Transgender news and opinion. Trans Athlete Chris Mosier Earned A Spot On Team USA For The Fifth Time
Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running mate, opposed gay marriage, ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and fighting workplace discrimination.
Apr 15, 2016 · There are so many homophobic bills pending in state legislatures right now it’s hard to keep up.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would have opened the door to discrimination of gays and lesbians. It was a swift and major victory for gay rights after a week of sustained pressure from corporations, lawmakers, the NFL, and even Major League Baseball, all of which urged Brewer to veto the bill.
Mike Farris hated the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision, and he loudly ridiculed Donald Trump’s run for president. But now he’s taken a big gay wedding cake case all the way to the Supreme Court, vying for a major victory in the fight against gay rights.
This bill would require every California public college teacher (via in-service training) to support, as stated in the bill language, “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning pupils.”
Updated April 16, 2018 Gay sex is no longer as widely criminalized as it used to be, but a total of 74 nations still have laws against it. The total number of nations with laws against same-sex intimacy fell to 74 on April 12, 2018, when Triniman’s High Court overturned that country’s sodomy law (pending […]
May 16, 2018 · Police in Chechnya, a region in southern Russia, are rounding up men believed to be gay, holding them in secret detention, and beating and humiliating them.
Some gay rights advocates have claimed that around 500,000 people in Uganda or 1.4 percent of its population are gay. The Ugandan government, however, has characterized the 500,000 people claim as an exaggeration designed to increase the popularity of homosexuality, and the British Broadcasting Company in 2009 asserted the …
By the count of organizations like the Human Rights Campaign, activists have fought more than 200 “anti-LGBT” bills so far in 2016
