by Beth Holmes | Mar 21, 2022 | Civil Rights, Gender, Homophobia, Human Rights, Intersex, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion, Transgender
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt is being sued over birth certificates, in a case crucial to trans and non-binary Oklahomans. In November 2021, Oklahoma Governor Stitt issued an executive order to direct the state to cease issuing birth certificates with a nonbinary...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 7, 2022 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Religion, Sexuality, Transgender, Women's Rights
LGBT Ukrainians fight for a country that disdains them, because Russia is certainly worse. Ukraine decriminalized same-sex sexual activity in the 1990s and allows trans people over 25 to legally change their gender, allows LGBT people to serve in the military and...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Sexuality, Transgender
Conversion practices are to be banned in New Zealand, after the third and final reading of a bill first proposed in 2018. The bill, which passed with 112 votes for, and 8 against, will still need to be signed off by New Zealand’s Governor-General for Royal...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 7, 2022 | Civil Rights, Human Rights, International, News, Politics, Racism, Religion
An Uyghur man has been sentenced to death in China for printing textbooks featuring scenes of Uyghur history. Sattar Sawut is a Uyghur official in the Xinjiang Education Department. The textbooks in question were published in 2009. At the time, none of their content...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 31, 2022 | Gay and Lesbian, Health, Homophobia, Human Rights, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Science
Epidemic disease is an undeniable part of queer history, and many LGBT people feel that the AIDS epidemic has prepared them, at least a little, for the current pandemic. The first case of HIV/AIDS in the United States was found in 1981, but it took until 1985 for AIDS...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 17, 2022 | Civil Rights, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion
A Polish court has upheld the acquittal of three women accused of “offending religious beliefs” over LGBT posters. In Poland’s penal code, Article 196 states that “publicly outraging an object or place of religious worship” in such a way that it “offends” anyone...