Austrian authorities have announced they thwarted an attack on an LGBTQ+ Pride event in Vienna. A swift police response prevented untoward incidents during the event, attracting more than 300,000 people. Read on »
The news on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights around the world has not been promising. Governments in Poland and Hungary use it as a wedge issue, to shore up their political fortunes, while undermining democratic norms and the rule of law. Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Patriarch Kirill of the Orthodox Church used “traditional values” as partial justification for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, while the Duma extended the “gay propaganda” law to all age groups. Read on »
The Australian judge overseeing an inquiry examining the 30-year-old unsolved murder of former AC/DC manager Crispin Dye slammed New South Wales Police yesterday after the revelation of explosive evidence in the case. The inquest, which was opened last November, is examining the 88 unsolved deaths of gay men in Sydney and NSW between 1979 and 2000. Read on »
Fox News is being accused of altering the content of Associated Press and Reuters stories that the network republished on its website to enflame further tensions among those opposed to transgender people and their access to medical care. Read on »
At the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1944, Missouri Sen. Harry Truman was nominated to be President Franklin Roosevelt’s running mate as Roosevelt sought an unprecedented third term. Truman’s selection was one of the great comeback stories in political history. Many were aghast that it was the relatively inexperienced Truman, because many realized that Roosevelt wouldn’t survive a third term if he were reelected. The consensus on Truman was that he was clearly not ready to be president. Read on »
A groundbreaking Boston gay activist is being recognized with a National Park Service tour of his neighborhood. Read on »
Several Democratic Congress members have filed a bill to support LGBTQ+ and women’s history in education. Read on »
In high school, Michele Kirichanskaya took a trip down a Google rabbit hole that led her to a word that perfectly summed up what she’d been feeling: asexuality. Read on »
Marriage equality pioneer Edie Windsor and her wife, Thea Spyer, have been honored by having an intersection in New York’s Greenwich Village named for them. Read on »
Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York, has revealed his bail backers ahead of an order that went into effect at noon on Thursday demanding the names of the guarantors be released. Read on »
Out writer, producer, and director Ryan Murphy is bidding farewell to Netflix after his five-year contract with the streaming giant comes to an end. He has reportedly found a new home at Disney. Read on »
Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk, who had previously declared himself a “free speech absolutist,” has now declared that the words “cis” and “cisgender” are slurs. He said that using the term in a “repeated, targeted" way could result in sanctions against accounts. Read on »
Authorities in New York City are looking for a suspect after a man was beaten and screamed at in what police say was an antigay hate crime. Read on »
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on LGBTQ+ rights Wednesday, "Protecting Pride: Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans," featured some dangerous misinformation about transgender people — although there were other witnesses to counter it. Read on »
Valeria Sanzari, the prosecutor for the city of Padua in northern Italy, is trying to cancel the birth certificates of 33 children born to lesbian couples, claiming the documents are illegal because they list the name of a non-biological parent. Read on »
Tennessee prosecutors have indicted a man over online threats he allegedly made targeting Nashville Pride with violence. Read on »
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