LGBT Rights and Issues

A safe space for queer folk doesn't always include friendly body checks. Here, it's expected.

In a statement issued Monday afternoon, Sen. Tom Woods said ‘I stand behind what I believe in.’

The death of Nex Benedict has drawn hundreds in the Tulsa area to publicly demonstrate in remembrance and protest.

A community in the Tulsa area is waiting to learn more details in the death of a 16-year-old Owasso High School student who died Feb. 8.

Oklahomans for Equality was in financial trouble after it said a former volunteer allegedly embezzled funds. Now, the organization is confident about weathering the storm.

The newly-opened exhibit will be on view through October 8th of this year.

"The pandemic brought America's health inequities into stark relief, but [this book] illustrates that the problem isn't new, and that it is embedded more deeply than many of us realize.... Thrasher, a gay Black man, brings figures from the viral underclass to life in this engaging, enraging read." -- The Boston Globe

Sáenz will appear at a free-to-the-public reading/signing on Saturday the 1st, at the TCCL's Central Library in downtown Tulsa; at this event, he'll receive the first-ever Hummingbird Award in Literary Arts.

Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three transgender Oklahoma schoolchildren against the state's new anti-transgender school bathroom bill.

"Recommended to fans of Paula McLean's 'The Paris Wife' and anyone who enjoyed Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast.'" -- Booklist