Category: Around the World
In 2023, US state lawmakers have been busy introducing anti-LGBTQ+ bills at an alarming rate, with over 425 introduced this year – more than the combined total of the past five years. While these bills vary in scope, over 20 have already been enacted into law and 127 focus on limiting healthcare for transgender individuals. […]
Maryland resident, Adam Michael Nettina, has been charged with threatening LGBTQ+ rights group the Human Rights Campaign in what authorities believe to be a reaction to the March 27 mass shooting at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. Nettina has been charged with interstate communications containing a threat to injure for allegedly leaving a menacing […]
A federal judge in Texas has mandated the immediate restoration of at least 12 books removed from Llano County public libraries, many of which contained LGBTQ+ content. The judge’s order, which was filed on Thursday, gives county officials 24 hours to comply and comes after seven residents filed a lawsuit in April 2022 against county officials, […]
Kentucky’s Republican lawmakers have successfully overridden Governor Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill widely criticised as the “most extreme anti-LGBTQ bill in America.” The new law, which includes a ban on transgender medical treatment for minors, has led to heated protests at the statehouse, resulting in 19 arrests. Supporters of LGBTQ+ rights gathered in large […]
The UK government has confirmed it intends to wind down its vaccination campaign against mpox, which began in May 2022 and has disproportionately affected men who have sex with men. The decision made by the UK government follows the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) confirmation that mpox, a virus formerly known as monkeypox, remains a public […]
On Thursday (23 March), Republican Governor Brad Little of Idaho signed Senate Bill 1100 into law, restricting transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender. The new law, which effectively bars trans youth in the state from using the correct bathroom, allows students to take legal action against public schools that allow trans […]
Pope Francis, the leader of Catholicism, recently denounced “gender ideology”, labelling it as the “most dangerous colonisation.” The Pope made the comments during a conversation with the Argentinian newspaper LA NACION on Friday, the 10th of March, where the Pope criticised present-day dialogues concerning gender. “Why is it dangerous?” he asked Vatican correspondent Elisabetta Piqué, “Because […]
Authorities have arrested four people in Zambia after marching against gender-based violence – something local police says was “championing homosexuality.” The four women arrested are all members of the Non-Government Organisation, the Sistah Sistah Foundation, which organised the event on the 4th of March at the Rugby Club in the Lusaka Showgrounds. Accused of giving […]