It is 18 years today since the controversial and homophobic legislation known as Section 28, introduced under Margaret Thatcher, was repealed in England and Wales. The clause – an amendment to the Local Government Act 1988 – banned local authorities and schools from promoting homosexuality…
Dallin Oaks, a Latter-day Saint apostle and the former president of Brigham Young University (BYU), denied that the college used the discredited electroshock “therapy” on gay students while he was president from 1971 to 1980 during a question and answer event at…
The International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday that their 17-year-old policy on transgender and non-binary participation will end effective March 2022, leaving individual sports to determine their own policies. The thrust of the previous policy, centered mainly around testosterone limits for trans…
The Spotsylvania County School Board voted 5-2 Monday evening to rescind their ban on “sexually explicit” books in the libraries of the district’s schools that the board enacted last week in a 6-0 vote. The vote to rescind was opposed by…
Same-sex married couples may get a tax break from Democrats’ $1.75 trillion social and climate spending plan. The latest iteration of the Build Back Better Act would let taxpayers who were legally married under state law before 2010 claim federal tax benefits…
Prosecutors in Seattle have indicted a suspect in connection with an arson fire that threatened the lives of patrons visiting an LGBTQ venue in February. The Charlotte Observer reports that 24-year-old Kalvinn Jay Garcia faces federal charges of arson in…
A new study confirms that when a country is more accepting of people who are LGBTQ, fewer gay or bisexual men take their own lives. In a new study, researchers compared life in a country where LGBTQ folks encounter strong…
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