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A cyclist crosses a rainbow-painted intersection, Aug. 27, 2025, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, file)

St. Petersburg delays vote on flags for LGBTQ+ and Black communities after DeSantis erases murals

The Florida city of St. Petersburg, long a bastion of LGBTQ+ rights and mindful of its racially segregated past, is considering approval of two flags recognizing those issues after Republican Gov.
 
North Dakota State District Judge Jackson Lofgren listens during a court hearing on March 31, 2025, at the Burleigh County Courthouse in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

Judge upholds North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for kids

 
This combo image shows Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears, left, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, right. (AP Photo)

Candidates in Virginia governor’s debate clash over shutdown and violent rhetoric

 
A shirt makes a political statement in a storefront in Gillette, Wyo., Sept. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)

Wyoming library director fired amid book dispute wins $700,000 settlement

 
Members of the Long Island Roller Rebels practice, Mar. 19, 2023, at United Skates of America, in Seaford, NY. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Judge halts New York county from enforcing transgender athlete ban after roller derby league sues

 

People celebrate “Coming Out Day” as Trump administration moves against trans community

Drums clashed with hymns as a North Carolina town celebrated the LGBTQ+ community. Wake Forest Pride Fest coincided with National Coming Out Day, despite political clouds. (AP Video/Allen G. Breed)
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Kevin ‘KevOnStage’ Fredricks transitions from internet comedian to Hollywood creator

Lebanese dancer Alexandre Paulikevitch defies threats with sold-out Beirut show

Years of activism resulted in a Hong Kong same-sex partnership bill, but a tough vote remains

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A Freedom to Read sign is placed inside the ʻEwa Beach Public and School Library in ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat via AP)

Hawaii library system bans displays that refer to ‘Banned Books Week,’ rebrands to ‘Freedom to Read’

 
The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Supreme Court seems skeptical about state bans on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids

 
Pedestrians walk over a crosswalk on Miami Beach's iconic Ocean Drive that used to be rainbow-colored celebrating the history and contributions of the LGBTQ+ community, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Florida removes Miami Beach rainbow crosswalk after city loses appeal

 
Members of the Long Island Roller Rebels practice, Mar. 19, 2023, at United Skates of America, in Seaford, NY. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

New York judge upholds transgender athlete ban on Long Island

 
Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

New Supreme Court term confronts justices with Trump’s aggressive assertion of presidential power

 
Sarah Mullally, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world's 85 million Anglicans, poses for the media inside Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, England, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Sarah Mullally named the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in history of Church of England

 
PEN America literary service award recipient Stephen King attends the 2018 PEN Literary Gala on May 22, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says

 
Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speaks during a news conference at the Conference Center, Jan. 27, 2015, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, file)

Former judge is likely the next leader of the Mormon church and its 17 million members

 
Nelson Viveros, transformed into his drag persona, Dislexia, poses for a photo at the entrance of La Serafina bar in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

For Paraguay’s transgender women, survival often means leaving home

 
A view of the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan, N.Y., where the Second Circuit Court of Appeals is seated, on Oct. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Federal appeals court reinstates Vermont Christian school after it objected to transgender player

 
Pope Leo XIV arrives in St. Peter's Square on the occasion of the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo talks Trump, sex abuse scandals, LGBTQ+ welcome and China in his first interview

 
Tyler Blum paints a parking space at a local restaurant to support the LBGTQ+ community and to protest state mandates on crosswalk art Monday, Sept. 15, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Parking spots used as colorful protest against Florida crackdown on rainbow crosswalks

 
Alexandre Paulikevitch performs at a theatre in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A Lebanese dancer defies extremist threats and social norms with his sold-out performances

 
A general view of the stadium on day one of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Gender testing returns to track, stirring up harsh memories and doubts that date to the 1980s

 
Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at a press conference at Utah Valley University after Charlie Kirk, CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed during a visit at the university in Orem, Utah, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)

Utah’s Gov. Spencer Cox makes a familiar plea for unity following Charlie Kirk’s death

 
Anna Lange speaks to reporters on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025 in Atlanta after a federal appeals court hearing in which Houston County, Georgia, sought to overturn an order to pay for Lange's gender affirming care. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, file)

Court rules Georgia county didn’t discriminate by denying coverage of gender-affirming surgery

 
Lawmaker Maggie Chan gives a speech on a government bill that proposed to grant recognition to same-sex partnerships in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. A sign reads "Resolutely oppose Registration of Same-Sex Partnerships Bill." (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Hong Kong lawmakers reject a bill recognizing same-sex partnerships

 
People who could not get into the Hamtramck city council chambers try to listen via YouTube or on the monitor in the hallway, during public comment on the flag neutrality law being considered by the city council in a meeting at City Hall in Hamtramck, Mich., June 13, 2023. (Robin Buckson/The Detroit News via AP, File)

Detroit-area city can ban LGBTQ+ pride flags on public property, judge says

 
People walk out of the Hong Kong High Court in Admiralty, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP photo/Kanis Leung)

Hong Kong judge rules in favor of lesbian couple’s parental recognition in landmark case

 
Same-sex partners Jaedyn Yu, right and Gloria Tsang cross the road in Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Years of activism resulted in a Hong Kong same-sex partnership bill, but a tough vote remains

 

Turkish court releases a youth activist critical of Erdogan pending trial

 

Lesbian couple pass through Vatican’s holy door with daughter in LGBTQ+ jubilee pilgrimage

 

Pride marchers in Belgrade condemn police violence against anti-government protesters

 

Thousands of LGBTQ+ Catholics attend jubilee at the Vatican

 

Transgender people join LGBTQ+ pilgrimage to Vatican

 
Participants hold up a rainbow flag during the Gay Pride march in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Pride march in Serbia condemns police violence at anti-government rallies, seeks LGBTQ+ rights

 
Some of the hundreds of LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families who joined a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church and crediting Pope Francis for the change, walk through the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

LGBTQ+ Catholics make Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome and celebrate a new feeling of welcome

 

Hundreds of faithful join LGBTQ+ vigil in Rome ahead of historic jubilee at Vatican

 
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., speaks during the confirmation hearing for Kash Patel, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

National conservatism asserts its dominance in Trump’s Washington

 

Moroccan feminist and LGBTQ activist sentenced to prison in blasphemy case

 
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