Category: Around the World
US Education Secretary Linda McMahon has accused public schools of helping transgender students change their names and pronouns without informing their parents, as the Trump administration threatens legal action and possible funding cuts against two school districts. McMahon made the claim during an appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, after host Maria Bartiromo asked […]
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people and allies marched through the Romanian city of Oradea on Saturday, 25 July, despite local authorities refusing to authorise the event for the fourth consecutive year. Organisers estimated that about 700 people joined the demonstration in the western city, defying warnings and fines to demand LGBTQ+ equality and defend the right […]
Donald Trump used part of his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to insult several LGBTQ+ journalists and public figures, including Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon and Dylan Mulvaney. The rescheduled dinner took place in Washington, DC, on Friday, 24 July. The annual event raises money for journalism scholarships and recognises reporting by members […]
Communities across rural Ohio are responding with messages of support for LGBTQ+ families after billboards declaring that no child has two mothers or two fathers appeared throughout the state. The advertisements, funded by Seattle-based organisation Them Before Us, state: “No child has two dads. No child has two moms.” The words “two dads” and “two […]
An estimated 150,000 people marched through central London on Saturday, 25 July, as the city’s Trans+ Pride event recorded what organisers described as the largest turnout for a trans-specific Pride march anywhere in the world. The attendance figure, provided by London Trans+ Pride organisers, represents a significant increase from the more than 100,000 people reported […]
Former US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has emerged at the top of a new national poll testing possible candidates for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. The latest Emerson College Polling survey found that 19% of likely Democratic primary voters supported Buttigieg, making the openly gay former cabinet secretary the leading candidate in the hypothetical contest. […]
Spain’s newly crowned World Cup champions have set queer social media alight after videos showed players kissing each other, embracing and becoming unusually affectionate with the trophy during their victory celebrations. For the record, none of the 26 players in Spain’s World Cup-winning squad has publicly identified as gay or bisexual. That has not stopped […]
Fears are growing that Gabon could reverse one of Africa’s most significant LGBTQ+ rights advances by reintroducing criminal penalties for consensual same-sex relationships and public advocacy. The Central African country decriminalised same-sex intimacy in 2020, overturning a provision introduced only a year earlier that classified sexual relations between people of the same sex as an […]