LGBTQ+

On one of the first warm and sunny Saturday afternoons of the year at a shooting range in Boaz – a rural community in far western Kentucky – a group of women and LGBTQ+ community members joined together to learn the basics of gun safety.

Despite the current rise in anti-LGBTQ legislation across the nation and in Kentucky, some LGBTQ+ people and their allies are still putting together events celebrating queer culture and demonstrating the importance of solidarity and community.

A bill moving through the Tennessee state legislature would require schools to segregate some facilities based on biological sex.

A chance encounter in a Colorado coffee shop drive-thru line and a quick conversation at a grocery store.

Advocacy groups across the political spectrum in Kentucky are encouraging people to get out and vote in the upcoming election – including LGBTQ+ voters.

Tennesseans sought to remove hundreds of books from library shelves in 2023, many of them containing LGTBQ+ characters or themes. But some activists and librarians are fighting to keep them in circulation.

Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars.

Willie Carver Jr. was named Kentucky Teacher of the Year in 2022, but a lot has happened since then. The openly gay educator quit his job teaching English and French in Montgomery County last summer, citing LGBTQ discrimination. And, just last month, he published his first book of poetry. Now Carver is speaking out and advocating on behalf of the state’s educators and queer youth.

The LGBTQ+ Truck Driver Network is working to recruit and support drivers as the U.S. trucking industry battles a growing driver shortage.

A western Kentucky nonprofit is hosting the second edition of its annual Paducah PrideFest celebration this weekend.