Category: Around the World
Dr. Phil McGraw has been accused of anti-gay discrimination by his former publicist, Jerry Sharell, who alleges he lost his job because of his sexuality. Sharell has filed a lawsuit against McGraw and his North Texas media company, Envoy Media, claiming he was deliberately excluded when much of the operation relocated to Fort Worth. McGraw […]
A federal judge has again struck down a Texas law restricting some drag performances, ruling that it violates the First Amendment. US District Judge David Hittner found Senate Bill 12 unconstitutional for a second time on 25 August, blocking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing the measure. The law was passed in 2023 and […]
The Log Cabin Republicans have formally dropped transgender advocacy from their national mission, declaring themselves an “LGB advocacy organisation” after more than a decade of including trans people within their stated work. National president Ross Hemminger announced the shift on 20 August, saying the conservative LGBTQ+ organisation will now concentrate specifically on sexual orientation and […]
One of West Africa’s most senior Anglican leaders has spoken out against Ghana’s sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ bill, saying gay people should not be criminalised even as he maintains the Church’s traditional teaching on same-sex relationships. Archbishop Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith, Primate of the Church of the Province of West Africa and Bishop of Asante-Mampong, made his position […]
Ohio has abruptly ended a longstanding process that allowed transgender people to update the gender marker on their driver’s licence or state identification card without first changing other identity documents. The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles is no longer accepting its previous gender-change process, which allowed people to submit a professionally certified form requesting an […]
Around 12% of adults in the United States identify as LGBTQ+, according to a new analysis of millions of responses collected by the US Census Bureau. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation analysed more than 2.4 million responses from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey collected between 2021 and 2024, offering one of the largest recent […]
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has drawn criticism after using an anti-transgender slur during a public appearance at the Iowa State Fair. Hegseth made the remark on 17 August while appearing alongside Republican congressman Zach Nunn at Operation Top Nunn: Salute To The Troops, an annual veterans and fundraising event held at JR’s SouthPork Ranch. […]
Russia has reportedly censored passages about LGBTQ+ people from the late Pope Francis’ autobiography, removing comments in which he spoke about homosexuality, transgender people and blessings for same-sex couples. The Russian-language edition of Hope: The Autobiography was published in 2026 by Alpina Publisher, after the book was released the previous year internationally. But readers in […]