In the fall of 1998, a polite, unassuming gay student in Wyoming was pistol-whipped, tortured and bound to a wooden fence for 18 hours, his body crusted in blood and slumped in dirt. The savage assault and death of Matthew Shepard sent…
More than half the penguins at an Irish aquarium are in same-sex pairs, it has been revealed. Eight of the 14 residents of the Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium’s penguin enclosure have a gay or lesbian partner. In a bizarre coincidence, keepers at the…
It’s not illegal to be gay in the Indonesian city of Padang, but in the past six weeks as many as 18 LGBT couples have been apprehended for “psychological support and rehabilitation”. That was the term employed by the Civil Services Police…
Brunei’s tough new laws making gay sex punishable by death by stoning sparked a global outcry when they were rolled out last month. The tiny oil-rich nation in southeast Asia, ruled by Sultan Hassannal Bolkiah, was thrown into the international spotlight, as celebrities like…
The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether LGBT Americans are protected by federal anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. The conservative-leaning court will decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans sex discrimination, is broad enough to…
Donald Trump’s “religious freedom” commissioner Tony Perkins has blamed gay soldiers for a rise in sexual assault reports in the military. Perkins, who Trump appointed to sit on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, hit out at gay soldiers…
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