LGBTQ Studies: 2000s to Present

The HIV/AIDS epidemic and the success of the battle for marriage equality have been, over the past thirty-five years, the two events that have most affected LGBT lives.

Washington Post. While the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community has become more visible and won more legal protections in recent years, state lawmakers have increased attempts to pass legislation that could restrict civil rights for LGBT people.

GLSEN. 2007

Over the past few decades, brave LGBTQ plaintiffs from around the nation have stood up for their rights by asking the Supreme Court affirm their fundamental liberties.

The purpose of this Research Brief is to illustrate the experiences of transgender and nonbinary students in K-12 schools by: 1) describing transgender and nonbinary students’ experiences with hostile school climate, 2) examining transgender and nonbinary students’ reports of access to school supports, and 3) whether and how these supports provide benefits specifically to this population of students. Further, we explore whether there are differences in both access to and benefits of these resources for transgender and nonbinary students and cisgender LGBQ students.

Laverne Cox has emerged as a public leader of the trans movement, using her prominence to make the case for equal rights and touring the country giving a speech titled “Ain’t I A Woman?” When Cox says it, that refrain is not a question.

Oyez. Lawrence v. Texas, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (6–3) on June 26, 2003, that a Texas state law criminalizing certain intimate sexual conduct between two consenting adults of the same sex was unconstitutional.

Despite the gains made for gay rights in recent years, homeless LGBT youth have benefited little. Instead, their numbers on the streets have swelled, representing up to an estimated 40 percent of the nation’s young adult homeless population, data shows.

Essay by trans author and activist Julia Serrano.

A federal judge found in favor of transgender student Gavin Grimm, whose efforts to use the boys’ bathrooms at his high school reached the Supreme Court and thrust him into the middle of a national debate about the rights of transgender students.