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Judicial Candidate who Claimed Gays ‘Face Eternal Damnation’ Suspended

A Trump-supporting Florida judicial candidate has had his law license suspended after saying that gay people will “face eternal damnation.” Attorney Donald McBath has been suspended from the Florida Bar for violating the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct while running to become a state circuit court judge. In a filing with the Florida Supreme Court, the Florida Bar asserted that McBath had “failed to maintain the dignity appropriate to judicial office and act in a manner that is consistent with impartiality, integrity, and independence of the judiciary” due to anti-Muslim and anti-gay messages posted to social media. Trump-supporting attorney claimed God can […]

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Trans Kids Are as Sure of their Gender as Cis Kids at a Young Age, Study Says

There are almost no differences between young trans kids and young cis kids when it comes to the strength of their gender identity, new US research shows. The findings from the largest-ever study of socially transitioned trans kidsshow that gender identity and gender-related preferences manifest similarly in both cis and trans kids. This finding, from researchers at the University of Washington, was true even for trans kids who have only recently come out and socially transitioned (changed their name, pronouns and gender presentation in terms of clothes and hair). The researchers found that children who identify with the gender that they […]

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A Very LGBTQ Decade: Marriage Equality, Trans Rights and a ‘Rainbow Wave’

At the dawn of the year 2010, few Americans could predict that the coming decade would revolutionize the legal and cultural landscape for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. After all, it was only in 2003 that homosexuality was decriminalized across the country, thanks to a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Over the past 10 years, the United States saw the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, the emergence of transgender rights as the central frontier in the LGBTQ rights battle and the introduction of PrEP to fight the HIV epidemic. The decade also saw tragedies and setbacks, like the Pulse […]

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Canada’s Government Asked Citizens whether They’re ‘Comfortable’ with LGBT People

Canada’s federal government posed a rather simple question to its residents: are they comfortable with LGBT+ people? In a preliminary assessment to better understand the challenges faced by the country’s queer community, a wing of the government surveyed Canadians and found an overwhelming amount are, indeed, comfortable. Phew. ‘We obviously have more work to do’, LGBT+ activists say.  The survey, conducted in the summertime, asked Canadian citizens whether they would be comfortable if their neighbour, manager or doctor was LGBT+, Global News reported. Around 91.8 per cent said that would be comfortable if a next-door neighbour were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and […]

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Facebook Removes Some Misleading PrEP Ads

The Washington Post reports: Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention medication, responding to a deluge of activists, health experts and government regulators who said the tech giant had created the conditions for a public-health crisis. The ads at issue — purchased by pages affiliated with personal-injury lawyers and seen millions of times — linked drugs designed to stop the spread of HIV with severe bone and kidney damage. LGBT advocates long have said such claims are “false,” pointing to multiple studies showing the class of medication, known as PrEP, is safe. GLAAD reacts via press release: “It’s […]

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Study Finds Anti-gay Teasing is the most Common ‘Violent Behavior’ among Teenage Boys

Homophobic teasing is the most common “violent behaviour” among teenage boys, a new study has found. The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, looked at whether attitudes towards gender equality affected violence in teenage boys. It surveyed 866 teenage boys in community settings like after school programmes and libraries, covering 20 lower-resource neighbourhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. According to researchers it is the first study to ask teenage boys about violence and attitudes to gender in “US urban, community-based settings”, rather than schools or clinics. Researchers found that when male high school students supported equality between genders, they were […]

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A Study of the World’s most Dangerous Countries for LGBTQ+ Travel

Instead of relying on hearsay and anecdotes from other travelers, we took a deep look at LGBTQ+ rights, country by country. We’ve gathered data from a variety of trusted international sources to create a “LGBTQ+ Danger Index” that will help you find the worst (and safest) countries for LGBTQ+ travel. At the end of the article we also have 37 LGBTQ+ travel safety tips shared by four travel experts.Correction 11/20/19: Sweden has now moved to #1 and Canada has now moved to the #2 spot. We were alerted to the fact that Sweden does have hate crime protections and Canada does have constitutional protections which […]

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Trump’s New Legal Adviser Is an Anti-LGBT Bomb Thrower

If you don’t know who Jenna Ellis is, you are hardly alone. Many officials at the upper echelons of Trumpworld don’t really know her, either. In more than a dozen conversations with senior figures in the White House, 2020 campaign, and broader Trump orbit, barely anybody had known Ellis as more than a blip on the Fox News radar—if that—before this October. “She literally came out of nowhere,” said one person close to President Donald Trump. And yet, Ellis, a constitutional law attorney who’d worked since last year as the public policy director at the James Dobson Family Institute, has quickly gone […]

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International Teachers in Indonesia Given ‘Psychological Exams’ to Uncover Sexual Orientation

International teachers in some Indonesian schools are being subjected to intrusive ‘psychological exams’ aimed at uncovering their sexual orientation and attitude towards LGBT+ rights. Questions seen by the New York Times include “Agree or disagree: ‘I would feel uncomfortable knowing my daughter’s or son’s teacher was homosexual,’” and “True or false: ‘The gender composition of an orgy would be irrelevant to my decision to participate.’” Some questions were reserved specifically for men, such as: “I wouldn’t want to die without having experimented sexually with both men and women,” and “I can be sexually attracted to anyone in the right circumstances.” Homosexuality is […]

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Interior Dept Cuts “Sexual Orientation” From Guidelines

The Huffington Post reports: President Donald Trump’s Interior Department removed “sexual orientation” from a statement in the agency’s ethics guide regarding workplace discrimination. “You shall adhere to all laws and regulations that provide equal opportunities for all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, or handicap,” reads one of 14 principles of ethical behavior in the agency’s 2017 guidelines. The 2009 version President Barack Obama’s Interior Department issued included the categories “race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.” The above-linked report notes that current Interior Sec. David Bernhardt literally red-lined the phrase out of a letter sent on his […]

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