A measure that would protect students from harassment based on gender identity and sexual orientation was voted down by Congress on the afternoon of July 14, because some people are terrible.

The Pentagon is reportedly making arrangements to lift the ban on transgender people serving in the military as soon as this week.

Of all the stories the media has covered in 2015, Caitlyn Jenner’s public transition has been one that, for the most part, has made me feel the most America, fuck yeah fuzzies. What could have been a study in hate ended up being just the opposite (even though she now has to deal with all the bullshit that comes along…

“Tel Aviv Pride is the biggest pride parade in Asia,” boomed Olof Lavesson, a member of Swedish parliament, in a keynote address at the 40 Years of Pride global conference in Tel Aviv last Thursday. The audience laughed.

Earlier today we published a story on Passion Star, a transgender woman incarcerated in Texas who says she’s been subject to rape and violent attacks at the hands of other inmates for the past 12 years. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice did not move Star into safekeeping, a version of protective custody, until…