President Andrzej Duda won a narrow victory after a bitter, polarizing campaign that tore at the social fabric of the country. The results are likely to be challenged in the Supreme Court.
Three writers share how they revealed their disability, to a family member, to a love interest on a dating app and to oneself.
The Brazilian model, who is in the magazine’s swimsuit issue, was also the first transgender woman to work for Victoria’s Secret and grace the cover of Vogue magazine.
Doling out victories to both sides, the court led by Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to strive to avoid charges of partisanship.
The bill avoids the term “marriage,” but allows for couples to adopt children and jointly own property. Though approved by the country’s cabinet, the plan has to get through Parliament to become law.
Recent decisions are about safeguarding pluralism, not taking sides in the culture wars.
Former employees at V, the title he helped found, are criticizing his leadership there, as an industry reconsiders past norms of judgment and exclusion.
The case was the court’s latest consideration of the relationship between the government and religion.
This year, the Kilroys collective turned a spotlight on work by female and transgender writers whose productions were canceled or postponed.
A drug injected every two months is more effective at preventing H.I.V. infection than a daily pill, scientists report.
It still refuses to ordain me because of my sexuality. So why do I stay?
A reader offers an idea to spice up the Democratic Convention this summer. Also: Transgender health care; repurpose the Queensboro Bridge; hope in a sailor’s journey.
Homeless shelters would have the right to turn away transgender people from single-sex facilities that correspond to their gender identity.
Homeless shelters would have the right to turn away transgender people from single-sex facilities that correspond to their gender identity.
The victims were part of what the Human Rights Campaign has called an “epidemic of violence” against L.G.B.T.Q. people in the United States.
Before the word “homosexuality” existed, he argued that same-sex attraction was innate, and that those who experienced it should be treated the same as anyone else.
A film about persecuted gays and lesbians in Chechnya uses digital manipulation to guard their identities without losing their humanity. The step raises familiar questions about nonfiction movies.
During this fertile period the way revelers received dance music — and what was considered dance music — shifted as new kinds of spaces geared toward L.G.B.T.Q. participants multiplied.
Opportunities for women to unite during Pride can be surprisingly scarce. Covid-19 certainly didn’t help.
David France’s documentary follows a group of courageous Russian activists working to rescue victims of an anti-L.G.B.T.Q. crackdown.
Young women feeling alienated by dating apps and bar culture are finding love on their For You pages.
A documentary on L.G.B.T.Q. refugees becomes progressively engaging as its subjects’ paths diverge.
Issues include limited access to community support and counseling and, in some cases, quarantining with unsupportive family members.
The 50th anniversary of the first Pride parade in the city was, because of the pandemic, a subdued affair.
A quiet event marked the 50th anniversary of the first Pride parade, but a counter parade drew a large contingent, and some protesters clashed with police.
The A.C.L.U. says protections for religion already exist; a pastor sees possibility in congressional legislation. Also: Generation Z’s hopes and fears.
Hundreds joined a march in Taipei, making it one of the few places in the world to proceed with such an event during the coronavirus pandemic.
At no point have black trans people shared fully in the gains of the L.G.B.T.Q. or racial justice movements. This may be changing.
The coronavirus has led to the canceling of the big gatherings that have defined Pride. For many, that means missing out, for now, on an important moment of visibility and acceptance.
In an influential book, he defied the idea that being gay, as he was, is an illness, and took on psychiatry’s “history of homophobia.” He died of the coronavirus.
Coming out repeatedly to my grandmother with Alzheimer’s allowed me to fully embrace my queer identity.
These comedians talk about their experiences in the industry, and wanting audiences to look beyond their gender identity.
Our culture writers offer suggestions for what to watch or listen to, and how to celebrate Pride Month as it winds down.
His new memoir “Lot Six” traces the Syrian-Jewish enclave that spawned him, the instructor who unnerved him, and the biting comedy that made his name.
Also this week, how to help reinvent your workplace.
The record company was formed in 1973 with the goals of telling queer women’s stories and putting profits in the pockets of gay artists working outside the mainstream music industry.
“I was young and in denial of my own sexuality.”
“I was young and in denial of my own sexuality.”
Human rights observers warn the document could be a tool to advance Mr. Pompeo’s religious beliefs and political aspirations, and not women’s and L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
Embracing the experiences of trans people means leaving old vocabularies behind.
It does not have to be all or nothing.
“People who feel different feel at home in Butoh,” said the founder of an annual performance series, which this year will take place online.
