LGBTQ

"I'm switching letters!" she told Beard, joking that she was moving from the L to the Q in LGBTQ.

For much of his professional career, Gurr was a closeted gay man, coming of age during the 1950s era of Joseph McCarthy and the Lavender Scare, the anti-communist purge of LGBTQ+ people from the U.S. government.

Leaders of nonprofits that serve the poor, immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community have been engaged in intense conversations for weeks about how to respond to Trump and his policies, which explicitly aim to curtail services to some of those populations.

The dispute in Mahmoud began in 2022, when Montgomery County Public Schools, one of the largest and most diverse districts in Maryland, introduced a series of LGBTQ+-inclusive storybooks into its English language arts curriculum for pre–K through fifth grade.

Religious objections to LGBTQ+ inclusion are now treated not as differences of belief, but as intolerable resistance.