by Beth Huffington | 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 Huffington | 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 Huffington | 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...
by Beth Huffington | Jun 4, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Queer Community, Religion, Transgender
The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See will be flying the Pride flag through the month of June this year. “The United States respects the dignity and equality of LGBTQI+ people. LGBTQI+ rights are human rights.” The tweet from the United States embassy in the Vatican on...
by Beth Huffington | May 21, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, Power LGBT, Queer Community
The “Safe To Be Me” event in June 2022 will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first official London Pride march. It will be the first-ever global conference on LGBT rights held by the UK government. It will also probably be the largest ever such event,...
by Beth Huffington | May 10, 2021 | Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Resources & Info, Sexuality, Transgender
Matthew Verdun and his researchers at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology surveyed 175 gay and lesbian adults to investigate links between the support of their families and anxiety or depression. One of the major factors the study looked at was parental...
