Category: Around the World
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 […]
A 21-year-old man suspected of carrying out a deadly vehicle and stabbing attack near Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Pride celebrations has been shot dead during a police operation. Berlin police had earlier issued a public appeal for information about Abdul B., warning people not to approach him because he was believed to be armed and […]
A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to remove 16 transgender service members from a lawsuit challenging the Air Force’s decision to revoke their previously approved early retirements. Judge Elaine D. Kaplan of the United States Court of Federal Claims denied the Justice Department’s partial motion to dismiss on Wednesday, 22 July, allowing […]
Berlin police have identified a suspect following an apparent vehicle attack near the city’s Pride celebrations that killed one person and injured at least 16 others. The man, who had not been arrested by Sunday morning, is known to police as a member of Berlin’s “Islamist scene”, according to a police spokesperson. However, investigators stressed […]