I was seven when I watched my uncle dying in St Lukes-Roosevelt hospital in New York City. Simon was only 36 and it was the 90s. I remember asking someone what a lump on his neck was. It was just his…
A gay couple were flogged in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province Thursday (Jan 28), justice officials said, in a public spectacle lambasted by human rights groups. The two men were whipped nearly 80 times each for having gay sex, which is outlawed in…
Five days into his administration, President Biden already signed two executive orders to benefit the LGBTQ community, demonstrating an aggressive approach to LGBTQ issues not seen even during the Obama years. he Biden team — under internal and external pressure to…
Cloris Leachman, the multi-award-winning actress who died Wednesday at age 94, was both an icon and ally to LGBTQ+ people. She was beloved for her performances in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and other sitcoms, her dramatic turns in films such as…
Puerto Rico governor Pedro Pierluisi declared a statement of emergency in the US territory Sunday (24 January) amid a spate of targeted killings against trans people as well as cis women. Pierluisi, a member of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party sworn…
San Francisco has lifted its long-standing ban on bathhouses. The Golden City’s health department removed lingering rules from the early years of the AIDS epidemic that forbade private locked rooms and mandated surveillance of patrons in said establishments. These guidelines…
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (NDPA announced Monday the gay dating app Grindr would be fined 100 million Norwegian Kroenr (approximately $11.6 million) for illegally selling users’ personal private information to third party advertisers. The fine represents an estimated ten percent of…
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