by admin | Oct 2, 2018 | Featured, Politics
In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote a directive informing all diplomats assigned to the U.S. that same-sex domestic partners should be eligible to accompany diplomats as family members to the U.S. “The Chiefs of Mission are informed that, in...
by admin | Sep 28, 2018 | Featured, Power LGBT, Transgender
Audrey Tang may very well be the world’s only transgender cabinet minister. Appointed in 2016 to the Chinese Lin Chaun cabinet in Taiwan, she is a minister without portfolio—or a minister who does not have a particular office but maintains a right to vote...
by admin | Sep 23, 2018 | Featured, Transgender
A new study from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law backs up what LGBT activists and people with common sense have been saying all along: policies allowing trans people to use public facilities aligned with their gender identity have no...
by admin | Sep 10, 2018 | Featured, News
Section 377 was a law enacted at the height of the British occupation in India during the 1850s. It outlawed “sodomy,” along with all other forms of consensual same-sex activity. Those who were found guilty of violating the law could incur...
by admin | Sep 5, 2018 | Featured, News
Alireza is Iranian. Kiran is from India. Together, they have traveled thousands of miles in the name of love. In 2011, Alireza fled Iran out of fear for his own safety. At the time, his country was both carrying out and condoning the executions of men like him:...
by admin | Sep 1, 2018 | Featured, Transgender
In 2016, Wisconsin’s Group Insurance Board (which controls the insurance programs for all of Wisconsin’s state and public workers plus those who have retired) voted to allow the inclusion of transition expenses in their insurance coverage. In...
