LGBT Rights

In the past few years, Utah has passed several pro-LGBTQ policies. This year, the Legislature considered two anti-trans bills that are both likely headed for defeat.

Ivy Fox was still in eighth grade when, in 1996, the Salt Lake City Board of Education banned all extra-curricular clubs, 46 in total, rather than approve…

LGBT rights groups are suing the Utah School Board over the state’s so-called “No Promo Homo” law. It restricts teachers and students from talking about…

After 16 years in the state legislature, Steve Urquhart decided not to run for reelection this year. He recently took a job as a global ambassador with…

Parents gathered at the state capitol to voice their concern over the Obama Administration’s directive on school bathrooms.The directive released late…

Legislative leadership has decided to study the impacts of the federal government’s letter recommending guidelines for how to treat transgender…

The interim state superintendent of schools says she would like individual districts to decide how to react to the recent U.S. Department of Education…

Hundreds of people filled the streets of Salt Lake City’s 9th and 9th neighborhood over the weekend to celebrate the naming of Harvey Milk…

Two activist groups want Carbon County Juvenile Court Judge Scott Johansen to be punished for his decision to remove a baby from the custody of a same-sex…

A Carbon County Judge has ordered the Utah Department of Child and Family Services to remove a one-year-old baby girl from the home of her lesbian foster…

Restore Our Humanity, the LGBT human rights group based in Utah has agreed to sponsor a new openly LGBT friendly Boy Scout troop in Salt Lake City.…

The Utah Attorney General’s office will not appeal a federal judge’s ruling that a married lesbian couple has the right to put both of their names on…