by Beth Holmes | Apr 19, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender
Back in July 2020, voters in anti-LGBT Russia passed a measure to amend the country’s constitution to redefine marriage and parenthood as a union between a “biological” man and woman. The measure passed with nearly 80 percent of voters in support, after years of...
by admin | Aug 12, 2020 | Featured, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, Queer Community, Sexuality
“For gay men in China, desires for unity and familiar acceptance are unrealistic,” says Yang Yiliang, a Chinese artist in talking about one of his cut-paper pieces of art, a romantic portrait of two men titled “Paper Grooms.” He continues: “The paper is symbolic...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Bisexuality, Equality, Featured, Gay and Lesbian, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Sexuality, Transgender
According to the global list kept by European Pride Organizers Association, nearly 500 LGBT events have been canceled this June, ordinarily the month when the community takes to the streets to be seen. Parades, parties, marches, coffee-house open mics and book clubs,...
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 | Nov 9, 2018 | Featured, LGBT community, Queer Community
In a Facebook Live video posted on October 19, 2018, a man named Paul Dorr stole a number of LGBT-themed books from the Orange City Public Library and burned them in a barrel in front of the Prairie Winds Events Center in Orange City, Iowa. Shouting angrily...
