In a New York Times essay, Andrew Sullivan examined how the gay rights movement transformed from civil rights victories to ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — (AP) — Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity from its civil rights code under a law that ...

History suggests that periods of toleration of gay men and lesbians can swiftly end if the public senses an overreach.

It was also the product of a longstanding civil rights movement. For decades, the gay rights movement had worked to influence public and elite opinion in favor of equality.

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

As we browsed among the crowd, I couldn’t help but think how different this was from current narratives about gay rights. Headlines paint a movement on the retreat ... on the march toward full ...

LGBTQ+ historians spoke with Newsweek about the history of activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march was the brainchild of longtime civil rights activist and labor ...

The Conversation focuses on how the overall expansion of voting rights and a historical understanding of “We the People” ...