by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | Bisexuality, Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gender, Homophobia, Human Rights, LGBTQIA+, Transgender
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow hung a pride flag from its building in the last week of June 2020, and that’s newsworthy. It’s newsworthy because flying the pride flag is barely legal in Russia. In 2013, President Putin signed a law called “for the Purpose of Protecting...
by admin | Jul 15, 2016 | Equality, News
While it may seem totally revolutionary, the Internet is doing what media has always done. Like the printing press before it, the Internet makes information easier to store, access, and own. It’s just an upgraded version of books and newspapers, really. But that idea...
by admin | Jun 14, 2016 | Civil Rights, Education, News, Transgender
For decades, schools and states have tried to wiggle around the language of Title IX, the statute of the Education Amendments of 1972 that protects students and staff from discrimination based on sex in education at institutions that receive Federal funding. On...
by admin | Feb 22, 2016 | Human Rights, International, LGBTQIA+
On February 4th, 2016, the United Nations released a set of six new stamps to promote UN Free & Equal, the ongoing UN push for LGBT equality. The stamps, featuring pictures of gay and lesbian couples, queer families, and a trans woman, are the first set on this...
by admin | Dec 12, 2015 | Equality, Human Rights, LGBTQIA+
Hazim Ismail came from Malaysia to Canada to attend the University of Winnipeg. He’s passionate about his psychology studies, and very much wants to complete his degree, like most students. But this student has more than the average obstacle course to...
