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Editor’s note: For the vast majority of the past 10 years the Texas attorney general has waged a relentless campaign to limit the rights and equality of LGBTQ Texans, especially transgender Texans. Today’s vote is significant in terms of the possibility that a Senate conviction would offer a potential respite from Paxton’s attacks on the LGBTQ community. By Zach Despart and James Barragan

Late in May, Target became the, erm, target of backlash when viral social media posts showcased and criticized some of its Pride merchandise, including “tuck-friendly" swimsuit bottoms for male-to-female transgender individuals. Target removed some items, and shortly afterward, stores in five states were evacuated after local media outlets received bomb threats, some of which (though not all)

A Montana man previously convicted for decapitating a family’s dog with a chainsaw was sentenced to a total of 18 years in prison on Wednesday for shooting bullets into a lesbian neighbor’s home in a self-professed attempt to “clean” the town of LGBTQ+ residents. John Russell Howald, of Basin, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris to 10 years in prison for the discharge of

LOS ANGELES — With “stop anti-Catholic hate” and "God will not be mocked” signs, protesters surrounded the main entrance to Dodger Stadium on Friday hours before The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were to receive an award on LGBTQ Pride Night. The appearance of the group, whose members dress in drag as nuns, came after conflicting messages from the Dodgers and amid accusations from Catholics