by Beth Holmes | May 16, 2022 | Featured, Gay and Lesbian, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Profiles, Queer Community
Karine Jean-Pierre sets two firsts as the new White House Press Secretary, as an out black lesbian. Karine Jean-Pierre, 44, carries an impressive resume as a political analyst and commentator. She was an adviser and spokeswoman for MoveOn.org, one of the most...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 18, 2022 | Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Health, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Science, Sexuality
Fertility coverage should be applied equally, according to a discrimination complaint against NYC by a Brooklyn couple. Corey Briskin was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan when he and his husband Nicholas Maggipinto decided it was time to have a child, in...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 14, 2022 | Education, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Homophobia, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Sexuality, Transgender
“Don’t Say Gay” bill has passed the state legislature in Florida, despite waves of student walkouts protesting the proposed law. The “Don’t Say Gay” bill about sexual orientation and gender identity before third grade, with language vague enough that it...
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 | 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...
