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In this Jan. 7, 2019, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challenges continue. The high court on Tuesday reversed lower-court orders preventing the Pentagon from implementing its plans. The high court for now declined to take up cases about the plan. The cases will continue to move through lower courts. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court allows Trump administration transgender military policy to go into effect

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Yaisah Val a transgender woman get her makeup done at her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 12, 2018. Val recently came out publicly as a transgender woman on YouTube, a potentially risky move in a country like Haiti where LGBT residents face pervasive hostility in most spheres of public life. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

In Haiti, slight progress for LGBT rights is seen as victory

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

In this Feb. 20, 2017, file photo, actor Josh Gad, left, who plays manservant LeFou and Luke Evans who plays villain Gaston, pose during a promotional event for the movie "Beauty and the Beast" in Paris. Walt Disney has shelved the release of its new movie "Beauty and the Beast" in mainly Muslim Malaysia, even though film censors said Tuesday, March 14, 2017, it had been approved with a minor cut involving a "gay moment" between two characters in the film. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

GLAAD Report hits Hollywood decline in LGBT representation on big screen

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Connecticut recruiting LGBT families to adopt, foster kids

By SUSAN HAIGH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, April 25, 2016 file photo, protesters head into the Legislative building in Raleigh, N.C., for a sit-in against House Bill 2 regarding a Republican-backed law curtailing protections for LGBT people and limiting public bathroom access for transgender people. In the thick of 2018's legislative sessions, LGBT activists were tracking about 120 proposed bills that they viewed as threats to their civil rights. Not one of them has been enacted as many sessions now wind down; only two remain under serious consideration. (Chuck Liddy/The News &amp; Observer via AP)

Bills to curtail LGBT rights are failing in US legislatures

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Director Don Argott, left, and Dan Reynolds pose for a portrait to promote the film, &quot;Believer&quot;, at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, in Park City, Utah. The Mormon frontman of the Imagine Dragons rock band hopes the Sundance Film Festival documentary that follows his journey to becoming an advocate for LGBT Mormon youth triggers real change by his religion’s leaders and puts an end to what he calls shaming of gay and lesbian kids in the religion. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)

Imagine Dragons front man advocates for LGBT Mormons in film

By BRADY McCOMBS and RYAN PEARSON - Associated Press

In this Jan. 14, 2018 photo, President Donald Trump, right, accompanied by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks to members of the media as they arrive for a dinner at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. Reinforcing its standing with social conservatives, the Trump administration creates a federal office to protect medical providers who refuse to participate in abortion, assisted suicide or other procedures because of their moral or religious beliefs. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

New Trump office would protect conscience rights of doctors

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

This combination of photos shows Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, actor Kevin Spacey, and orchestral conductor James Levine. Among the dozens of prominent Americans entangled in sexual-misconduct cases in 2017 are a modest number of men whose accusers are male. For some LGBT civic leaders, dismay over these cases is mixed with relief and even a trace of pride at how they were addressed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, Chris Pizzello, Michael Dwyer)

LGBT leaders say sex allegation coverage ‘an advance’

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Survey asks child advocates about treatment of gay couples

Associated Press

In this Nov. 16, 2017, photo, former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a news conference in Birmingham, Ala., with his wife Kayla Moore, right. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Anti-gay supporters rally for Moore, worrying LGBT community

By STEVE PEOPLES - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 31, 2014, file photo, gay rights campaigners act out electric shock treatment to protest outside a court where the first court case in China involving so-called conversion therapy is held in Beijing, China. Human Rights Watch says Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, in a new report that the Chinese government should stop hospitals and other medical facilities from subjecting LGBT people in China to conversion therapy that in some cases has involved electroshocks, involuntary confinement and forced medication. The banners from left read &quot;Gays, no need to be treated,&quot; &quot;Support Haidian Court, Against twisted treatment,&quot; and &quot;Ms. Baidu promotes gay treatment by Li Yanhong (Chairman of Baidu).&quot; (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Rights group urges China to ban abusive gay ‘conversion’

By YI-LING LIU - Associated Press

In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2017 photo, Duval Schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti, center, is hugged after the Jacksonville City Council voted 12-6 to support the Human Rights Ordinance (HRO) in Jacksonville, Fla. At left are Rabbi Rick Shapiro, the Interim Senior Rabbi at Congregation Ahavath Chesed, and Nancy Broner, Executive Director of OneJax. At the U.S. Capitol, and in most statehouses nationwide, supporters of LGBT rights are unable to make major gains these days. Instead, they're notching victories in scores of cities and towns that have acted on their own in Republican-governed states. (Bob Mack/Florida Times-Union via AP)

Stalled in Congress, LGBT rights advance at the local level

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Republican lawmakers who oppose LGBT deal want lawsuit over

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

California board approves 10 textbook families, rejects 2

Associated Press

In this Aug. 8, 2017 photo, RuPaul, host of &quot;RuPaul's Drag Race,&quot; poses for a portrait at Allied Studios in Simi Valley, Calif. Winner of the 2016 Emmy for best reality TV show host, RuPaul is up for the award again this year. (AP Photo/Joseph Longo)

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ keeps focus on art, not its impact

By JOSEPH LONGO - Associated Press

Peace Washington joins protesters gathered on the steps of the Texas Capitol while state lawmakers began a special legislative session called by Gov. Greg Abbott last month. LGBT activists bitterly oppose bathroom bill proposals. (Associated Press/File)

LGBT groups fund messages of economic doom

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

ADVANCED FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017 Rev. Elizabeth Goudy delivers a sermon from the pulpit at the Metropolitan Community Church of the Lehigh Valley in Bethlehem, Pa., on June 25, 2017. (Erin Gallagher/The Express-Times via AP)

Valley’s LGBT churches offer safe place, ‘redemption’

By ALYSSA MURSCH and The (Easton) Express-Times - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 31, 2014 file photo, gay rights campaigners act out electric shock treatment to protest outside a court when the first court case in China involving so-called conversion therapy is held in Beijing, China. A gay man in central China has successfully sued a mental hospital over forced conversion therapy on June 26, 2017, in what activists are hailing as the first such victory in the country where the LGBT rights movement is gradually emerging form the fringes. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Man wins lawsuit in China over forced gay conversion therapy

By GERRY SHIH - Associated Press

FILE- In this June 26, 2016 file photo, marchers filled the street during New York City's pride parade. The annual pride parade takes place on Sunday, June 25, 2017, amid protests by black and brown LGBT people saying increasingly corporate pride celebrations prioritize the experiences of gay white men and ignore the issues continuing to face black and brown LGBT people. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Pride and prejudice? Race tinges LGBT celebrations

By DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press