The recent news that California has a $76 billion budget surplus was a pleasant surprise, especially after the COVID pandemic enforced belt-tightening last year. Governor Gavin Newsom, who is facing a ...

The US Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender identity care for transgender minors earlier this summer has fueled ongoing polarization around LGBTQ issues and controversial ...

The bill would add seventh to 12th grade students under a current law that prohibits educators from discussing gender ...

Democrats continue to obsess about why they lost the 2024 election, despite the obvious (a superannuated president who stepped down at the last minute and a country unhappy about the effects of ...

The head of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) has criticized recent remarks by Pope Leo XIV on LGBTQ issues, saying they risk sidelining discrimination concerns. In his first major ...

LGBTQ young adults have higher rates of suicide risk than their counterparts. A new study from the University of Michigan aimed to find out why.

Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul singled out Houston's lesbian mayor for criticism, saying she had tried to "invade the church to enforce (her) own opinion on marriage." Candidate Bobby ...

On a special episode (first released on June 26, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Stonewall veterans helped ignite a global movement for LGBTQ+ rights. Now, over 50 years later, they’re battling a new ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed a longtime LGBTQ advocate and city employee to, what Johnson calls, the nation's first big ...

Pope Leo XIV and Jesuit Father James Martin, editor-at-large at America, at the Vatican on Sept. 1, 2025. (Credit: Vatican News.) Listen ROME – As the church grapples with how various ‘hot-button’ ...

The past two decades have brought steady if uneven progress on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning people. Landmark court rulings have decriminalized ...

Several Democratic candidates seemed to throw President Barack Obama under the metaphorical bus Friday night, as they sought to illustrate how they didn't take as long as other Democrats to "evolve" ...