As the country becomes more and more progressive on same-sex rights and accepting of queer people, LGBTQ+ people are increasingly seeing themselves represented in the media. I’ll be honest — I don’t...

At the end of December 2014, a young girl named Leelah Alcorn took her own life. She was born Joshua Ryan Alcorn and was raised in a conservative Christian household. When she was 14, she came out to her...