LGBTQ+ Equity

At a time of rising anti-LGBTQ+ laws and rhetoric across the country, the 2024 Kentuckiana Pride festival expects to see a record turnout this Saturday.

Louisville's Bungalow Betty released a new single "Kitschy Witchy Boss Bitch"

Interview with Folk singer Crys Matthews

Young LGBTQ+ people are working to make parts of central Appalachia more hospitable to members of the queer community, according to a scholar of transgender media and rural places.

The Louisville Pride Foundation, one of the city’s major LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, runs the city’s Pride festival and a community center. After five years at the helm, Executive Director Mike Slaton is leaving for a job with the Louisville Orchestra.

This summer, transgender minors in Kentucky lost access to gender-affirming hormone therapy. But the ACLU of Kentucky wants the U.S. Supreme Court to change that.

Young LGBTQ+ people in Louisville are facing homelessness or housing instability at high rates. Advocates recommend some local resources specific to this community.

Senate Bill 150 might be best-known for prohibiting gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender kids. But the new law also changed the rules for sex ed in the state’s public schools.

The clinic helps clients, especially those who are transgender, navigate the process of legally changing their names, from filing paperwork to assisting with court hearings.

A U.S. Appeals court heard arguments Friday as advocates for transgender youth attempt to reinstall injunctions against Kentucky’s ban on gender-affirming hormone therapy. The judges said they would try to come to a decision “as quickly as possible.”