President Joe Biden made history by choosing the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

While there was cause for alarm for LGBT people watching the opening day of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020-21 session Monday, there was also at least a tiny bit of reassurance, too. 

The Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s crowning piece of legislation, was sent to a lower court for a review of the law’s contraception mandate.

Coral Ridge Ministries’ celebration of the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade was dampened days later when the same court ruled against their petition on June 27 to sue the Southern Poverty Law Center.

(WB) With a new 6-3 majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, conservative justices appeared to side Wednesday with a religious-affiliated agency seeking a First Amendment right to reject LGBT couples in foster care services.

(WB) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of a former high school student who challenged his Virginia school district’s bathroom policy.

There were times during the U.S. Supreme Court’s oral argument in this session’s highly significant LGBT case when some listeners might have thought they were hearing a modern-day dramatic interpretation of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.

(WB) The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 5 heard oral arguments in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a case that could carry broad implications for whether and in which circumstances states may enforce certain nondiscrimination rules against purveyors of goods and services.

(CNN) The Supreme Court wrestled with a clash between religious freedom and LGBT rights on Tuesday as it heard arguments from a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake to celebrate a same-sex couple's marriage because he believes that God designed marriage to be between a man and a woman.

The primary issue before the U.S. Supreme Court Dec. 1 was abortion, but a swirl of other critical questions drew the justices’ attention.

(SFGN) The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would no longer hear the case of Gavin Grimm vs. the Gloucester County School Board, scheduled for March 28. The case was expected to set precedent for federal oversight on matters of antidiscrimination protections for public school students based on gender identity.

Gavin’s case focuses on Title IX protections, and allowing transgender students to use restrooms and consistent with their gender identity. Previous Title IX guidelines issued by the Obama administration had extended protections for this, as well as to allow students to be called by their preferred pronouns, for students to wear a tuxedos or dresses for school photos and events, based upon how they identify.

(WB) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in favor of a religious-affiliated foster care agency seeking to refuse child placement into LGBT homes, issuing a decision with a limited reach that determined the City of Philadelphia’s enforcement of a contract with non-discrimination provisions violates freedom of religion under the First Amendment.

The U.S. Supreme Court has set Dec. 5 as the day for oral arguments on whether a Colorado baker has a First Amendment right to refuse to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples over religious objections.

(AP) The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school.

A Christian minister in California attempted to challenge the state’s ban on conversion therapy for minors. The U.S. Supreme Court decided to leave the ban intact on Monday, rejecting the minister’s assertion that the ban is in violation of religious rights. 

(WB) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday announced it won’t hear a case seeking protecting for lesbian, gay and bisexual workers under existing civil rights law barring sex discrimination.

The U.S. Supreme Court sometimes makes significant moves long before it hears arguments in a case.

An important oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court this month went largely overlooked because of the nation’s nearly complete fixation on the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

There was no shortage of dramatic and consequential events to consider as the top stories for the LGBT community in 2022, and most of those events threaten to spill over into 2023.

June 30, 1986 was a broiling hot day in Washington, D.C. when the U.S. Supreme Court released the decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, a landmark sodomy decision.

“Are you looking forward to going to the party?” I asked in the car, on our way there.

With their decision to not hear the case, the US Supreme Court will allow a ruling denying gay spouses equal benefits as straight couples in Texas.

(WB) A Washington State florist who refused to service a gay couple’s wedding for religious reasons is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse state court rulings that she violated the state’s LGBT non-discrimination law.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - King County Superior Court Judge Mary Yu will be sworn in as the newest member of the Washington state Supreme Court, marking the first time the high court has had an openly gay justice.