In June, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation expanding on an existing law designed to prevent children from gaining exposure to sexually explicit material. The expanded legislation ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new Texas law which opponents feared could ban some drag performances remains tied up in court. A federal judge out of Houston ruled the state cannot enforce the law that would ...

In 2023, a fifth of the country’s state-level bills impacting the LGBTQ+ community were filed in Texas, according to a Human Rights Campaign analysis. Equality Texas tracked a record 141 such ...

A group of people, organizations and businesses opposed to a law that restricts drag performances and bans drag reading ...

For those who have been following it, the saga of the banned drag show fundraiser at West Texas A&M took a new twist on Wednesday when Andrew Seidel—a constitutional lawyer, RD senior correspondent, ...

Drag queen Y'vonna F Mei performs a cover of the song "Happier Than Ever" as part of the "Grackle Games" drag competition in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 13, 2023. "I wasn’t sure what to expect," one judge ...

They also came to celebrate. On September 26, 10 days before the “Star Wars” theme music ushered in the first day ...

Capping off a several-year run of rampant anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-free speech legislation, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 12 into law in June 2023, making “sexually explicit ...

Administrators at a Texas school barred a transgender boy from playing the male lead in a production of Oklahoma! because of his gender identity, with the boy’s father saying the school cited a ...

Florida will not be able to enforce its ban on drag shows while legal challenges play out in court, after the U.S. Supreme ...

Florida appealed to the Supreme Court to tempotarily block that court’s ruling while the state waits for an appeals court ...