For the fourth consecutive year, broadcast television has featured a record percentage of LGBTQ characters, according to a report released Thursday by the media advocacy group GLAAD. Last year, GLAAD called on the broadcast networks to have 10 percent of its regular characters on…
Magali Rodriguez said she didn’t kiss her girlfriend at school. At Bishop Amat Memorial High School, the biggest Catholic school in the Los Angeles area, it wasn’t against the rules to be gay — Rodriguez at one point checked the student handbook…
It was in December 2017, as anti-LGBTQ sentiment was peaking in Indonesia, when Acep Saepudin’s father decided something needed to be done about his son. He sought out a spiritual teacher in their town of Purwakarta in West Java Province and…
The United States is suing Gilead, the manufacturer of Truvada and Descovy, the two drugs approved for use in PrEP regimens. The news was announced late Thursday evening in a release. “Today, the United States, on behalf of [the Department of…
A Malaysian religious court sentenced five men on Thursday to jail, caning and fines for attempting gay sex, media and a rights group said. Sodomy and same-sex acts are illegal under Islamic law in Muslim-majority Malaysia, although convictions are rare…
The “rainbow wave” of the 2018 elections continued Tuesday, with 99 of 200 known LGBTQ candidates winning their races — including a number of successes in historically conservative states such as Virginia and Kentucky. The Victory Fund, a group that trains, supports and advocates for…
A man in Ames, Iowa, has been convicted of a hate crime for tearing down and burning a Pride flag that was hanging at a local church. A jury rendered the verdict on Adolfo Martinez Wednesday, in a trial that…
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