LGBTQ+

In January, Utah banned gender-affirming care for minors.

A recent school board meeting in the Jordan School District got heated when the topic of transgender students using bathrooms was brought up.

The drag show fundraiser for Pride of Southern Utah brought fans and performers together after a year of controversy, bans and lawsuits in southwest Utah.

The state is far from perfect and the progress has been hard fought. But if you know where to look, you can find vibrant LGBTQ+ communities.

Tucked inside Carbon County lies Helper, Utah – a place with a vibrant LGBTQ+ community. KUER's State Street podcast stopped in to check it out.

“Every time something like this comes out, it empowers people who want to be hateful. I don’t think it makes new hateful people, but it empowers people who already are,” said queer BYU senior Rachel Billings.

The Salt Lake Tribune and the investigative newsroom ProPublica are partnering to report on sexual assault by health care professionals in Utah. The story of one therapist who worked with gay Latter-day Saint men shines light on what reporter Jessica Miller calls a “flawed and misleading system” for reporting abuse.

New laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are proliferating in GOP-led states, but the conversations often lack a clear understanding of how many people will be directly affected. Data collection on the number of LGBTQ+ people living in the U.S. has been relatively scant.

In a year that saw polarized policymaking around transgender Americans, MPR News and KUER teamed up to tell the story of how gender-affirming care bans and care shields are affecting access in Minnesota and Utah.

Colorado and Idaho represent two different poles of state-level political homogenization. Both are fast-growing Rocky Mountain states that have been transformed by the influx of new, like-minded residents.

The judge called the city officials' attempt to stop the show unconstitutional. A statement from the city says it is committed to ensuring public parks remain open to those who want to hold events.

Some players said Dungeons & Dragons lets them take a break from the real world. Since it’s fantasy, they get to leave parts of the real world that they don’t like at the door.