LGBTQ

As lawmakers restrict the rights of LGBTQ Iowans, more and more are leaving in favor of states with friendlier laws, with over half saying they’ve at least considered it.

A new Iowa law removing the civil rights of transgender Iowans goes into effect today. Hear from some of the Iowans targeted by the bill. Iowa made history today as the first state to actively remove a previously protected class from its civil rights law, targeting transgender residents through a combination of legislative actions that…

Iowa House Republicans advanced a bill to remove gender identity from the list of protected classes under the Iowa Civil Rights Act. This has wide-ranging impacts on protections from discrimination in housing, education and more. The bill became the subject of the largest Iowa Capitol protest all session. Since passing in 2007, transgender Iowans have…

House Republicans want to remove Iowa’s discrimination protections for transgender Iowans. The bill is a long list touching on bathrooms, birth certificates and introduces a new phrase “gender theory” into Iowa law. Just like all other Iowans, transgender residents of the state are protected under the Iowa Civil Rights Act, meaning they cannot be discriminated…

Republicans are pushing to open obscenity laws in hopes of making it easier to sue drag performers.

Iowa Republicans’ decision to restrict DEI programs means the loss of one university’s LGBTQ+ center, where students have found friendship and safety to be themselves for decades. When Madison O. visited the suite of offices that make up the Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success at Iowa State University’s Memorial Union, she felt free. “I always…

Linn-Mar’s LGBTQ+ student group was attacked at the school’s homecoming parade. Here’s why the Iowa Legislature is on the hook.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has now joined a group of Republican states to defend laws discriminating against transgender athletes in Idaho and West Virginia.

Iowa students, including transgender and nonbinary children, will not enjoy new federal Title IX protections at school because Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, a Republican, sued over them in federal court. On Aug. 1, the Title IX expanded rules went into effect for 24 states across the country, but not Iowa and the other 25…

We asked our colleagues across Courier Newsroom to share recommendations for books by LGBTQ+ authors. Here’s what they said.