Duffy - January 15, 2018

Hugh Hefner attends Playboy's 2013 Playmate Of The Year lunch

Current Affairs

This is what Playboy founder Hugh Hefner thought about AIDS and gay rights

Mayer Nissim - September 28, 2017

Jussie Smollett attack: President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Hispanic pastors at the Roosevelt Room of the White House January 25, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Current Affairs

Senate urged to block Trump’s anti-LGBT ‘civil rights’ chief

Nick Duffy - September 5, 2017

Current Affairs

Republican bill would re-write civil rights laws to stop protecting trans people

Nick Duffy - July 17, 2017

Current Affairs

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos slammed by Democratic senators for cutting civil rights enforcement

Meka Beresford - June 28, 2017

Current Affairs

Laverne Cox meets the trans teen who could change history

Bobby Rae - February 21, 2017

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Civil Rights

New Billie Holiday film tells shocking true story of how the government ‘chased her down’

There’s a giant loophole in the historic Supreme Court ruling which means not all LGBT+ Americans are protected

One of Haiti’s most prominent and staunch queer campaigners has been found dead after threats of violence

Latest Posts

Trump administration takes up ‘civil rights’ complaint from anti-LGBT group

NAACP endorses Equality Act to extend civil rights laws to LGBT+ people

Anti-LGBT group asks Supreme Court to review ruling that would allow trans discrimination in the workplace

Meet Audre Lorde: The blind, black lesbian poet and civil rights activist that revolutionised black education

Religion is no excuse for workplace discrimination, says US court of appeal

Colorado Republicans vote to strip funding from civil rights body for enforcing LGBT rights

What would Martin Luther King Jr think of the LGBT rights movement?

This is what Playboy founder Hugh Hefner thought about AIDS and gay rights

Senate urged to block Trump’s anti-LGBT ‘civil rights’ chief

Republican bill would re-write civil rights laws to stop protecting trans people

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos slammed by Democratic senators for cutting civil rights enforcement

Laverne Cox meets the trans teen who could change history

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