Table of Contents:
  • 1. LGBTQ and the law
  • Legalizing identity: LGBTQ rights and laws
  • Onslaught of anti-LGBTQ 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 Motluck
  • 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
  • LGBT students are not safe at school / Marissa Higgins
  • California approves LGBT history lessons for classrooms / Associated Press
  • 5. LGBTQ in 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.