Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico struck down a policy that prevented transgender people born in Puerto Rico from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates and ordered Commonwealth officials to allow such corrections.
An estimated 1.4 million (4.3%) of Latino/a adults consider themselves LGBT and 29% of Latino/a same-gender couples are raising children, according to a new report.
Amid noisy protests today from anti-gay religious groups and their supporters, Puerto Rico’s lawmakers continued conducting public hearings designed to tackle LGBT issues affecting the U.S. territory often called our “51st state.”
About 4,000 players perform in the NBA, NHL, NFL and Major League Baseball, but none have come out publicly. Los Angeles Times looks at attitudes in the locker room.
