The vice chair of the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents announced Thursday, December 21, he would resign after an uproar over a comment on public affairs television that appeared to liken gay people to pedophiles. Following a two-hour closed-door meeting of the board… Read the full article HERE.
Instagram and Facebook suspended the anti-gay leader of Chechnya’s social media accounts. Ramzan Kadyrov woke up to find his accounts had ‘disappeared overnight’ last night (22 December). It comes about after the US slapped sanctions on the anti-gay leader for human rights violations. Read the full article HERE.
As many Americans think about what they will receive this Christmas, some lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors are wondering what they may lose in the new year. A number of them even wonder if they’ll still have homes. More than 100 LGBTQ elders gathered for a holiday party on Thursday at the Union Community Health Center… Read the full article HERE.
Egypt has announced a bid to ban atheism in the hopes that it will stop people from “turning” gay. The parliamentary commission on religion has said that plans to make “promotion of atheism” illegal will be pushed. It comes as the commission ruled that atheism can cause “mental imbalances” which in turn leads to homosexuality. Read the full article HERE.
Almost seven years after a video of Zach Wahls defending his lesbian mothers went viral, the LGBT activist has announced his plans to run in the 2018 election for Iowa Senate. Addressing the Iowa House Judiciary Committee during a 2011 public hearing on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Iowa, Wahls, then a 19-year-old University…Read the full article HERE.
A 99-year-old gay man who was persecuted by the Nazi regime for being gay has died without receiving compensation. Wolfgang Lauinger passed away on Tuesday night after a lifetime of activism against the wrongdoings in Germany against the LGBTQ+ community. Read the full article HERE.
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