by Beth Holmes | Aug 25, 2021 | Human Rights, Politics, Resources & Info
Seattle homeless camps continue to be cleared, but few of their residents wind up in shelters. In January 2020, a one-night count tallied the Seattle homeless population at 11,751, with just over half of those staying in shelters and other housing options, and 47...
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 2, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Politics
New Zealand is the latest country to take a hard look at conversion therapy, with new legislation introduced to ban the practice. When Jacinda Ardern ran for her second term as New Zealand’s Prime Minister in 2020, ending conversion therapy for minors was one of...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 19, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gender, Human Rights, Politics, Transgender
The U.S. Navy has issued new guidance regarding LGBT service members, including bathroom rights and new protections against harassment and misgendering. In a move that takes a branch of the armed forces significantly further forward in social progress than many U.S....
by Beth Holmes | Jul 9, 2021 | Feminism, Health, Human Rights, Politics, Racism, Science, Women's Rights
Reparations are in the works for California’s surviving victims of eugenics. Up to $25,000 each for approximately 600 of the thousands of people sterilized in state hospitals and prisons, some of them only children. It would be nice to report that these...
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...
