Like a lot of Brigham Young University students, Guy Berryessa met his future spouse while he was a student at BYU in Provo. The only thing was, at the time, he and his future husband didn’t know the other was gay. “It was a very lonely place in that sense that neither of us could ever tell our deepest secret,” Berryessa said. “Neither of us were asking about it.”
UK gay rights organization Stonewall has launched a nationwide campaign aimed at galvanizing LGBTQ allies in the fight against hate crimes and discrimination, as new research exposes shocking levels of abuse directed toward sexual and gender minorities in Britain.
After leading the Connecticut Sun to their first WNBA playoff berth since 2012, general manager and head coach Curt Miller was signed to a contract through 2021, according to the Connecticut Sun website. Miller is the first openly gay head coach in any professional sport and his efforts that he has brought in his two years in Connecticut are now being recognized.
Imagine seeing a monument to executed gay men and thinking literally anything other than, “how sad and poignant”. In September, the National Trust unveiled exactly such a memorial at one of their properties in Dorset. Kingston Lacy was once owned by William John Bankes, a man whose sexuality, in nineteenth century Britain, was a capital offence.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for a ban on transgender personnel in the military doesn’t make sense to Aaron Stewart, born Bethany, who is sharing his story so that other transgender individuals — in the military and otherwise — can be inspired by how he overcame adversity. “As long as you can perform your job, it’s nobody’s business.”
The first time Dani Pellett tackled the bathroom question was years before the issue of transgender access to restrooms would become a matter of political debate — and more than a decade before Pellett would enter the political realm herself.
A gay couple desperate to see same-sex marriage legalised have taken the extreme step of writing a letter to their neighbours asking them to vote ‘yes’. Tony Broderick and Rob Stott took the step of posting the letters into the mailboxes of everyone on their street in the beachside suburb of Bondi, in Sydney, this week.
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