News

/ /

UK LGBT Hate Crimes Stats Make Shocking Reading

New hate crimes data for the United Kingdom shows a shocking number of incidents targeting LGBT people. As I was reading these figures, the need for LGBT-inclusive classes in UK schools has never been more apparent. The data, released last week, shows police recorded 14,491 crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation in 2018-19. Police recorded a further 2,333 offenses against transgender people because of their gender identity. Every year, the UK government releases police data on hate crimes on the basis of race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Offenses are recorded as hate crimes if the […]

/ /

Trump is Abandoning Vulnerable LGBT Migrants to Face Abuse at Mexican Border

Vulnerable LGBT+ migrants are being kept in Mexican border cities to face violence and abuse, despite the fact that they are supposed to be excluded from Trump’s Remain in Mexico program. Remain in Mexico, technically know as the Migrant Protection Protocols program (MPP), was implemented in January 2019 and means that asylum seekers and migrants waiting to be processed by the US government must wait on the Mexican side of the border. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that “individuals from vulnerable populations” would not be subject to the Remain in Mexico, and that it would only send back those […]

/ /

Supreme Court Justices Met with Leader of Anti-gay Hate Group ahead LGBT Rights Cases

Before announcing their judgement on three critical LGBT+ rights cases, US Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito chose to meet with the leader of a notorious anti-LGBT+ hate group. Kavanaugh and Alito met with Brian Brown, who is the co-founder of the National Organisation for Marriage (NOM) and the president of the World Congress of Families (WCF). Both groups actively campaign against basic LGBT+ rights in the US and beyond. Brown himself has long organised against LGBT+ communities, promoted harmful laws and emboldened other hate groups and extremists. Recently, he boasted of his close relationship with autocratic Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and met with […]

/ /

Trump Rule Would Let Faith-based Adoption Group Exclude LGBTQ Parents

The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would allow faith-based foster care and adoption agencies to continue getting taxpayer funding even if they exclude LGBTQ families and others from their services based on religious beliefs. The announcement generated a sharp backlash from some Democratic lawmakers and LGBT advocacy groups. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the Trump administration was working overtime to “implement cruel and discriminatory policies, and wasting taxpayer dollars in its obsessive pursuit.” President Donald Trump has made addressing the concerns of evangelical voters a priority of his presidency. The White House says the rule from the Department of Health […]

/ /

Gay Man in Turkmenistan Goes Missing after Saying he Might be ‘Taken Away’

A gay man in the central Asian country Turkmenistan has gone missing after claiming in a heartbreaking video that he might be “forcibly taken away”. Kasymberdy Garayev has reportedly vanished alongside his mother, father and siblings after police discovered that he is gay. Gay men can be imprisoned for up to two years in Turkmenistan.ADVERTISING In the video – seemingly directed at his family – Garayev said: “My dears, forgive me. I’ve caused you a lot of pain recently. I made you cry. “I didn’t mean to hurt you. If I am forcibly taken away, know that I am innocent. Please forgive […]

/ /

Transgender Woman Murdered in El Salvador Capital

Last Sunday, Oct. 27, dawned with the blood of one more LGBTQ Salvadoran spilled. Authorities say a group of armed suspects who were inside a van grabbed Anahy Miranda Rivas, 27, on Boulevard de los Héroes in San Salvador, the Salvadoran capital. Preliminary reports indicate the suspects held and dragged her for several meters along the boulevard before they stabbed her with a sharp object. The suspects then left Rivas’ body near a nightclub on Boulevard de los Héroes.  Authorities arrived at the scene after a group of people who realized what had happened called 911. Additional details have not […]

/ /

Design Concepts Unveiled for Pulse Memorial, Museum

A memorial for Florida’s Pulse nightclub massacre will have a reflecting pool with rainbow-colored lines radiating from it, and a nearby museum will resemble a three-dimensional spirograph, according to design concepts announced Wednesday. Forty-nine people were killed and dozens more were injured when a gunman opened fire at the gay nightclub in June 2016. It was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history until a gunman opened fire on Las Vegas concertgoers in 2017. Related NBC OUT Ex-gays descend upon D.C. to lobby against LGBTQ rights The design concepts are only a starting point for discussions on the Pulse […]

/

UnDocuFund Has Re-launched to Help Guest Workers

Our community is once again on fire, and we need your help.The UndocuFund for Fire Relief in Sonoma County has reopened to support undocumented families who have lost homes, jobs, wages, or been displaced by the still-growing Kincade Fire. Would you consider donating once again to help our community recover?Your incredible generosity allowed us to distribute more than $6 million to undocumented fire victims in Sonoma County following the 2017 Northern California fires. Thousands of donors like you, along with dozens of benefits and volunteers, allowed us to give direct financial aid to nearly 2,000 families who lost homes, possessions, and earnings due […]

/ /

Kentucky Supreme Court Sides with Company that Refused to Make Pride T-shirt

The Kentucky Supreme Court has sided with a print shop owner who refused to make a gay pride T-shirt because he says it was against his religious beliefs. The state’s high court dismissed the claim after two lower courts also ruled in favor of Lexington print shop Hands-On Originals. The company declined a T-shirt order from Lexington’s Gay and Lesbian Services Organization for the city’s 2012 Gay Pride Festival. The design said “Lexington Pride Festival” on the front. Related NBC OUT Trump judicial pick breaks down when pressed on LGBTQ views The high court ruled Thursday that the gay advocacy […]

/ /

Jamaica’s Anti-gay Laws are Costing it $11billion per Year

Archaic anti-gay laws in Jamaica and discrimination against LGBT+ people are costing the nation around $11billion per year, according to the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI). CAPRI held an event on Tuesday, October 29, called “Paying for Prejudice”, at which it looked into the financial costs to the country as a result of anti-LGBT+ discrimination. In Jamaica, anal sex is prohibited and punishable by life imprisonment for any individual, any sexual encounter between men is illegal, and there are no protections for LGBT+ people against discrimination. According to The Gleaner, although a lack of LGBT+ visitors to the tourism-dependent country is causing […]

«‹ 412 413 414 415›»