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,...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 13, 2021 | Homophobia, Religion, Transgender
Mark Robinson, the Republican lieutenant governor of North Carolina, is facing calls for his resignation after a series of bigoted and hateful comments he made about gay and transgender people at a speaking engagement in June. “There’s no reason anybody anywhere...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 5, 2021 | Civil Rights, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion
So-called LGBT-Free zones were repealed by vote in four major regions of Poland this week, but don’t get too excited. In 2019, over 100 Polish regions passed anti-LGBT resolutions, many of them going so far as to declare themselves LGBT-Free zones. Most of the...
by Beth Holmes | Sep 10, 2021 | Civil Rights, LGBT community, News, Power LGBT, Religion
Carl Bean, an icon of American LGBT history and acceptance and Motown music, has passed away 77 years after he was “Born This Way.” Bean was born in Baltimore in 1944, and raised by neighbors after his mother passed away. He was brought up in both the church and the...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 30, 2021 | Civil Rights, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, News, Politics, Religion
Stonings have been approved by a Taliban judge for gay men in Afghanistan, making many fear for their lives. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, homosexuality was a capital crime, and there were hundreds of reports of executions of gay men–although...
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...
