Gay Rights

Face recognition and other forms of biometric identification technologies are a threat to core constitutional rights and have a disturbing record of racial bias and inaccuracy that endangers people of …

My driver’s license is just like yours. It has my photo, date of birth, and other standard descriptors. Under gender, however, you’ll find not M or F, but X. In 2017, …

Yesterday, as part of a slate of executive orders signed by President Biden on his first day in office, he issued an “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on …

by Rebecca Rolfe, SF LGBT Center Executive Director At this time when our community members are navigating additional health, safety, and economic concerns piled on by the COVID-19 pandemic, fundamental …

The federal government has not been kind to transgender people over the last four years. Trans students were put at risk when the Department of Education withdrew critical guidance explaining …

LGBTQ+ youth need you For LGBTQ+ youth like Jay, the Host Homes youth participant who you heard from recently, the impact of Host Homes reaches far beyond housing. Housing is …

It took a split second for my whole world to come crashing down.  My teammates on the University of Connecticut’s women’s soccer team were jumping and screaming and hugging each …

Over the last four years, the Trump administration has embraced a distorted view of religious freedom that is rooted in bigotry against minority faiths and atheists and promotes an official …

For queer youth like Jay, Host Homes changes everything When I was going through one of the hardest times in my life, dealing with unstable housing, depression, and unemployment, I …

Each year on Nov. 20, Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR) gives us an opportunity to remember and honor the trans and non-binary people who have been killed at the hands …