/tags/gay-rights gay rights en-US WLRN Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:00:00 GMT /news/2022-11-28/congress-considers-codifying-same-sex-marriage-after-long-battle-for-gay-rights Same-sex marriage was once a deeply divisive issue. Now, polls show over 70 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, and Congress is set to move forward with The Respect for Marriage Act. Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:00:00 GMT /news/2022-11-28/congress-considers-codifying-same-sex-marriage-after-long-battle-for-gay-rights Ari Shapiro, Jonaki Mehta /news/2021-12-27/ovations-global-network-uses-dance-culture-to-bring-lgbtq-community-together-in-palm-beach-county The nonprofit company is using a dance-based outreach program to attract and bring the LGBTQ+ community together during the pandemic. Mon, 27 Dec 2021 21:41:21 GMT /news/2021-12-27/ovations-global-network-uses-dance-culture-to-bring-lgbtq-community-together-in-palm-beach-county Wilkine Brutus /news/2021-06-16/gay-and-bisexual-men-are-now-allowed-to-donate-blood-in-england-scotland-and-wales The shift in health policy in most of the U.K. reverses a decades-old rule that limited donor eligibility on perceived risks of contracting HIV/AIDs and other sexually transmitted infections. Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:41:07 GMT /news/2021-06-16/gay-and-bisexual-men-are-now-allowed-to-donate-blood-in-england-scotland-and-wales Jaclyn Diaz /news/2021-05-10/u-s-will-protect-gay-and-transgender-people-against-discrimination-in-health-care The announcement, which effectively reverses a Trump-era rule, springs from last summer's landmark Supreme Court decision banning employment discrimination against LGBTQ people. Mon, 10 May 2021 17:29:48 GMT /news/2021-05-10/u-s-will-protect-gay-and-transgender-people-against-discrimination-in-health-care Becky Sullivan, Selena Simmons-Duffin /news/2020-06-15/florida-rep-on-supreme-court-decision-its-about-freedom The United States Supreme Court ruled Monday that employers may not discriminate against LGBTQ employees because of their sexual orientation.In Florida, a… Mon, 15 Jun 2020 20:16:09 GMT /news/2020-06-15/florida-rep-on-supreme-court-decision-its-about-freedom Nancy Klingener /culture/2018-06-13/from-brooklyn-to-boynton-beach-a-visit-with-lynn-lavner-pioneer-lgbtq-performer Thanks to my father’s late-life nostalgia, last summer my family reconnected with a woman we’d known back in Brooklyn decades ago who’d gone on to live a… Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:09:13 GMT /culture/2018-06-13/from-brooklyn-to-boynton-beach-a-visit-with-lynn-lavner-pioneer-lgbtq-performer Lisa Napoli /news/2017-12-19/palm-beach-county-first-in-state-to-ban-conversion-therapy Palm Beach County is the first county in Florida to ban conversion therapy for minors.County commissioners voted 5-2 Tuesday to ban the controversial form… Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:40:19 GMT /news/2017-12-19/palm-beach-county-first-in-state-to-ban-conversion-therapy /news/2017-10-03/miami-dade-commission-rejects-ban-on-gay-conversion-therapy Miami-Dade commissioners on Tuesday rejected a ban on gay-conversion therapy for minors, saying the proposed crackdown would thrust local government into… Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:44:23 GMT /news/2017-10-03/miami-dade-commission-rejects-ban-on-gay-conversion-therapy Douglas Hanks /2017-04-01/designer-of-rainbow-flag-enduring-symbol-for-gay-rights-has-died Gilbert Baker used his sewing skills to create the flag, an enduring symbol of the gay rights movement, and later, of growing solidarity with LGBT causes. He was 65. Sat, 01 Apr 2017 20:47:00 GMT /2017-04-01/designer-of-rainbow-flag-enduring-symbol-for-gay-rights-has-died Jason Slotkin /news/2016-06-22/rubios-re-run-may-be-harder-than-the-gop-thinks-especially-after-orlando COMMENTARY -So it seems the Orlando massacre helped prod Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, like a guy leaping back onto a subway train as its doors are closing,… Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:47:17 GMT /news/2016-06-22/rubios-re-run-may-be-harder-than-the-gop-thinks-especially-after-orlando Tim Padgett