LGBTQ community protest against discrimination in Ecuador with “public kiss” demonstration (Photo by JUAN CEVALLOS/AFP/Getty Images) LGBTQ+ people are being forced into “gay cure” rehab clinics and subjected to rape and beatings in Ecuador. Campaigners in the country have called on the government to investigate into over 100 clinics in which they believe human rights(…)
Decrying the rollback of transgender rights in the Trump administration, lawmakers led by Rep. Joseph Kennedy III (D-Mass) are seeking a meeting with civil rights officials in federal agencies “to end the current pattern of publicly-funded and government-sanctioned discrimination.” The letter, dated Feb. 13 and obtained Monday exclusively by the Washington Blade, is addressed to(…)
(Lambda Legal/Jessica Hicklin) A trans prisoner in Missouri has won a landmark court case meaning that she will be able to access gender-affirming treatments. Jessica Heckling has been n the Potosi Correctional Center since she was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1995. At just 16-years-old, was convicted of first-degree murder and armed(…)
Donald Trump’s budget plans include a massive slash to HIV funding. The GOP billionaire has come under fire from LGBT groups following the release of his 2019 budget plans released on Monday. The budget includes cuts to domestic HIV/AIDS programs, despite the growing needs, including elimination of Special Programs of National Significance (SPNS). The Human(…)
The Education Department has told BuzzFeed News it won’t investigate or take action on any complaints filed by transgender students who are banned from restrooms that match their gender identity, charting new ground in the Trump administration’s year-long broadside against LGBT rights. It’s the first time officials have asserted this position publicly as an interpretation(…)
(Twitter/rad85e) Eric Radford has become the first ever openly gay man to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. The Canadian athlete won gold in the team figure skating event after he and his partner Meagan Duhamel skated magnificently to Adele’s Hometown Glory. (Twitter/rad85e) He followed in the footsteps of Australian diver Matthew Mitcham,(…)
An anti-LGBT+ Christian group has purchased a former gay bar – with the intent of converting it into a church. The popular Bretz Nightclub in Toledo, Ohio, which was one of the oldest LGBT venues in the area, closed suddenly in December. The vacated venue was purchased for $148,000 in January by the extreme(…)
A global study into the treatment of transgender people has revealed that three in five people deliberately misgender trans people in order to cause disrespect. A study carried out by Ipsos looked into the treatment and social perception of transgender people across 16 countries. Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland,(…)
(Photo by ACLU of Southern California/YouTube) US pharmacy giant Walgreens has updated its bathroom policy to be trans-friendly after a woman was denied access because an employee thought she was transgender. Jessie Meehan helped implement a companywide policy which allows customers to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender policy. Meehan took on the(…)
Fox News executive vice president John Moody writes: Unless it’s changed overnight, the motto of the Olympics, since 1894, has been “Faster, Higher, Stronger.” It appears the U.S. Olympic Committee would like to change that to “Darker, Gayer, Different.” If your goal is to win medals, that won’t work. A USOC official was quoted this(…)