by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News
A United States government report, backed by the Obama administration, says that the practice of “conversion therapy”—efforts to “convert” LGBT youth to heterosexuality—must stop. The therapy is dangerous and poses significant risk and harm to LGBT-identified youth...
by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News, Politics
This weekend Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a speech in support of gay rights in the 2016 presidential race, promising that she would end discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender people. The fact that this would now be a central pillar of Clinton’s...
by admin | Sep 25, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News, Politics
Religion and politics are inextricably tied together, especially in the Republican Party, which is in the beginning stages of the primary process that will determine who will be the GOP’s candidate in 2016. After the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision was made...
by admin | Aug 28, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+
President Barack Obama lectured Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta about his country’s rights record. Under Kenyan law, sexual activity between men is illegal and punishable with a maximum imprisonment of 14 years. Many Kenyan leaders had encouraged Obama not to discuss...
by admin | Aug 27, 2015 | LGBTQIA+
A suspect who identified as an Ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed a teenage girl, along with five other people, at a Jerusalem Gay Pride parade. Shira Banki, the 16-year-old girl assaulted by Yishai Schlissel, succumbed to her wounds on Sunday. Hadar Elboim, of the city’s...
