Day: July 12, 2025

South African Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya has won a partial legal victory in her ongoing battle against discriminatory sex eligibility rules in sport, with Europe’s top human rights court finding her right to a fair trial was violated. On Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Semenya had not received a […]

A San Francisco-based drag performer, known by the stage name Hilary Rivers, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on 26 June, moments after attending his asylum hearing. They were later transferred to an ICE detention facility near Bakersfield. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Rivers, a Central American native, was in court seeking asylum […]

The US government has once again come under fire for erasing LGBTQ+ history—this time by quietly removing references to bisexual people from the website for the Stonewall National Monument in New York. The monument, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall riots led by trans women of colour outside the iconic Stonewall Inn, had already drawn criticism […]