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Tech Entrepreneur Seeks to Become Indiana’s First Out Governor

Pete Buttigieg isn’t the out gay person from Indiana with high political ambitions. Josh Owens, a tech entrepreneur who leads one of Indiana’s fastest growing companies where employees earn a minimum of $50,000, has a launched a bid to become his state’s first openly gay governor. His campaign website is here. A Democrat who’s CEO of SupplyKick — which aims to build company selling brands on Amazon — Owens filed paperwork for Indians’s 2020 gubernatorial race on Monday. “I’m running for governor now because I believe in an Indiana where teachers are paid what they deserve and where all are welcomed, respected and […]

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LGBT+ Self-defence Workshops Gaining Popularity as Hate Crimes Continue to Rise

Organisers of self-defence classes for LGBT+ people say they have noticed a “substantial increase in demand” as the rate of hate crimes continues to rise. Martial arts like Krav Maga and jiu-jitsu are reportedly being tailored to members of the LGBT+ community, who face a heightened risk of physical attacks in street settings. Some workshops, such as Shaan Saar in Orlando, Florida, were established as a direct response to attacks against the LGBT+ community. The group was founded after the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse gay nightclubwhich killed 49 people. Its instructors teach Krav Maga, a self-defence technique used by the Israeli Defence Forces. “Krav […]

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Sexual Abuse Against Gay and Bi Men Brings Unique Stigma and Harm

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As trauma psychologists, we’re leading a team to help alleviate psychiatric distress in gay, bi and trans males who have been sexually abused or assaulted. In collaboration with two nonprofit organisations, MaleSurvivor and Men Healing, we recruited and trained 20 men who have experienced sexual abuse to deliver evidence-based online mental health interventions for sexual and gender minority males – an umbrella term for individuals whose sexual identity, orientation or practices differ from the majority of society. This study should help men in this group who have been sexually assaulted know that they are not alone, that they are not to blame for their abuse, and that […]

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SB 132 to Ensure Dignity and Respect for Incarcerated Trans Folks

The sponsors of Sen. Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) SB 132 — a coalition of civil rights and legal organizations including Transgender Law Center, TransLatin@ Coalition, ACLU of California, Equality California, Lambda Legal, and Medina Orthwein LLP — released the following joint statement on Friday announcing that SB 132 — the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act — will become a two-year bill as the coalition continues to conduct outreach to gain additional input from incarcerated transgender people and consider potential amendments: “Every person deserves basic human dignity, agency, and respect. That continues to be the guiding principle behind our work […]

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Women Occupy Most Same-sex Households, Except in Cities

Female couples make up more than half of all same-sex households in the United States, but male couples dominate in cities with large gay populations. The U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday that the U.S. had almost 1 million same-sex households in 2017 (about 0.8 percent of all U.S. households), with female couples making up almost 52 percent of those households. The findings emerged in the bureau’s American Community Survey. Related NBC OUT ‘Bachelor’ franchise gets its first same-sex proposal Male couples dominated in cities with the largest gay populations, but the rate varied depending on the city. In San Francisco […]

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Mormon Church Doubles Down on Opposition to Same-sex Marriage

The Mormon church has doubled down on its stance that marriage is “between a man and a woman”, despite adjusting one of its anti-LGBT+ policies. President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russell M Nelson, addressed students at Mormon institution Brigham Young University (BYU) on Tuesday, September 17, to tell them about “five truths”. n 2015, the church announced that children of LGBT+ parents would be banned from baptisms and from joining the church, unless they “disavowed” their parents’ relationships. Less that two weeks later, more than a thousand members had quit the church.  This year, the church revoked this policy and said […]

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Indian State Bans Unnecessary Surgery on Intersex Children

India’s Tamil Nadu state government has issued an executive order banning medically unnecessary surgeries on children born with intersex variations. “Intersex,” sometimes called “differences of sex development” in medical literature, refers to the estimated 1.7 percent of people born with sex characteristics – such as chromosomes, gonads, or genitals – that differ from social expectations of female or male. Except in very rare cases when the child cannot urinate or internal organs are exposed, these variations are medically benign natural variations of human anatomy, and do not require surgery. But in the 1960s, surgeons in the United States popularized “normalizing” cosmetic operations on intersex children, such […]

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US News Networks Have Stopped Talking about LGBT Issues during Trump

An analysis of a decade’s worth of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News coverage by The GDELT Project shows the flatlining focus on LGBT+ issues on all three networks coinciding with the 2016 election, when Trump began to dominate the news agenda. The analysis, drawing on transcripts from the Television News Archive, looked at the frequency with which terms like gay, lesbian, transgender, LGBT and queer are mentioned. The analysts wrote: “Starkly apparent is that mentions have almost disappeared across all three stations since November 2016.” According to PinkNews‘ analysis of the data set, between July 2009 and July 2016 – when Donald Trump […]

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Transgender Woman Attacked in Portland in What May be Hate Crime

Three people, including a transgender woman, were attacked in Portland, Oregon, in what police say may be a bias crime. The assault happened in a downtown parking lot around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, and the assailants had fled by the time officers arrived, Portland police said in a statement. Atlas Marshall, who said she was attacked near some food carts, believes she was targeted because she is transgender, NBC affiliate KGW of Portland reported.  “He saw me, visibly could tell I was trans, I was queer, and he started throwing homophobic and transphobic slurs at me,” Marshall told the station. She said that […]

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Amidst Violence, Hondurans March for Pride

The LGBT Pride March in Honduras’s San Pedro Sula, which drew 450 people, was the uplifting culmination of a week of Pride activities that also included more sober reflections, such as a candlelight vigil for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people killed in Honduras. LGBT activists led the August 24 march with a banner that read, “Honduras inhabitable LGBTI,” meaning “Honduras unlivable [for] LGBTI.” Despite the activists’ courage and pride, which I also observed at Tegucigalpa’s march on the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in May, violence against LGBT people does make Honduras unlivable for many. In a country where many […]

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