by admin | Mar 30, 2020 | Equality, Featured, International, Israel, LGBT, LGBTQ, News, Power LGBT
The Middle East is not an area known for progress in LGBT rights, but Israel is several steps ahead of its neighbors. The State of Israel inherited Great Britain’s Buggery Act of 1533, a mandate against same-sex sexual activity, when the country was formed in...
by admin | Mar 25, 2020 | Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, gay, LGBT, LGBT community, LGBTQ, LGBTQ Youth, Power LGBT
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 | Mar 10, 2020 | gay, LGBT, LGBTQ, News, Politics, Power LGBT
Aaron Schock was a Representative for Illinois’s 18th Congressional District from 2009 through 2015. Once, he was the youngest member of the U.S. Congress. Before that, he was the youngest member of the Illinois House of Representatives. Every election, he ran...
by admin | Apr 4, 2019 | Featured, LGBT
Americans typically associate the LGBT population with major cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, and New York. And there’s a reason for that. Statistically speaking, these cities do have some of the highest gay populations in the U.S. However, eye-opening new...
by admin | Oct 21, 2018 | Featured, LGBT
In 1989, the AIDS crisis was in full bloom. The government was finally addressing the epidemic with the creation of the National Commission on AIDS, but it remained a terrifying time to be gay. That year, the reported deaths due to AIDS reached 100,000 in the...
by admin | May 30, 2018 | Featured, LGBT
The Marvel comics have had LGBT characters for decades. Northstar was the first major character to come out, in 1992 (though his creator, John Byrne, said he was gay from his 1979 origin but he couldn’t even hint at it through the ’80s due to the...