by Beth Holmes | Sep 20, 2021 | Civil Rights, Homophobia, Human Rights, International
The March for Equality in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, is an annual event, held in the fall shortly after students return to school. It is an event to support the push for LGBT rights in the generally conservative county. Ukraine decriminalized same-sex sexual...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 30, 2021 | Civil Rights, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, News, Politics, Religion
Stonings have been approved by a Taliban judge for gay men in Afghanistan, making many fear for their lives. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, homosexuality was a capital crime, and there were hundreds of reports of executions of gay men–although...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 10, 2021 | Entertainment, Gay and Lesbian, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Power LGBT, Queer Community
Team LGBTQ took 32 medals in the Tokyo Olympics. If Team LGBTQ, an entirely unofficial denotation celebrating the nearly 170 publicly out gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, or otherwise queer athletes currently competing, was a country, they would rank...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 21, 2021 | Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Queer Community
Japan failed to pass a law protecting its LGBT citizens in their last chance before the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2019, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Japan campaigned hard for the queer vote, promising civil rights protections and bills promoting “correct...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 11, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Power LGBT
Fidesz, the political party of current Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, continues to march further right as the county prepares to vote on new legislation to ban any matter “promoting” homosexuality–under the guise of protecting children from pornography...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 4, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Queer Community, Religion, Transgender
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...
