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 28, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gender, Health, Human Rights, Intersex, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Transgender
The federal judges of two states have now blocked laws that would have prevented trans youth from seeking gender-confirming treatments and playing sports. In Arkansas, U.S. District Judge Jay Moody temporarily blocked a new law that would have gone into effect July...
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 | Jul 2, 2021 | Civil Rights, Education, Gender, Human Rights, Power LGBT, Transgender
A Virginia school board has lost a six-year fight to keep trans kids out of school bathrooms, in Monday’s Supreme Court rejection of their appeal versus Gavin Grimm. Gavin Grimm was 15 and a sophomore at Gloucester High School when school officials banned him...
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...
by Beth Holmes | 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 Holmes | Jun 11, 2021 | Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Power LGBT
Fidesz, the political party of current Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, continues to march further right as the county prepares to vote on new legislation to ban any matter “promoting” homosexuality–under the guise of protecting children from pornography...
by Beth Holmes | 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 Holmes | May 29, 2021 | Business, Gay and Lesbian, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Power LGBT
Matthew Ashton, a designer for the Danish toy company Lego, originally made the rainbow set-piece and minifigs for his own desk. “I’d moved offices, so wanted to make the space feel like home with something that reflected me and the LGBTQIA+ community I’m...
