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As Pride Month celebrations and protests come to an end, so too do the state civil rights protections for transgender and nonbinary Iowans. That’s because earlier this year, Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity as a protected status in its civil rights code.
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Gender identity as a protected class will soon be removed from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. This hour, how people and communities are responding.
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Today, we listen back to conversations with Iowan artist and author Luke Stoffel and Danish artist Thomas Dambo.
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In honor of Pride Month, we're listening back to a conversation with gay rights activist and native Iowan Sean Strub.
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Founded by two University of Iowa Hawkeye Marching Band alumni and a founding member of Girls Rock! Des Moines, Iowa Pride Ensembles debuted over the weekend with 70 marching musicians from across the state.
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Plus, a long-ranging investigative report was recently on the Davenport building collapse that occurred two years ago.
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Pride Month celebrations across the nation are seeing sponsors reduce their support or withdraw it entirely in response to political pressure from the Trump administration. But organizers in Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and Iowa City say that, at least this year, they're finding ways to make up — and even exceed — the lost funds.
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U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher blocked parts of Iowa’s LGBTQ instruction ban but upheld other sections in a ruling issued Thursday. He made a distinction between mandatory lessons and extracurriculars, but there are still questions on what is considered instruction.
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Author Mark Daley has shared his experiences fostering and what he learned along the way in the book Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care and the Risks We Take for Family.
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Some Iowans at the Trans Lives Festival in Des Moines say this may be their final time celebrating in the state, given a law stripping Iowa's Civil Rights Act of gender identity protections goes into effect July 1.