As Donald Trump campaigned for the White House in 2016, polls showed 19–25 percent of Americans said they’d consider moving to Canada if he won. Surveys put that percentage even higher among LGBT voters. But perhaps LGBT Americans should have been looking to move to…
Donald Trump hasn’t recognized LGBT Pride Month, but new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has, even though he’s not exactly known as a friend to LGBT people. Pompeo, who had a long anti-LGBT record as a member of the U.S. House of representatives, released this statement Friday via the State Department’s website:
There is a level of social and systemic privilege not afforded to many members of the LGBTQ community in North America. Every time a month or week — or even a day — purporting to honor the achievements of a minority group starts, in storms some seldom-silent members of the majority with cries of “What about us?”
Ireland will wear a kit containing the rainbow flag colours of the LGBT movement in their international friendly with the United States this weekend. The FAI announced that the numbers of the back of the player’s shirts will be filled with the colours of the rainbow flag instead of the traditional white.
Kazuyo Katsuma, a high-profile businesswoman in Japan, surprised the nation on Monday when she announced her relationship with Hiroko Masuhara, a prominent LGBT activist. In 2005, Katsuma made it to the Wall Street Journal’s “The 50 Women to Watch” after winning “legions of fans among Japanese working mothers” through the management of an online forum.
An Anglican diocese in England is calling on clergy to invite LGBT people into roles of leadership in the church. In a letter titled “Welcoming and Honouring LGBT+ People,” the diocese of Lichfield in Staffordshire says the church must advance “radical Christian inclusion.”
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