Gay Trump official Richard Grenell has financial links to Hungary’s far-right, anti-LGBT+ government. The Trump-supporting official, who was named as Trump’s acting director of national intelligence last week, is facing questions over undeclared work carried out by his PR firm, Capitol Media Partners. The Washington Post reports that Grenell failed to register as a foreign agent in(…)
The seven remaining Democratic presidential candidates have all said they would overturn Donald Trump’s ban on trans people in the military. Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Mike Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer have all said they would reverse the policy imposed by Trump in 2017 to ban trans people from serving in the(…)
Every single UK venue booked by anti-LGBT preacher Franklin Graham has now ditched his events, after an outcry from activists. The Trump-supporting preacher, who is known for praising Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws and blaming gay people for a “moral 9/11”, is set to visit the UK at the start of Pride Month in June as part of an(…)
Elizabeth Warren has vowed to get help from a nine-year-old transgender boy in picking her secretary of education. The Democratic presidential hopeful told supporters in Iowa that she would ask Jacob, a nine-year-old transgender boy who she met at an LGBT+ event, to vet her picks for the cabinet role. Elizabeth Warren: Trans kid will(…)
Two further venues have cancelled rallies by US hate preacher Franklin Graham, as a backlash grows to his planned UK tour. The Trump-supporting preacher, who is known for praising Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws and blaming gay people for a “moral 9/11”, is set to visit the UK at the start of Pride Month in June as part of(…)
The governor of New Jersey has signed a bill to officially ban the archaic ‘gay panic’ and ‘trans panic’ defence in the state. The new law, signed by Democratic governor Phil Murphy on Tuesday, prevents criminal defendants from claiming that they were provoked to violence after discovering the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity –(…)
A city has been forced to spend more than $300,000 defending itself from legal challenges over its decision to block a Chick-fil-A from opening in an airport. The city of San Antonio, Texas, has faced lawsuits and a federal investigation pushed by Republican officials over the March 2019 decision to block the chicken chain from opening an outlet in(…)
A school district is facing legal action from the mother of a 12-year-old who took his own life after homophobic bullying. Marcy Peterson has filed a lawsuit against the school district in Upper Deerfield, New Jersey, after the suicide of her son Tristan in 2017. Tristan faced bullying and taunting from his classmates at both(…)
A conservative law firm has threatened legal action against a school district over a policy that bans teachers from outing their students. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty sent a letter of demand to Madison School District, seeking the repeal of its policy on support for transgender, non-binary and gender-expansive students.ADVERTISING The disputed policy,(…)
Hotel giant Marriott has issued an apology after a same-sex couple were told to take their wedding booking elsewhere. Travel YouTuber Josh Rimer and husband-to-be Heath spoke out after booking a wedding at the Marriott-owned Sheraton Buganvilias Resort and Convention Center in the gay-friendly city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.ADVERTISING Hotel claimed it is ‘not specialised’(…)