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 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...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 27, 2021 | Civil Rights, Education, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Religion
Jeff Green, who might be the richest man in Utah, donated $600,000 to an LGBTQ support group in Salt Lake City. Green, who was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, left the faith over a decade ago. But on Monday, he officially resigned from the...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 20, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion, Sexuality
Chile has just moved marriage equality forward by an overwhelming majority vote in Parliament, a landmark in the Catholic country. The LGBT community in Chile has been pushing for marriage rights for years as other countries around the world have taken up the cause....
by Beth Holmes | Dec 13, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Health, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Religion, Science, Sexuality, Transgender
Conversion therapy without full consent has been banned in Canada, after a unanimous vote in the House of Commons. So called ‘conversion therapy’ is a suite of practices meant to “cure” someone of same-sex attraction or gender nonconformity. Worldwide,...
by Beth Holmes | Nov 29, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, LGBT community, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion, Sexuality
Joshua Payne-Elliott, who teaches world languages and social studies, worked at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis from 2006 to 2019, under contract with the school. In 2017, he married his husband Layton, a teacher at another school in the same archdiocese,...
