House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday she’s “optimistic” about the Equality Act and called its passage a “priority” amid expectations the House could vote on the yet-to-be-introduced measure as early as March. Pelosi made the comments during her weekly…
A military chaplain is under investigation after posting a Facebook comment calling transgender people “mentally unfit” and “unqualified to serve” in the armed forces. Maj. Andrew Calvert, chaplain for the 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade at Fort Hood, Texas, made…
US student found naked at the bottom of a cliffside in Australia, in the latest speed bump to a 32-years-long search for justice. Scott White, 49, allegedly killed Johnson in 1988. New South Wales law enforcement stormed his Sydney apartment and arrested…
A firefighter in San Francisco is suing the city, saying that he faced decades of anti-gay and racist discrimination at work that the city did little to rectify. Keith Baraka has worked for the San Francisco Fire Department since 1997 and…
I was seven when I watched my uncle dying in St Lukes-Roosevelt hospital in New York City. Simon was only 36 and it was the 90s. I remember asking someone what a lump on his neck was. It was just his…
A gay couple were flogged in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province Thursday (Jan 28), justice officials said, in a public spectacle lambasted by human rights groups. The two men were whipped nearly 80 times each for having gay sex, which is outlawed in…
Five days into his administration, President Biden already signed two executive orders to benefit the LGBTQ community, demonstrating an aggressive approach to LGBTQ issues not seen even during the Obama years. he Biden team — under internal and external pressure to…
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