LGBTQ Rights

The LGBTQ+ Truck Driver Network is working to recruit and support drivers as the U.S. trucking industry battles a growing driver shortage.

A disagreement over the meaning of “or” in a controversial anti-trans law has ignited the latest conflict between a prominent Republican lawmaker and the Kentucky Department of Education.

The new practice, that’s a part of the Graves Gilbert Clinic, offers gender affirming care, HIV prevention including PrEP prescriptions, and LGBTQ mental health treatments. It also offers traditional primary care for LGBTQ patients who’ve experienced discrimination from other healthcare providers.

Despite impassioned pleas from a grieving fellow lawmaker, the Kentucky Senate passed a bill that would codify the right of school staff to misgender trans and nonbinary students.

The annual Fairness Rally has been an opportunity for LGBTQ rights advocates to push for causes like fairness ordinances—local initiatives that protect rights to employment, housing and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Students at Atherton High School in Louisville walked out of class Tuesday in protest of a flurry of anti-LGBTQ bills filed by Republicans in the Kentucky Legislature.

The statehouse is on track to limit LGBTQ rights in Tennessee for the third year in a row.

The Floyd County Library has drawn criticism and support after staff recently read a book featuring a same-sex couple to 4- to 6-year-olds during a children’s story time.

An annual celebration of Bowling Green’s LGBTQ community will return to Circus Square Park on Oct. 22.