Mr. Biden’s support for same-sex marriage in 2012 was a reversal for him and a watershed moment in his shift — and the nation’s — on L.G.B.T.Q. issues.
The Supremes smack down a prehistoric president.
“We shouldn’t be screaming, ‘Trans Lives Matter,’ but we have to,” said Leiomy Maldonado, a ballroom icon. “We’re strong and we’re here to fight.”
June is Pride Month, but high rents and little-to-no income mean establishments including the Stonewall Inn are “facing an uncertain future.”
The ballroom community has vogued its way through decades of change and social unrest. But 2020 has meant more changes than ever before. Here’s why.
We asked transgender performers and writers about the depictions that made an impact on them. Their answers were complicated.
How we found the voice to tell a 155-year-old story of celebration and setbacks, historically and personally.
A week of decisions contained hidden and not-so-hidden messages from the court.
Born in China, he shared his intimate journey of transitioning on Instagram.
A Netflix documentary features interviews with Jen Richards, Laverne Cox and others in its look back through the decades at the representation of transgender people on screens.
The author and activist Alexander Chee asks: Are the parallels in the nature of the viruses, or just an old story about America that had never changed?
We’ll soon find out whether the court inflames the culture wars or cools them as its term winds down.
As more Republicans say they support at least some L.G.B.T.Q. protections, President Trump and party leaders continue to stand in opposition and particularly target transgender Americans.
Transgender Americans such as Rachel Tudor have been fighting for their rights at work, school and housing for years. On Monday, the Supreme Court gave them hope.
El fallo de la Corte Suprema que protege a las personas homosexuales y trans de discriminación en el trabajo fue, quizás, la evidencia más sólida de cómo los puntos de vista de los estadounidenses han cambiado en los últimos años.
Only some queer people get married, but almost all of them work.
Readers celebrate the decision and discuss how some conservatives like Justice Neil Gorsuch and Barry Goldwater have steered their own course.
Inspired by the civil rights movement, it was decades in the making.
Fifty years after the first Pride March, the authors Jericho Brown, Carmen Maria Machado and Thomas Page McBee reflect on a complicated moment for the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
In this absorbing documentary, a transgender man experiences pregnancy.
In an unexpected ruling, the Supreme Court said that the Civil Rights Act protects workers if they’re fired “merely for being gay or transgender.”
Conservative justices provide a historic L.G.B.T.Q. rights ruling: This is your morning tip sheet.
A little bit of good news, in a dire month for L.G.B.T.Q. people.
Why a surprise majority of judges ruled that the Civil Rights Act protects gay and transgender people from workplace discrimination.
The Minneapolis councilwoman, the first black, openly transgender woman to be elected to public office in the U.S., talks about racial equity, how poetry informs her work and where we go from here.
As the pandemic ravages the country, there are concerns that an already marginalized group will be further left behind.
Fifty years after the first march, prominent organizers and activists tell its story and talk about how it spread across the globe.
“The violence that’s affecting black trans women and black trans folks is finally getting the attention that it deserves,” an organizer of the Brooklyn march said.
So much for “But Gorsuch.”
The ruling focused on employment discrimination, but legal scholars say its language could force expanded civil rights protections in education, health care, housing and other areas of daily life.
The Supreme Court’s surprising 6-to-3 ruling in favor of gay and transgender rights was perhaps the strongest evidence yet of how fundamentally and unpredictably American views have changed.
A ruling that protects the rights of gay and transgender workers could affect how conservative groups operate their own institutions.
The Supreme Court says you can’t be fired for being gay or transgender.
The Supreme Court decision gives plaintiffs leverage, but companies large and small are still expected to face legal cases over their policies.
Charged with “inciting debauchery,” Sarah Hegazi was jailed and tortured.
One conservative group said the justice’s opinion in the L.G.B.T. rights case had betrayed the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose seat on the court he has held since 2017.
The feminists Gloria Steinem and S. Mona Sinha say the administration’s new rule erases trans people’s civil right to health care.
The court said the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination, applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Long a capital of nightlife, from ’70s discos to ’90s raves, the city is now home to a rich after-hours culture where anyone — of any race, gender or sexuality — is welcome.
Without their presence and contributions, queer aesthetics — and the arts at large — would be far less rich.
The coalition that fought against AIDS stigma and worked to slow the plague changed patients’ rights and contemporary protest movements.
It’s rare for a musician to shock anymore. Mikaela Straus says [expletive] that.