In the 1990s, the United States was among the first countries to start granting sanctuary to LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers fleeing persecution stemming from their sexual orientation or gender identity in their home countries. Now the Trump administration, intent on turning back the clock on almost every major facet of immigration policy, is increasingly complicit in their mistreatment.
Mary Walsh and Bev Nance claim Missouri’s Friendship Village said their marriage went against its “cohabitation policy.” Two Missouri women claim they were denied housing in a senior community because they are a lesbian couple. Mary Walsh and Bev Nance of Shrewsbury, Missouri, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Friendship Village…
“It doesn’t affect my ability to play football. It doesn’t affect my ability to serve my country.” Bradley Kim isn’t coming out to the world as gay for himself. As the Air Force football player has privately shared his true self with his teammates and coaches over the last year…
The idea that gay people can be ‘cured’ is nonsense, but boy is it persistent nonsense. Despite the best efforts of experts, campaigners and lawmakers, faith-based groups that believe it’s possible to ‘convert’ gay people into heterosexuals continue to operate on the fringes of society.
A group of 40 U.S. senators have signed a letter opposing the Aderholt Amendment, an amendment to a government funding bill that would allow child welfare agencies to discriminated against same-sex couples and others. The amendment was added onto the House of Representatives’ version of a funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and…
It was a controversial yet common refrain about suicide, Mormons and LGBT people in Utah, this time from daytime TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. “The leading cause of death for Utah kids, ages 11-17, is suicide,” she said during an episode that aired last month. “Suicide in Utah has increased 141 percent because of the shame they feel from the Mormon Church.”
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