62 percent of gay and lesbian Black Census respondents report having felt threatened or harassed at least a few times a year, while a quarter say they feel threatened or harassed once a week or more. The data comes from the US-based Black Futures Lab, which gathered responses from 5,400 black LGB people to its self-selecting(…)
The American Medical Association has warned that violence against transgender people is rising in the US. The medical body issued a warning about an “epidemic of violence against the transgender community, especially the amplified physical dangers faced by transgender people of colour.” American Medical Association board member Dr. S. Bobby Mukkamala said: “According to available(…)
A new analysis has found that three-quarters of lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans believe in God, but many don’t identify as part of an organised religion. The finding comes from a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the 2014 Religious Landscape Study. According to the survey data, 77 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults(…)
Anti-LGBT New York preacher James David Manning is facing allegations of abuse against school children. Manning, the pastor at ATLAH World Missionary Church in Harlem, has attracted attention online for his outlandish anti-LGBT conspiracy theories. The preacher famously alleged that Starbucks flavours lattes with the “semen of Sodomites,” while the church sign regularly proclaims anti-gay messages like “Jesus would(…)
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has hit out at the Trump administration’s newly-announced ‘freedom to discriminate’ rules for healthcare workers. Pelosi led a stinging rebuke after Trump unveiled new rules that permit healthcare workers the right to discriminate based on their religious beliefs before an audience of conservative evangelical leaders at a May 2 White House reception. The Department(…)
Iowa Republicans have launched an eleventh-hour plot to cut off funding for transgender people’s healthcare. Republicans in the Iowa Senate launched a surprise attack on Friday (April 26), quietly slipping in an amendment to a crucial healthcare funding bill taking aim at transgender people. Iowa Republicans ‘slip in’ amendment to cut off transgender healthcare funding(…)
A new campaign has launched, calling on the Church of England to end its ban on same-sex weddings. The Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England launched on Friday (April 12), seeking an end to rules that ban same-sex weddings in Church parishes, and an end to rules that target gay vicars for getting married.(…)
Lesbian musical The Prom has landed seven nominations at the Tony Awards. The nominations for the 73rd annual Tony Awards were announced on Tuesday (April 30), with The Prom among the most-nominated shows. The musical tells the story of a girl who is denied permission to bring a female date to her high school prom, mirroring several real-life news stories.T The(…)
As Barack Obama’s former Vice President Joe Biden announces his own run for US president, we look at his LGBT rights record. The candidate launched his long-rumoured campaign for President on Thursday (April 25), with polls making him the immediate favourite to clinch the nomination, ahead of Bernie Sanders and gay candidate Pete Buttigieg. Serving as vice president of the(…)
National Guards in at least five states will continue to welcome trans troops, despite the Trump administration’s transgender military ban coming into effect. The Trump administration rule that bans transgender people from serving in the armed forces went into effect on April 12. However, a number of states have signalled that they will not extend discriminatory(…)