: The community spans all racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, representing a wide spectrum of lived experiences. HRC | Human Rights Campaign Integration into LGBTQ+ Culture LGBTQ+ culture, often called queer culture

In the current political climate, the health of the is the barometer for the health of LGBTQ culture . While marriage equality (won in the US in 2015) addressed sexual orientation, it did not legislate gender identity safety. Today, the battleground has shifted to trans-specific issues: