Day: August 19, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to allow President Joe Biden’s administration to enforce a significant part of a new rule aimed at protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination based on gender identity in 10 Republican-led states that had challenged the measure. The justices rejected the administration’s request to partially lift lower court injunctions, which had blocked […]

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has appointed Dr Stephen Rainbow as head of the anti-discrimination Human Rights Commission. Craig Young assesses what the appointment of a centre-right gay man, means for the commission. At sixty-three, Rainbow has had a broad spectrum of political affiliations, starting with Labour in the eighties and the Greens in the nineties, […]

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has signed into law an amendment that bans the “promotion” of LGBTQ+ topics in schools, despite calls for a veto from intellectuals and a protest by rights groups on August 15. The newly enacted law prohibits the “propaganda, promotion, or incitement” of ideas related to nontraditional sexual orientations and gender identities […]