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On this edition of Your Call, we continue with KALW Pride week by finding out how LGBTQ+ communities are celebrating and fighting back against the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ policies. The administration has reduced funding and eliminated entire programs that provide […]

When Renata Ramos was 5, she stood in front of a mirror, squeezed her eyes shut, and prayed that when she opened them, she would see a girl looking back at her. “I’d go to the mirror, I’d look, and […]

David Perry recalls being young and gay in 1980s Washington D.C. and having “an absolute blast.” He was fresh out of college, raised in Richmond, Virginia, and had long viewed the nation’s capital as “the big city” where he could […]

U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Angie Craig (D-MN) have reintroduced the Elder Pride Protection Act, a bill aimed at addressing harassment and abuse against LGBTQ+ seniors. The legislation would establish a Department of Justice task force to investigate and […]

Legislation introduced Friday, during Pride Month, by more than a dozen House Democrats would help combat abuse against elderly LGBTQ Americans. The Elder Pride Protection Act would establish a task force within the Department of Justice to study the “increased incidence […]

With the arrival of June begins the start of Pride Month, an annual celebration that honors the LGBTQ+ community—and pays tribute to the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, a major turning point in the gay rights movement. It is also […]