After warnings that it might shut its doors for good, people have raised $250,000 to secure the future of the Stonewall Inn. The bar is considered the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement, and was designated a US National Monument by Barack Obama in 2016 in recognition of the 1969 Stonewall riots – which were sparked(…)
There are calls to rename John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, over his white supremacist and homophobic beliefs. The Democratic Party of Orange County passed a resolution on Friday that called for Wayne’s name and likeness to be removed from the Orange County airport, one of several airports that serves the greater Los Angeles area, over(…)
Creative LGBT+ activists in Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv have used drones to vastly improve a Soviet-era monument. Like Pride parades around the world, the annual Kyiv Pride march – which has previously drawn violent far-right counter-protesters – has been cancelled in 2020 due to coronavirus. With LGBT+ people prevented from marching through the streets, on Sunday activists(…)
Police investigating the murder of Dominique Rem’mie Fells, a Black trans woman whose dismembered body was pulled from a river in Philadelphia, have issued an arrest warrant for a murder suspect in connection with the case. Warning – contains graphic descriptions of violence. Fell’s mutilated body was recovered from the Schuylkill river on June 9. Her corpse(…)
Jayne Thompson, a trans woman shot dead by a Colorado State Trooper during an apparent mental health crisis, was misgendered by the officer involved, the coroner, the district attorney and the media. Thompson was killed on May 9 in an incident at the side of the road in Mesa County, Colorado — but her gender(…)
The Trump administration has put forward a new immigration rule that would allow judges to dismiss applications from LGBT+ asylum seekers without even hearing their case. The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have proposed revised rules for immigration cases which would drastically narrow the eligibility of people who have faced persecution to claim asylum.(…)
Human rights campaigners have called on Saudi Arabia to release blogger Mohamad al-Bokari, who was detained after stating his support for LGBT+ rights. According to Human Rights Watch, al-Bokari was arrested on April 8 after an online Q&A in which he said: “Everyone has rights and should be able to practice them freely, including gay people.”(…)
Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot has spoken out over a video of a police officer shouting an anti-gay slur at Black Lives Matter protesters in the city. A clip emerged on social media last week of the unnamed officer, dressed in a Chicago Police Department uniform, snapping back at protesters after a projectile is thrown. The officer,(…)
A new study has revealed that nearly a third of trans and non-binary young people have attempted suicide in the past 12 months. More than 25,000 queer young people between the ages of 13 and 24 were surveyed for the peer-reviewed study by researchers at The Trevor Project, which has been published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.(…)
Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has accused Donald Trump of giving “safe harbour” to anti-LGBT+ hate. In a message marking the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Biden called out the Trump administration’s “odious” agenda on LGBT+ issues. He wrote: “The Trump-Pence administration has done everything it can to undermine LGBT+ rights: giving safe harbour(…)