The Toronto Raptors will make history on Wednesday when they become the first team in the NBA to host a night in support of its LGBTQ fans when they host the Detroit Pistons. The team partnered with the organization dedicated to ensuring respect, safety and equality for all people in sports, including LGBTQ athletes, coaches and fans…
In spite of many advances made, LGBT individuals continue to face discrimination in many sectors of modern life, and that includes the worlds of finance and housing. LGBT youth continue to make up an abnormally high percentage of the United States’ homeless population, and local housing assistance services don’t always have…
In a proclamation released this morning, Donald Trump declared January 16, 2018 “Religious Freedom Day” to commemorate the 232nd anniversary of the Virginia General Assembly passing the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, the first statute of its kind. However, the seemingly innocuous proclamation, which claims to celebrate “Americans from diverse ethnic and…
From state-level bans on municipalities passing LGBT protections to bills that allow for anti-LGBT discrimination in child services, this homophobia could soon be enshrined in law. 2015 was the year of Indiana’s anti-LGBT “religious freedom” law. 2016 was the year of North Carolina’s ill-fated “bathroom bill.”…
Soap opera star and Calvin Klein underwear model Antonio Sabato Jr., a candidate for Congress in California, is under fire for participating in a movie role that shows him simulating sex with a man and for appearing nude — both of which, critics and rivals say, disqualify him from representing the Republican Party…
Who should the UK discuss it’s common future with? If it was down to you, would you choose the leaders of 36 countries which criminalize homosexuality? That’s what will be happening in April when London and Windsor host the 52 Commonwealth countries for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018…
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