Category: Around the World
The U.S Army and Air Force are being sued after allegations that an openly lesbian member of the National Guard was pressured to “appear more feminine” by her boss. According to the Daily Beast, Kristin M Kingrey of the West Virginia Air National Guard (WVNG) has claimed that she was held back from promotion twice […]
Former U.S President Donald Trump has promised that his re-election would see transgender athletes banned from competing across the United States. Trump, who made history by becoming the first single-term president of the United States in almost 30 years, made his remarks during a ‘MAGA’ rally in Texas (his first in the state since 2019). […]
The United Kingdom is set to open its first-ever national LGBTQ+ museum in Kings Cross, London, later in 2022. The museum, which will be called Queer Britain, will explore stories, people and places that have been vital and central to the UK rainbow community. Organisers who have been working on the project since 2018 promise […]
Lawmakers in the U.S. State of Florida have passed a bill that will ban discussions of LGBTQ+ topics including, gender identity and sexuality, in classrooms. Known as the “Parental Rights in Education” bill, House Bill (HB 1557) would prevent schools from engaging in and encouraging classroom discussion about LGBTQ+ topics and people in “primary grade […]
In what has been described as a historic step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the Asian region, a judge in Taiwan has ruled in favour of a gay man wanting to adopt his husband’s non-biological child. The ruling, which was made on the 25th of December at a family court in Kaohsiung city, will enable […]
Despite preaching that Jesus and conversion therapy can give “freedom from homosexual and transgender lifestyles,” – “Ex-gay” leader Jeffrey McCall has admitted that he still sleeps with men. The self-titled “former homosexual” and “former transgender woman” Jeffrey McCall, who founded the group Freedom March – an organisation that holds marches to oppose bans on conversion […]
The UK government has announced further plans to help individuals obtain official pardons for historical convictions of gay and bisexual men convicted of consensual gay sex prior to homosexual law reforms. Agreeing to amend the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, the UK government aims to help expunge the records of people who were convicted […]
As a guest on the new podcast The Vanity Project, legendary LGBT+ activist Peter Tatchell has discussed forgiving the older generation who might not have got everything right. “An older generation comes to LGBT+ issues from a very different background, so we have to make some allowances – not a free pass – but a […]