by Beth Holmes | Oct 20, 2021 | Education, LGBTQIA+, Queer Community, Resources & Info, Sexuality
Acephobia reared its head again this past National Coming Out Day, as it does every year. So let’s talk. Asexual people are people who don’t experience sexual attraction, or libido, or both. Under that umbrella are gray-asexual people, who experience...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 5, 2021 | Civil Rights, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion
So-called LGBT-Free zones were repealed by vote in four major regions of Poland this week, but don’t get too excited. In 2019, over 100 Polish regions passed anti-LGBT resolutions, many of them going so far as to declare themselves LGBT-Free zones. Most of the...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 13, 2021 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Resources & Info
LGBT households report higher rates of food scarcity and poverty than non-LGBT households, finds a Census Bureau survey. And no one should be surprised. In the last two weeks of July 2021, the United States Census Bureau conducted a Household Pulse Survey, which...
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 25, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Human Rights, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Politics, Queer Community, Religion
Discrimination in adoption cannot bar an organization from contracting with the city for adoption and foster care, ruled the U.S. Supreme Court on June 17. A Roman Catholic adoption agency has been involved in a lawsuit with the city of Philadelphia for well over a...
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...
