Workers also join Homegrown sandwich workers on the picket line.

Grindr, the popular LGBTQ hookup app, is now facing unfair labor practice charges filed by the newly organized labor union representing its 200 employees.

On Monday, the SBWU bus stopped at the world's very first Starbucks in the Pike Place Market, which was renamed "Strike Place Market" for the occasion.

"God loves us as we are," Pope Francis told a young Trans person on a July 25 podcast.

Hundreds of Starbucks workers and supporters from many other unions marched at Seattle's Pride Parade on June 25.

Starbucks workers say their employer is barring Pride decorations from its stores.

Seattle Pride's "Pride Guide" will not carry an ad from Starbucks Workers United (SBWU), the union that represents the coffee giant's employees, even though the union submitted ad copy by the deadline.

The complaint asks for an ILO investigation because US laws and enforcement mechanisms are "woefully inadequate to deal with a big, powerful employer determined to crush union organizing."

Seattle's libraries joined Books Unbanned – a new program designed to allow young people to choose their own reading material – on April 27.

Ten candidates are running for the seat now held by Kshama Sawant, who is leaving the council to build a new organization, Workers Strike Back.

The Florida State Senate has passed a bill that would bar children from attending drag performances, including drag queen story hours.

The City of Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville, voted narrowly to reauthorize the annual Pride Festival.

Janet Protasiewicz, currently a judge on Milwaukee County's Circuit Court, easily defeated Dan Kelly, a Trump supporter who was involved in the plot to return fake electors from Wisconsin in the 2020 presidential election.

Hundreds of Starbucks workers and supporters from other unions rallied in front of Starbucks corporate headquarters at First Avenue and Lander Street on March 22.

Texas Republicans have introduced a bill in the state's legislature to ban Pride events in public schools.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill on March 21 that bars Transgender public school students from using gender-appropriate restrooms. Arkansas is the fourth state to do so.

The white nationalist Proud Boys got the worst of it in a brawl they provoked at a drag queen story hour in NYC last weekend.

In a 61-35 vote on March 14, the Republican-controlled state assembly ensured that a ban on the practice could not take effect.

The Bremerton High School football coach who successfully challenged his school district's policy on public prayer will get his old coaching job back.

Florida Republicans have introduced the latest in their string of anti-Transgender bills: a measure that would allow the state to take custody of minors who are receiving gender-affirming medical care.