Category: Around the World
A federal judge has issued a decisive ruling preventing the Trump administration from enforcing a policy that would deny transgender and non-binary people the right to obtain passports reflecting their correct gender identity. The decision, delivered on 17 June, expands a prior injunction and now applies nationwide, effectively halting the federal government’s attempt to remove […]
The Supreme Court has upheld a controversial Tennessee law banning gender-affirming healthcare for minors, dealing a significant blow to trans rights across the United States. In a 6–3 decision, the court ruled that the law, which prohibits doctors from prescribing puberty blockers or hormone treatments to under-18s for gender dysphoria, does not breach the Equal […]
The Mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karácsony, has vowed to defy Hungary’s controversial ban on LGBTQ+ Pride events by integrating Budapest Pride into another city-sanctioned event. The move follows the passage of legislation banning LGBTQ+ marches, enacted by the country’s far-right government. “Freedom and love cannot be banned,” Karácsony declared, reaffirming that Budapest Pride would return […]
Anne Isabella Coombes, a 67-year-old trans woman, swam topless at the Cornwall County Masters swim meet to protest being forced by Swim England to compete against cisgender men in an “open” category. Despite previously competing in the female category in 2022 and 2023, Coombes was reclassified and placed into the new open division, introduced in […]
Donald Trump has refused to contact Minnesota Governor Tim Walz following the weekend assassination of pro‑LGBTQ+ House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, allegedly by a man identified as a Trump supporter. Instead, Trump dismissed Walz as “whacked out” and said calling him would “waste time.” “I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked […]
In a controversial Pride Month interview, gay Trump ally and Kennedy Centre President Richard Grenell claimed that gay people have “largely achieved equality” in the U.S. and suggested that “normal gays” vote Republican. “I think that we have largely achieved equality in this country for gays and lesbians,” Grenell told Politico’s Dasha Burns. “The gay […]
The British Library will posthumously reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader pass, more than a century after it was revoked due to his conviction for homosexuality — a move hailed as a symbolic gesture of apology and recognition of injustice. The late gay poet and playwright was banned from what was then the British Museum Reading Room […]
A Polish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has come under fire after being filmed vandalising an LGBTQ+ exhibition in the Sejm, the lower house of Poland’s parliament. Footage circulating online shows far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun aggressively tearing down rainbow-themed displays from easels and stomping on them until none were left standing. When questioned by […]