Articles Tagged: LGBTQ

The third annual CR Pride parade took to the street of NewBo and Czech Village in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.

The Queer Elders of Iowa City are a group of LGBTQ seniors who meet twice a month to socialize, share their stories, develop programming for the Iowa City Senior Center and advocate for the LGBTQ community.

With wigs as big as Texas, an old Hollywood sense of glamour and vocal talent that makes lip syncing redundant, the Cedar Rapids female impersonator has her eyes set on the Miss Gay USofA crown -- one drag pageant circuit eschewed by many in the younger generations.

With the stroke of a pen, a person’s sex ceases to be the fixed and immutable physiological classification we know it to be.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday signed into law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The signing took place during a closed-door event hosted by the Christian conservative group The Family Leader.

Editor’s note: A reference to a protester charged Dec. 11 has been changed from the original publication. (Note published 3/18, …

AEAs, gender ID, school safety and many other significant bills need more legislative attention this week to survive a legislative deadline.

From Gazette columnist Althea Cole: Leading trans health authority trades science for politics while ignoring severity of potential complications from treatment.

A bill Republicans say will strengthen protections for religious expressions in Iowa that Democrats contend would give legal cover to discriminate against LGTBQ Iowans and others is headed to Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk.

Defendants lose their marbles, but not their (entire) court case

Also, bill advances to limit ‘obscene performances’

A three-member House panel voted 2-1 Tuesday to advance a bill that would define “man” and “woman” in state law. The bill was amended Tuesday to eliminate a requirement that transgender Iowans note both their pre- and post-transition genders on their driver’s license. However, both genders would still be noted on birth certificates.

On an organized day of LGBTQ advocacy at the Iowa Capitol, Iowa House Republicans advanced a bill that would prohibit teachers from being punished for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds filed a bill Thursday that would define “man” and “woman” in Iowa Code. It came one day after transgender Iowans and LGBTQ and civil rights advocates and allies flocked to the Capitol to protest a bill that would have changed the way transgender Iowans are protected under the Civil Rights Act.

All three members of a House Judiciary subcommittee said they will not sign off on moving the bill forward, following roughly an hour of testimony from transgender Iowans, school safety advocates, attorneys and civil rights activists.