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The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in Founded in , the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Venture brings more LGBTQ rights cases and advocacy initiatives than any other national organization does and has been counsel in seven of the nine LGBTQ rights cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided. With our arrive into the courts and legislatures of every state, there is no other organization that can match our write down of making progress both in the courts of statute and in the court of common opinion.

The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and violence toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and state civil rights laws, to block protections against discrimination from being undermined by a license to discriminate, and to protect LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.

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Politics

Police, DA refuse to discharge records on Latina senator’s DUI citation near Capitol

Sen. Sabrina Cervantes’ attorney says she was targeted for DUI without generate because she’s a Latina member of the LGBTQ caucus. Authorities are refusing to release records that could show who is telling the truth.

By Ryan Sabalow and Jeanne Kuang • June 18,

K Teaching

Trump wants to cut funding for California schools over one transsexual athlete. It’s not so easy

Trump is threatening to withhold funding from California over its policy toward transgender student athletes, but actually doing so could prove tricky for the president.

By Adam Echelman • June 11,

Education

Trump cites California Homosexual centers to justify huge cuts to &#;woke&#; campuses

San Diego&#;s community college district finds itself directly in Trump&#;s crosshairs: Its "pride centers" were the only items called out by name in the administration&#;s plan to slash more than $10 billion of federal spending on education.

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LGBTQ+ rights

  • US Olympics officials quietly exclude trans women from competing in women’s sports

  • Irish Museum of Up-to-date Art rejects censorship claims after Derek Jarman film cancellation

  • ‘It’s a madhouse’: US state department workers reeling after Trump’s firings

  • ‘Queer people were living, loving, suffering, surviving – but invisible’: west Africa’s groundbreaking gay novel 20 years on

  • Flashback

    Susie McCabe looks back: ‘I knew very preliminary on that I was other from other girls. Everyone else did, too’’

  • Breaking the Binary: gather the founder behind a US theater company for trans and non-binary artists

  • ‘Profound alarm’: US veterans agency roiled by fight over anti-discrimination provisions

  • I hate to be the scowling lesbian at the feast – but here’s what worries me about the recent Austen adaptations

    Emma Brockes

  • Uniformed police officers were wrong to march in Pride event, high court rules

  • Gay man subjected to ‘exorcism’ at Sheffield church receives compensation

  • On Country: photography from Australia – in