Videos

The New School history Professor Claire Potter talked about the 1969 Stonewall Riots and rise of the gay rights movement. She described the uprising and reflected on the legacy of the…

Daily Beast senior reporter Samantha Allen talked about her book, Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States.

Telephone lines and social media were open for comments on a new Pentagon policy regarding transgender troops, which went into effect yesterday. After April 12, 2019, no one with gender…

Equality For All: Progress for LGBT Rights was one of the middle school second-prize winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Rachel Tokarski, Tovya Michael, and Seneka Millawabandara,…

The House debated a resolution expressing opposition to the Trump administration seeking to bar some transgender people from serving in the Armed Forces. The non-binding measure sponsored…

Transgender military service members defended their service and stressed to lawmakers that the transition period to another sex does not impact readiness and deployments. Their testimony…

Human Rights Campaign press secretary Sarah McBride discusses her life as a transgender person and LGBTQ rights. She is interviewed by Vanita Gupta, former head of the U.S. Department of…

In her book, No Place Like Home, author C.J. Janovy explained the history of the LGBTQ movement in Kansas and the challenges the movement is still facing. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a…

Legal experts examined former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinions on abortion and gay rights at a conference on his impact and legacy. Justice Kennedy retired from the court in…

CASSIUS editor-at-large Darnell Moore spoke with panelists about his memoir, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America, in which he detailed his life and journey to…

At the Human Rights Campaign annual dinner, former Attorney General Eric Holder talked about advancing LGBTQ rights under the Obama administration as well as his own redistricting project.…

Former Vice President Joe Biden addressed the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner in Washington, D.C. The former vice president spoke about the fight for LGBTQ rights and the need to treat everyone with dignity.…

Professor Ann Travers reported on the findings of her study that followed the lives of transgender children for five years.

African-American LGBT leaders participated in a town hall gathering called “The State of LGBT People of Color in America” as part of the NAACP’s' Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas.…

Robert Fieseler recounted the deaths of 32 people due to an arson at the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, on June 24, 1973.

Policy advocates talked about Trump administration’s policies in areas affecting transgender military service, people with disabilities and the criminal justice system. Sixth Circuit Court…

In Out: A Courageous Woman’s Journey, Lou Anne Smoot shared the struggle of hiding her homosexuality in Texas for 60 years and how she built the courage to come out. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles…

Lillian Faderman recalled the life of the late San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in America. He was assassinated in 1977, after serving one year…

David Savage spoke by phone about the Supreme Court’s decision in favor of a Christian baker from Colorado who refused for religious reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

Telephone lines and social media were open for viewer comments on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The Los Angeles Times' David Savage spoke by…