Donald Trump is managing to stack the federal courts with anti-LGBT nominees, according to a new analysis by Lambda Legal. Nearly one-third of Trump’s judicial nominees have anti-LGBT records, says the Lambda report, released Wednesday. It came before Trump’s announcement of 10 new nominees, but it said that out of the 59 previous… Read the full article HERE.
Millions of people around the world will vote in elections this year, from presidential races in Egypt and Russia to state legislatures in the U.S.—some that could change how we’re governed for decades to come. But with dozens of elections in 2018, it’s difficult to tell which ones you… Read the full article HERE.
Discrimination, homophobia and Russia’s crusade against “non-traditional sexual relationships” have helped fuel a worrying rise in hostility towards LGBTI human rights groups in parts of the former Soviet Union said Amnesty International, in a new report today. ‘Less equal: LGBTI human rights defenders in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan’ explores the… Read the full article HERE.
The Bay Area Reporter has been sold to a gay man who has helmed the legacy LGBTQ publication in various capacities for more than 20 years. The newspaper., which marked its 47th year in 2017, is one of the nation’s leading LGBT newspapers and is a member of the National LGBT Media Association… Read the full article HERE.
Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadryov, who ordered Chechnya’s anti-gay purge, has been added to the Magnitsky List, which seeks to punish suspected human rights abusers. Under the Magnitsky Act, those on this list are barred from entering the country and any assets they hold in U.S. banks are frozen. Read the full article HERE.
The Movement Advancement Project (MAP), an LGBTQ advocacy organization, estimates this week that the combined revenues of 39 major U.S. LGBTQ nonprofits jumped 11% in fiscal 2016, compared to the year before–and that was all before Trump took office. We won’t know until the numbers are crunched toward the end of 2018 how the first year… Read the full article HERE.
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