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 28, 2022 | Bisexuality, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Power LGBT, Resources & Info, Science, Sexuality, Transgender
A Gallup poll published on Thursday shows that over 7% of adults in the United States identify as being under the LGBT+ umbrella, a new high. Gallup surveys of 12,416 adults in 2021 asked Americans to say if they identified as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual,...
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 | Feb 14, 2022 | Civil Rights, Education, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Politics, Power LGBT, Religion, Sexuality, Transgender
Religious schools in Australia may soon be stopped from punishing students for their sexuality or gender identity. Scott Morrison, the Australian Prime Minster, is fairly right-wing, so it came as a surprise when he promised last Thursday to stop faith-based schools...
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 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...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 24, 2022 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Power LGBT, Sexuality
LGBT veterans in the U.K. are given a chance to speak out in a review of the impact of the ban on LGBT military service, repealed in 2000. Until 2000, the British military banned LGBT service members. Out recruits were dismissed, and coming out after joining up could...
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 | Jan 10, 2022 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Politics, Power LGBT, Queer Community
Senegalese lawmakers are working on a law update that would double prison sentences for those found guilty of same-sex sexual activities. Gay sex is already a crime in Senegal, with a sentence of up to five years in prison. The country doesn’t recognize same-sex...
