Indonesian police have detained 58 men including several foreigners in a raid on a gay sauna, an official said Saturday (Oct 7), the latest sign of a backlash against homosexuals in the Muslim-majority country. Police late Friday raided a building in the capital Jakarta that houses a sauna and a gym after they received information from the public that it was being used for prostitution.
The United Nations recently took a vote to condemn the death penalty being used against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people. Pretty straightforward and common sense to vote yes on that, right? Not for Nikki Haley. She voted no, refusing to condemn the practice, and joining a meager 13 countries, including China, Iraq, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
A Tennessee state senator who withdrew from consideration as President Trump’s Army Secretary over his controversial comments on the LGBTQ community, Muslims, and others has announced he is running for Congress.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping memo Friday on religious freedom that instructs agencies to do as much as they can to protect the religious liberty of individuals and employers at the expense of civil rights.
A lawsuit over restrictions on talk about homosexuality in Utah classrooms has been settled after lawmakers changed the law in a case that sets the stage for challenges to similar measures in other states, LGBT-rights groups said Friday.
Thomas Kennard is among the handful of transgender singers in the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus — and proud to be one of its lowest basses. “People say, ‘I thought you would be a tenor,’” Kennard says, demonstrating the guttural depths of his range.
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