On Sunday, Major League Baseball celebrated LGBTQ Pride by sponsoring a float in the New York march that included former player Billy Bean and umpire Dale Scott, both openly gay. MLB’s Twitter feed sent out the news to its 8.39 million followers.
Liberal versus bigot, urban versus rural, the coastal elites versus the flown-over: America today is a place of tribal dichotomies. Trump, we are told, has goaded even moderate Americans into taking sides and spitting feathers. Americans across the divide, we hear, are unable to engage in civil conversation.
As hundreds of thousands of LGBT Americans and their allies are taking to the streets to celebrate during Pride month, a case out of Texas highlights the employment discrimination hurdles the community still needs to clear. Stacy Bailey is a former teacher at Charlotte Anderson Elementary School in Arlington, Texas.
New York police thought it would be just another routine raid of a gay bar. But tonight, Friday night, June 27, 1969, was different. The young black and Latino kids and drag queens who frequented the Stonewall Inn were in no mood for it. “I was in the back of the bar near the dance floor, where the younger people usually hung out,”…
After years of fines, criticism, and pleas from both players and soccer officials, fans of Mexico’s national team finally did what so many had asked them to do: They refrained from their infamous anti-gay chant. It was so simple, and so glorious. They still partied. They still bounced up and down in Rostov-on-Don, celebrating Saturday’s 2-1 World Cup victory over South Korea.
The Czech government on Friday backed draft legislation that would make the country the first post-communist member of the European Union to legalise same-sex marriage. The legislation was drawn up by a group of 46 mostly leftist and centrist members of parliament from six of the nine parties in the lower house, including…
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