by Beth Holmes | Nov 25, 2023 | Gay and Lesbian, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Power LGBT, Queer Community
Pulse Nightclub will be bought by the city, in a move to preserve the memory of the tragedy there. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer revealed on Wednesday that the city intends to acquire the Pulse Nightclub, the LGBTQ+ establishment where a tragic event occurred in June 2016,...
by Beth Holmes | Nov 23, 2023 | Gay and Lesbian, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Sexuality, Transgender
The Gay Games 2023 are opening on Saturday in Hong Kong, the event’s first time in Asia. The Gay Games were founded in 1982 by an Olympic athlete, a worldwide event to promote acceptance of LGBT+ athletes, artists, and performers. Intentionally similar to the...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 26, 2023 | Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, Politics, Power LGBT, Sexuality
An apology has been given by Rishi Sunak for the awful historical treatment of LGBT veterans in the British military. Until 2000, it was illegal to be gay in the British military. The justification at the time was “maintenance of operational effectiveness and...
by Beth Holmes | May 22, 2023 | Arts, Education, Entertainment, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion
A Disney movie with a gay character was shown in a fifth-grade classroom, and now the teacher is under investigation. “Strange World,” a Disney movie which came out last year, has a main character who is gay, a teenager with a crush on his best friend. It is entirely...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 3, 2023 | Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian, Health, Homophobia, Human Rights, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Politics, Power LGBT, Sexuality, Transgender
Kentucky governor Andy Beshear has vetoed a broad bill proposed by Republican lawmakers to regulate trans youth out of existence. The bill would have banned all gender-affirming health care for minors, including therapy, and would have forced trans students to use...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 20, 2023 | Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Religion, Sexuality, Transgender
Uganda has another anti-LGBT bill in the works, despite same-sex relations already being heavily illegal in the conservative East African nation. In 2014, Ugandan lawmakers, under the urging of a few American lobbyists, passed a bill that imposed life imprisonment as...
