Lev Grosshandler and his mom Jen ran the Chicago Marathon in honor of his sister who identifies as trans.

More than 13,000 service members were kicked out under the policy between 1994 and 2011.

A lawsuit against the Broward County School Board and Florida Department of Education has been filed on behalf of Jessica Norton, the mother of a transgender athlete.

In the first nationally representative survey about transgender students, the CDC found that 3.3% of U.S. high school students identified as transgender in 2023.

John Cason combined his passion for engineering with the love for his daughter Sydney.

When 21-year-old drag artist Jenna Tea came out to her family as trans, no one was more supportive than her 89-year-old great-grandma

Drag queen Jenna Tea shares why she wanted to share her great-grandmother’s message to her after she came out as trans publicly.

Hate crimes motivated by gender-identity and sexual orientation rose from 2022 to 2023, according to FBI data.

Here's where the 2024 presidential candidates stand on LGBTQ+ issues

Former President Donald Trump claimed Vice President Kamala Harris wants to perform "transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison."

A trans teenager was allegedly assaulted by a group of other teens in Massachusetts, and police are investigating it as a possible hate crime.

A trans teenager was allegedly assaulted by a group of other teens in Massachusetts, and police are investigating it as a possible hate crime.

A group of Republican officials filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court condemning a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming medical care for trans youth.

Transgender South Carolinians and their families are behind a lawsuit to block the enforcement of restrictions on gender-affirming health care in their state.

Equality Florida’s Parenting with Pride aims to help parents address anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric in schools.

A New Hampshire judge ruled that transgender teen Parker Tirrell can play on the girls' soccer team amid a new law that would have barred her from doing so.

As students head back to school nationwide, classrooms may begin to feel the effects of laws concerning LGBTQ issues, race, and religion that have recently been passed.

"GMA" shares a first look at the new campaign to highlight the discrimination faced by LGBTQ+ people.

A trans woman is speaking out in an interview with ABC News after filing a lawsuit against Liberty University. She says she was fired for being transgender.

Ellenor Zinski speaks with ABC News about her job termination from Liberty University.

Youth who identify as LGBTQ+ reported higher rates of poor mental health and experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviors than their cisgender and heterosexual peers.

This year's U.S. Olympic team has a star-studded cast of LGBTQ athletes headed to Paris.

Calls for unity at the Republican National Convention are ringing hollow for the LGBTQ community.

After the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, unity was supposed to be the theme of the Republican National Convention.

California's ban on LGBTQ parental notification policies faces legal challenge. Elon Musk threatened to move his businesses out of state over the law.

Danielle Winston and Paige Kennedy-Winston decided to expand their family through a known donor and have documented their son's relationship with their donor ever since.

After close to 200 interviews, Danielle Winston and Paige Kennedy-Winston connected with Flavio Valabrega from Italy, their eventual donor.

The legal battle over a transgender sports ban in Nassau County in New York has begun.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed the policy into law on Monday after it passed in the Republican-led county legislature in a 12-6 vote in June.

A new report from Yale Law School and School of Medicine professors criticizes the often-cited Cass Review on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

Family and friends of Taylor Casey, a trans woman from Chicago who has been missing in the Bahamas since June 20, marked Casey's 42nd birthday as the search continues.

A Pennsylvania community is mourning transgender teen Pauly Likens, 14, whose dismembered body was found at the end of Pride month.

ABC News Live celebrates Pride Month with discussions on LGBTQ Rights and visiting a secure environment for the LGBTQ+ community in Eureka Springs, Arkansas during this year’s “Pride Across America”.

Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is a secure environment for the LGBTQ+ community, setting records as one of the first towns in the South to recognize gay marriage.

The land directly surrounding New York City's Jacob Riis Beach is drastically and quickly changing, stoking fears in the local LGBTQ+ community.

The two-week-long celebration beginning on May 23, 2025 and stretching until June 8 is set with an impressive lineup of events, including a human rights conference and the World Pride parade.

A recent Gallup poll found that one in ten millennials and one in five Gen-Z adults identify as LGBTQ+. "538 Politics" podcast host Galen Druke reports.

ABC News’ Will Ganss is along the path of New York City’s pride parade where this year’s theme for the march is “reflect, empower, unite.”

This weekend's Pride March and other Pride-related events throughout New York City could be targets for violence, the New York Police Department's Intel Bureau warned.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community say living in states with strong protections is positive for their mental health amid a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation sweeping the U.S.

Drag queen Marina Del Rey is speaking out after a video went viral of a woman yelling at her and other drag performers in a hotel lobby during Pride month in Hawaii.

Drag queen Marina Del Rey is speaking out after a video went viral of a woman yelling at her and other drag performers in a hotel lobby during Pride month in Hawaii.

Research has linked protective laws to positive mental health for LGBTQ people.

In a post-debate appearance, President Joe Biden arrived in New York to celebrate the opening ceremony of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in New York.

The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, which opened to the public Friday, is the first LGBTQ visitor center in the National Park Service.

Twenty years after the first legal U.S. same-sex marriages, some LGBTQ+ advocates are embracing groundbreaking research finding "consistently positive" social benefits.

Two decades after the first legal same-sex marriages were granted, a new report examines the social impact.

The new visitors center opened on the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. 

The People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park has long been a gathering place for the queer community. But some fear recent real estate developments could push out lower-income and queer beachgoers.

WNBA star Chelsea Gray and NASCAR driver Zach Herrin shared their journeys.