Their criticisms were read aloud in their absence during a ceremony at the Justice Department.
There might be fewer arguments about bathrooms, for starters.
Activists at the Equality Town Hall repeatedly called on the 2020 Democrats to focus more on violence against transgender women of color.
Was the movie a landmark in representation or distressingly exploitative? It was both and so much more.
In “How We Fight for Our Lives,” the poet Saeed Jones recalls a coming-of-age marked by sexual violence and bigotry as well as tenderness.
The court seemed divided along predictable lines, with a possible exception: Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, a member of the conservative majority.
In its first full term since the arrival of Justice Kavanaugh, the court could issue a number of blockbuster decisions on divisive issues in an election year.
And conservatives could be the big winners.
A group of activists is trying to make tango less dogmatic about traditional gender roles, and more assertive about rooting out sexual harassment and assault.
Citing a lack of evidence, the agency will require Gilead to conduct further trials in women.
His papacy has been a consistent rebuke to American culture-war Christianity in politics.
On Saturday, Francis will create 13 new cardinals who reflect his pastoral priorities. He will now have named more than half of those who will elect his successor.
A British agency employee said a policy on pronouns went against his religious beliefs. A tribunal found his stance to be “incompatible with human dignity.”
In New York, where the first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981, fewer than 2,500 new cases were reported in 2018, the lowest in many years.
The family and classmates of Channing Smith, a high school junior, said his death was a result of “social media bullying” and called for a thorough investigation.
President Joko Widodo faces pressure to revoke a law curbing anti-graft efforts and to kill measures that would forbid abortion and sex outside marriage.
The landmark show’s “Musicale Finale” is a bizarre Broadway-style goodbye that flattens out some of TV’s most finely shaded characters.
The killings, many of them against transgender women of color, have deeply disturbed groups already familiar with threats to their safety.
A singular Manhattan block grows to include many orientations — but does it erase black history?
The new film “Judy” offers another chance to bask in her glory, 50 years after the demise of her fairy tale gone wrong.
The man is also a person of interest in what the authorities believe was an unrelated killing three months earlier.
The “Creatable World” dolls can be styled with short or long hair, and skirts, pants or both.
President Joko Widodo’s decision to limit the power of Indonesia’s anticorruption commission has helped set off protests before his second term begins.
A museum exhibition offers an empathetic look at the intimate lives of sex workers in the L.G.B.T. community.
In a new memoir and an album of songs they wrote as teenagers, the feminist pop stars look back at their traumas, triumphs and life as identical twins.
Gerald Bostock said he lost his job after joining a gay softball league. The justices will decide whether a landmark civil rights law protects him.
Arquette’s sister Alexis, a transgender actress and cabaret performer, died in 2016. She was 47.
Senators Warren and Booker shone in a forum focused on the lives of L.G.B.T.Q. Americans.
The Rev. Tadeusz Rydzyk has delivered millions of votes for Poland’s governing right-wing Law and Justice party, which in turn has helped him build a business empire.
Pressed about his decades-old opposition to same-sex marriage, Mr. Biden pushed back, saying he didn’t “have to evolve.”
A graphic tribute to the landmark Naiad Press.
From McCarthyism to the mob to Trump, Cohn enabled evil. Why did elites embrace him?
Alvin Baltrop’s photographs of the abandoned Hudson River piers and the people who populated them in the 1970s and ’80s have been all but ignored. Until now.
Mr. Buck finally faced consequences this week as prosecutors charged him with operating a drug house and accused him of being a predator who targeted vulnerable men.
And why it’s not enough.
Demi Burnett and Kristian Haggerty’s love story on “Bachelor in Paradise” was handled with nuance and authenticity, two words that run counter to the show’s reputation.