LGBTQ

A Des Moines OBGYN shares how the current political climate has impacted patients and lawmakers discuss a new bill that would remove gender identity as a protected characteristic from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

Last week, lawmakers pushed ahead with several policy proposals and Gov. Kim Reynolds unveiled her plans for improving health care access.

Civil rights protections for transgender Iowans would be removed from state law under a bill introduced Thursday by Republicans on the Iowa House Judiciary Committee.

LGBTQ topics would be banned from middle school and high school curriculum under a bill advancing in the Iowa House that seeks to expand a law that currently applies to Kindergarten through sixth grade.

Expert readers discuss Alice Walker's The Color Purple on this archive episode of the Talk of Iowa book club.

Actor Will Ferrell and writer Harper Steele have been collaborators and friends for 30 years.

In the 1980s, an Iowa City art teacher wrote to Keith Haring not expecting a response. This resulted in a friendship and two visits by Haring to Horn Elementary.

Iowa's first transgender state lawmaker was elected Tuesday night.

After Tuesday's election, the Iowa Senate and House are likely to end with supermajorities for Republicans. At the same time, the state elected its first transgender representative to serve in the Statehouse as a Democrat.

Drag queens at the Iowa City gay bar Studio 13 started the competition to give drag artists a chance to experiment, grow and gain recognition. Now, past contestants are going head-to-head in “Star Search: All Stars.”