Brooke Sopelsa

3 weeks ago | gaysonoma.com | Brooke Sopelsa

Features/ Top Stories/ Transgender / Transsexual Marriage for same-sex couples has been legal across the United States since the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision a decade ago. While Democratic support for gay nuptials has risen steadily since that landmark 2015 ruling, Republican support has tumbled 14 points since its record high of 55% in 2021 and 2022, according to a Gallup report released Thursday. In the latest Gallup Poll, 41% of Republicans and 88% of Democrats said...

3 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | Ellie Rudy |Brooke Sopelsa

When “The L Word” debuted on Showtime in January 2004, gays and lesbians couldn’t serve openly in the military, employees could be fired for being gay in most of the country and no state had yet begun issuing same-sex marriage licenses. To say a series about glamorous and successful Los Angeles lesbians was groundbreaking at the time would be, inarguably, an understatement.

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Brooke Sopelsa

When "The L Word" debuted on Showtime in January 2004, gays and lesbians couldn't serve openly in the military, employees could be fired for being gay in most of the country and no state had yet begun issuing same-sex marriage licenses. To say a series about glamorous and successful Los Angeles lesbians was groundbreaking at the time would be, inarguably, an understatement.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Brooke Sopelsa

There were 932 anti-LGBTQ incidents across the United States over the past year — from hate speech and bomb threats to fatal violence — with more than half of these acts targeting transgender and gender-nonconforming people, according to a new report from the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD. The report found a year-over-year increase in incidents targeting transgender and gender-nonconforming people, state and local governments, and educators and librarians.

4 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Brooke Sopelsa

May 29, 2025, 12:44 PM EDTMarriage for same-sex couples has been legal across the United States since the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision a decade ago. While Democratic support for gay nuptials has risen steadily since that landmark 2015 ruling, Republican support has tumbled 14 points since its record high of 55% in 2021 and 2022, according to a Gallup report released Thursday.