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Rhode Island's Health Care Provider Shield Act would limit risk of hostile out-of-state laws related to abortion, transgender health care

Connecticut lawmakers and advocates are pushing for legislation offering protections for trans and LGBTQ+ students.

Steve Ahlquist reports on the Westerly School Committee's attempts to replace the RIDE-recommended transgender student policy.

Read one essay about a trans Palestinian-American chef, and another about queer Muslim Americans as they navigate anti-LGBTQ+ culture wars.

Counter-protest against an anti-trans rally at the RI statehouse non Saturday April 13.

The harder one tries to silence people motivated by love or saving lives, the louder they will become. The recent firing of a Providence...

After State Representative Rebecca Kislak (Democrat, District 4, Providence) introduced the Equity Impact Statement Act on Friday in the...

A year after neo-Nazis stormed Red Ink trying to stop an annual celebration of The Communist Manifesto, bricks were thrown through and...

Options Magazine visited a defensive action to protect children and Queer people from extremists attempting to disrupt Drag Story Time at...

A far-right Charles Koch-funded front group tried to bring anti-Trans hate to Cranston and found an army of activists waiting to call...

Rhode Island voters are accusing candidates in Providence and Woonsocket of bashing their opponents for being LGBTQ while out on the...

Providence Vibes, an Options podcast is out with its second episode and its much more coherent than before. In the second episode of...

The 2022 election season is upon us. And if you have not yet noticed, there are a record number of LGBTQ+ candidates running for various...

Respectability has never saved us from abuse or police brutality. It’s never kept us from being disrespected or ridiculed, and it never...

This piece originally appeared in UpriseRI and is republished with permission at Options. Little Compton’s LGBTQ+ Coordinating Committee,...

Anti-LGBTQ hate groups have been planning a comeback for years –– they succeeded. From their new “groomer” language, COVID conspiracies,...

"It’s The Very Least I Can Do!" When Jennifer O’Connor Lima ran for the school committee in North Kingstown she knew it would be tough...

Rep. Patricia Morgan, who achieved nationwide infamy for claiming on Twitter she lost her Black friend but “didn't do anything to her,...

Rhode Island’s legislature has its very own Three Stooges, except they don’t do slapstick comedy, this bipartisan trio peddles trash...

Options Magazine profiled Red Ink last November. Jackie Goldman, a Queer Jewish member of Red Ink's board, and a candidate for Providence...