by Beth Holmes | Aug 14, 2023 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gender, Health, Homophobia, Human Rights, Intersex, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Transgender
How many people are affected by the recent waves of GOP-led anti-LGBTQ+ legislation? The data is not usually part of their lawmaking. In the past three years at least 21 states have passed laws targeting gender-affirming care for transgender people, or making it...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 11, 2023 | Equality, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion, Sexuality, Transgender
Iraq has banned the term ‘homosexuality’ from use in media. They must call it ‘sexual deviance’ instead. The order is not yet official, but was released on Tuesday from Iraq’s official regulator of media, the Iraqi Communications and...
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 | Jul 10, 2023 | Civil Rights, Equality, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, Politics, Power LGBT
Japan passes an “LGBT understanding” bill, in an incremental step forward for the queer Japanese community. Japan is the only G7 nation with no legal protection for same-sex unions, except for local city-specific laws which offer limited rights to civil unions. They...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 21, 2023 | Civil Rights, Equality, Health, Human Rights, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender, Women's Rights
Washington and Minnesota have both established themselves as shield states for patients seeking reproductive or gender-affirming care, with simultaneous laws signed in April. Since the conservative Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, threatening literally...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 19, 2023 | Civil Rights, Equality, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, Politics, Power LGBT
Orden David is an LGBTQ activisit who has dedicated his life to fighting the anti-sodomy laws of Antigua and Barbuda, at personal risk. And he’s won. Orden David is an openly gay man who works in the government of Antigua and Barbuda, a heavily-Catholic island...
