A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump from passing a ban on transgender people from serving in the military. US District Judge Marsha Pechman compared the policy to the historical exclusion of blacks from the military and the ban on mixed units when she rejected a revised ban in April. And the Seattle judge(…)
Vatican City – Only heterosexual families can form a family, Pope Francis said on Saturday, when he also condemned abortion and hailed the “sanctity” of women who forgive cheating husbands. “It is painful to say this today: People speak of varied families, of various kinds of family,” but “the family [as] man and woman in(…)
The US Supreme Court is to decide whether to review the case of a gay man who was sentenced to death over a fatal stabbing because the jury was allegedly “homophobic.” Charles Rhines was sentenced to death by a jury in 1993, after he bound and stabbed a man to death while robbing a doughnut(…)
The Trump administration has gained a reputation for repudiation of policies enacted during the Obama years, but has adopted the plan of the Obama White House in combatting the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of HIV/AIDS & Infectious Disease Policy issued a 69-page progress report indicating the Trump administration has(…)
Russian police on Thursday arrested a prominent British LGBTI rights advocate ahead of the opening of the 2018 World Cup in MoscowA picture the Peter Tatchell Foundation released shows Peter Tatchell holding a sign while standing near the Kremlin that highlighted the ongoing crackdown against gay men in Chechnya. Tatchell was speaking with a police(…)
This weekend, Dave Daubenmire is hosting an “All Hands On Deck” gathering in Thornville, Ohio during which he and several other Religious Right activists will hold protests outside a local mosque and a local women’s health clinic, as well as at the Pride parade in Columbus. On his “Pass The Salt Live” webcast this morning,(…)
Sen. Orrin Hatch took an unusual step for a Republican from Utah on Wednesday and recognized June as Pride month, invoking the occasion to draw attention to LGBT youth suicide.In remarks on the Senate floor, Hatch maintained suicide affects all corners of society, but is “particularly acute” among LGBT youth, whom the senator said “experience(…)
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images) Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world The new Prime Minister of Spain has chosen two openly gay men to serve as cabinet ministers. The cabinet of recently appointed leader Pedro Sanchez was announced as one of the most(…)
Last November, a year and change after Donald Trump’s surprise election, respected New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse wrote a column about the “conservative plan to weaponize the federal courts.” While progressives generally expected Trump to payback his conservative supporters with at least one Supreme Court justice, a 37-page plan written by Northwestern University(…)
From DNC chairman Tom Perez: “Two years ago, our nation witnessed one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. It was an attack on the LGBTQ community, the Latinx community, and LGBTQ people of color everywhere. It was an attack on the American people and the values of diversity and equality that all of(…)