An anti-LGBT lobbying group is fighting to keep details of its discussions with the Trump administration private – after a subpoena directed activists to turn over documents relating to the transgender troop ban. Donald Trump announced on Twitter in July 2017 that all transgender servicepeople would be purged from the US armed forces, claiming they were a(…)
Portugal has passed a law that allows transgender people to change their legal gender under a “self determination” system. The new law, which makes Portugal the sixth European country to adopt a “self-ID” gender recognition law, passed through the country’s parliament on Friday by a reported vote of 109-106. It removes a medical diagnosis requirement for(…)
Ronan Farrow (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images) Influential journalist Ronan Farrow, who helped expose Harvey Weinstein, has come out. Farrow was one of the first journalists to expose allegations of sexual abuse by Weinstein in The New Yorker last October. The former NBC News personality, who is the son of Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen,(…)
(Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images) Comedian Eddie Izzard has been appointed to the Labour Party’s governing body. The comedian and political activist, who previously identified as a transvestite but has since started using the umbrella term “transgender”, has vowed to become one of the first trans people elected to Parliament. Earlier this year he failed to win election(…)
The US Conference Of Catholic Bishops has thrown its support behind a proposed federal law explicitly permitting anti-gay marriage discrimination. Earlier this month a group of 22 Republican Senators reintroduced the First Amendment Defense Act, a bill that would block the federal government from enforcing anti-discrimination protections or civil rights laws in cases where people acted based on(…)
Theresa May has refused to condemn Downing Street staff who allegedly outed a whistleblower as gay – putting his Pakistani family in danger. Prime Minister Theresa May’s special adviser Stephen Parkinson came under fire over the weekend after he put out a statement via Downing Street revealing the sexuality of former Brexit campaigner Shahmir Sanni, who had come(…)
The trial of the wife of Pulse shooter Omar Mateen has taken a dramatic twist – after it emerged that Mateen’s father was an FBI informant. Forty-nine people died at Orlando’s Pulse gay club during a horrific mass shooting in June 2016, when Omar Mateen, who had pledged support for ISIS, opened fire at the(…)
An anti-gay pastor who based his campaign on opposing same-sex marriage has a strong lead in Costa Rica’s Presidential election. The Central American country’s Presidential battle has been largely defined by a battle over same-sex marriage, with fringe evangelical Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz receiving a surge in support after running an aggressive anti-gay marriage campaign – besting(…)
Jake Bain (right) and his boyfriend (Photo courtesy Jake Bain) Hundreds of pro-LGBT protesters turned up to drown out the Westboro Baptist Church, when they decided to target a gay high school footballer. Jake Bain, a popular footballer at John Burroughs School in St. Louis, Missouri, came out publicly as gay last October at an all-school assembly.(…)
Donald Trump has ousted his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replaced him with former GOP lawmaker Mike Pompeo, who has an extensive anti-LGBT record. Under the leadership of former oil exec Rex Tillerson, Trump’s State Department had maintained some of the work on global LGBT rights that had begun under the Obama administration. While other(…)