For many local parents, a new drag queen story time event was a time for parents to teach important lessons to their children. With an overwhelmingly positive response from many parents, tickets for last Wednesday’s event’s small venue sold quickly, prompting English to open a second story time an hour later. Before the events started, about 150 tickets were sold.
With over 100 different vendors, around 10 hours of performance programming and a two-part parade, the Iowa City Pride Board is prepping for a large crowd to surpass last year’s approximate 15,000 attendees.
The governor, speaking to a gathering of 500 influential business leaders from across Iowa and the Midwest in downtown Cedar Rapids, pointed to a low cost of doing business in Iowa, a falling unemployment rate down to 2.7 percent and a record number of new business entities registered in the state last year.
LGBTQ youth and allies filled the NewBo City Market area for the ceremony, where students strutted and danced down the stage to Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.”
More than 50 educators, students, parents, community members and Democratic lawmakers gathered at College Green Park in Iowa City Saturday to for "Youth & Truth Day of Action.“
The federal judge ruled that Florida had no "legitimate state interest“ for denying treatment for transgender patients.
During a special session hosted by conference leaders. 83 churches in Iowa agreed to leave to join more traditionalist denominations or have total independence.
Changes ‘put parents in driver’s seat,’ she says; opponents say LGBTQ kids targeted
Transportation secretary stopped at the Eastern Iowa Airport on Thursday to highlight federal investments he said will make for a better passenger experience and support job growth.
Flanked by home school advocates and Moms for Liberty representatives, the former vice president called Linn-Mar’s transgender support policy ‘crazy’
Do No Harm, a nonprofit that launched last year to oppose diversity initiatives in medicine, has evolved into a significant leader in statehouses seeking to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youths.
Many of this year's statehouse proposals to restrict gender-affirming care for youths are identical or very similar to some model legislation, or ready-made bills suggested to lawmakers by interest groups, an Associated Press analysis has found.
At least 17 states, including Iowa, have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors. An Associated Press analysis found that often those bills sprang not from grassroots or constituent demand, but from the pens of a handful of conservative interest groups.
Iowa lawmakers reshaped education and state government, restricted transgender youth and property taxes — and more
Matt Walsh drew a picture. Anti-Walsh protesters painted it.
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