by admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Civil Rights, Featured, News
On April 11th, Ralph Northam, the Democrat governor of Virginia, signed a bill into law which will expand protections for LGBTQ Virginians. Under the existing law, which stands until the new one takes effect on July 1st, 2020, it is legal to discriminate against...
by admin | Mar 25, 2020 | Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gay and Lesbian, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Power LGBT, Queer Community
In the fall of 2019, two teachers at John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien, Washington let their employer know that they’d each gotten engaged to their respective partners over the summer. Michelle Beattie, who taught health and coached soccer, and...
by admin | Oct 11, 2018 | Civil Rights, Featured
One of the driving forces behind the fight for marriage equality was the need for both same-sex parents to have rights to children of their unions, regardless of who was biologically related to who. Three years after Obergefell v. Hodges, many states still...
by admin | Aug 15, 2018 | Civil Rights, Featured
On August 7th, Maxim Neverov, a 16-year-old student from Biysk, Russia, was summoned to the police station, where he was arrested and charged with violating Russia’s “gay propaganda” law. Neverov is reportedly the first minor to be charged since the...
by admin | May 18, 2018 | Civil Rights, Featured
Texas is one of 31 states that does not ban anti-LGBT discrimination. In fact, the state’s lawmakers upheld their law against same-sex marriage right up until February 2015, four months before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled all same-sex-marriage bans to be...
by admin | Nov 3, 2017 | Civil Rights, Featured, Human Rights, News
Missouri is one of the majority of American states that lacks protections for LGBT citizens in employment or housing. Many people think that the fight for gay rights ended in 2015 with federal recognition of gay marriage. But all that means is that inviting...
