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U.S. Embassy in Vatican to Fly Pride Flag In June
The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See will be flying the Pride flag through the month of June this year. “The United States respects the dignity and equality of LGBTQI+ people. LGBTQI+ rights are human rights.” The tweet from the United States embassy in the Vatican on...
Transgender Troops Called to Serve
In July 2017, former President Trump casually ordered a ban on allowing transgender troops to transition while serving in the American armed forces via his Twitter account. A panel in the Defense Department drew up official regulations, and the ban fought through the...
European Parliament Declares Europe an LGBTIQ “Freedom Zone”
On Wednesday, March 10, members of the European Parliament sat to debate a motion that would see all of the European Union officially declared a “freedom zone” for LGBT people. The EU already protects LGBT rights with regards to discrimination in employment and...
LGBTQIA+
New Navy Guidance Protects Trans Rights
The U.S. Navy has issued new guidance regarding LGBT service members, including bathroom rights and new protections against harassment and misgendering. In a move that takes a branch of the armed forces significantly further forward in social progress than many U.S....
Gavin Grimm’s Bathroom Case Finally Over
A Virginia school board has lost a six-year fight to keep trans kids out of school bathrooms, in Monday's Supreme Court rejection of their appeal versus Gavin Grimm. Gavin Grimm was 15 and a sophomore at Gloucester High School when school officials banned him from...
Discrimination in Adoption Backed By Supreme Court
Discrimination in adoption cannot bar an organization from contracting with the city for adoption and foster care, ruled the U.S. Supreme Court on June 17. A Roman Catholic adoption agency has been involved in a lawsuit with the city of Philadelphia for well over a...
Womxn’s Rights
Reparations On the Table for California Victims
Reparations are in the works for California's surviving victims of eugenics. Up to $25,000 each for approximately 600 of the thousands of people sterilized in state hospitals and prisons, some of them only children. It would be nice to report that these reparations...
Sudan Outlaws Female Genital Mutilation
“We [will] drop all the laws violating the human rights in Sudan.” The quote by Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari reflects a nearly jaw-dropping truth. Sudan has, in just a week, put into effect a battery of new laws protecting their vulnerable citizens and...
Study Shows the Impact of the #MeToo Movement
When the #MeToo movement first began to take off in October 2017, a lot of people dismissed it as a short-term trend. But a little over a year later, and conversations surrounding sexual harassment have shown no signs of slowing down. In fact, they’ve only...
Civil & Human Rights
New Navy Guidance Protects Trans Rights
The U.S. Navy has issued new guidance regarding LGBT service members, including bathroom rights and new protections against harassment and misgendering. In a move that takes a branch of the armed forces significantly further forward in social progress than many U.S....
Reparations On the Table for California Victims
Reparations are in the works for California's surviving victims of eugenics. Up to $25,000 each for approximately 600 of the thousands of people sterilized in state hospitals and prisons, some of them only children. It would be nice to report that these reparations...
Gavin Grimm’s Bathroom Case Finally Over
A Virginia school board has lost a six-year fight to keep trans kids out of school bathrooms, in Monday's Supreme Court rejection of their appeal versus Gavin Grimm. Gavin Grimm was 15 and a sophomore at Gloucester High School when school officials banned him from...
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New Navy Guidance Protects Trans Rights
The U.S. Navy has issued new guidance regarding LGBT service members, including bathroom rights and new protections against harassment and misgendering. In a move that takes a branch of the armed forces significantly further forward in social progress than many U.S....
Reparations On the Table for California Victims
Reparations are in the works for California's surviving victims of eugenics. Up to $25,000 each for approximately 600 of the thousands of people sterilized in state hospitals and prisons, some of them only children. It would be nice to report that these reparations...
Gavin Grimm’s Bathroom Case Finally Over
A Virginia school board has lost a six-year fight to keep trans kids out of school bathrooms, in Monday's Supreme Court rejection of their appeal versus Gavin Grimm. Gavin Grimm was 15 and a sophomore at Gloucester High School when school officials banned him from...