LGBT News

New Hungary Law Enables Reporting LGBTQ Families

Bloomberg News reports: Hungarian lawmakers passed a bill that enables citizens to report anonymously on same-sex couples who raise children to authorities. As part of the law, approved earlier this week, people are allowed to report those who contest the “constitutionally recognized role of marriage and the family” and those who contest children’s rights “to an identity appropriate to their …

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Civil Rights Groups Warn Against Traveling To Florida

Via press release from Equality Florida: Today, Equality Florida took the extraordinary step of issuing a travel advisory, warning of the risks posed to the health, safety, and freedom of those considering short or long term travel, or relocation to the state. The move comes in response to a wave of safety inquiries Equality Florida has received following the passage …

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Tennessee City OKs Pride Festival In 5-4 Vote [VIDEO]

Nashville’s Fox affiliate reports: The City of Franklin voted to allow the annual Pride festival to occur in town this year. This comes right after the city decided to wait to vote on the “community decency” policy for another few weeks. The result came after the aldermen tied 4-4 in their votes, making it so Mayor Ken Moore of Franklin …

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Christians Seek To Ban Tennessee Pride Festival

NBC News reports: For the past two years, thousands of people have descended on a public park in Franklin, Tennessee — a suburb 30 minutes outside Nashville — for an LGBTQ pride festival featuring live music, food trucks and crafts vendors. But this year, Franklin Pride’s attempts to obtain a city permit have been met with fierce resistance. What had …

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George W. Bush Center Urges Uganda President Not To Sign Anti-LGBTQ Bill: “Violates Universal Human Rights”

From the George W. Bush Presidential Center: President Museveni shouldn’t sign this violation of the universal human rights of expression and association. It singles out a minority population – the LGBTQ community. While it should be opposed on that basis alone, it also could be exploited to go after any critics or opponents of the government by accusing them of …

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New Map: Where It Remains A Crime To Be LGBTQ

Forbes reports: Over the past thirty years, 49 UN member States have decriminalized consensual same-sex sexual acts, according to a new database by ILGA World. However, laws criminalizing being gay remain a reality for one-third of countries worldwide. It’s still illegal to be LGBTQ in 64 UN member States. In Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the death …

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NJ Gov Declares State “Safe Haven” For Trans Health

Via press release from New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy: Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 326 establishing New Jersey as a safe haven for gender-affirming health care by directing all state departments and agencies to protect all persons, including health care professionals and patients, against potential repercussions resulting from providing, receiving, assisting in providing or receiving, seeking, or …

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San Francisco Drag Legend Heklina Dies In London

San Francisco’s NBC affiliate reports: Longtime San Francisco drag performer Heklina has reportedly died in London, according to a social media post from fellow SF drag mainstay, Peaches Christ (aka Joshua Grannell). Heklina and Grannell were apparently in London together starring in “Mommie Queerest,” which is a described as a “Wild drag parody” of the 1981 film, “Mommie Dearest.” “This …

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POLL: Majority Oppose Laws Restricting Drag Shows

The Hill reports: The results of an NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, released Wednesday, show 58 percent of respondents said they oppose laws restricting the performances, while 39 percent said they support them. Democrats are the most likely to oppose such laws, with almost three-quarters of them saying they are opposed, but 57 percent of independents and 37 percent of Republicans also …

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SURVEY: 80% Support Broad LGBTQ Protections

The Freedom From Religion Foundation reports: A new national survey has reassuring findings that Americans of almost all religions and no religion are growing ever more supportive of LGBTQ rights. For instance, eight in 10 Americans (80 percent) in the Public Religion Research Institute survey support laws against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations and housing against gay, lesbian, bisexual and …

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Global Corporations Condemn Anti-LGBTQ Uganda Bill

Reuters reports: A coalition of international companies, including Google and Microsoft, on Wednesday denounced anti-LGBTQ legislation passed by Uganda’s parliament last week, warning it would damage the East Africa country’s economy. The Open for Business coalition said the legislation, which criminalises identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, would curb investment flows and deter tourists. The bill imposes the …

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Haters Cite US Wedding Cake Case Amid Israel Unrest

USA Today reports: Before Israel paused work this week on a controversial judicial overhaul plan that sparked a crisis in that country, a five-year-old U.S. Supreme Court dispute between a Colorado baker and a gay couple made an appearance as a key talking point for far-right allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights …

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Texas Bill Would Ban Pride Events In Public Schools

The Dallas Morning News reports: LGBTQ Pride celebrations could be banned in Texas schools under legislation up for debate Tuesday. The bill from Republican Rep. Ken King bars public schools from organizing programs “dedicated to celebrating or providing special instruction regarding a sexual preference.” “Having sexually-oriented celebrations at school, for all grades, is teaching our kids a sexual ideology – …

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Missouri AG Launches Anti-Trans Youth Snitch Line

Fox News reports: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has issued an emergency regulation regarding gender transition interventions on minors and launched a website to report allegations of malpractice at gender clinics in the state. “It’s about protecting children for me,” Bailey told Fox News Digital. “We’ve got to inject some sanity into this conversation. Gender is an objective reality defined …

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Gang Indicted In “Roofie” Murders Of NYC Gay Men

The New York Post reports: Six members of a gang that preyed on gay men at Hell’s Kitchen nightclubs have been indicted over the “roofie” murders of John Umberger and Julio Ramirez last year. Warrants were issued Friday afternoon for the arrest of three of the men for first-degree murder, while all six men have been hit with charges of …

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New Mexico Gov Signs Statewide LGBTQ Protections

The Albuquerque Journal reports: Legislation signed into law Friday will expand protections under the New Mexico Human Rights Act and remove the requirement that name changes be published in a newspaper. Supporters of the two bills say they will strengthen LGBTQ rights by updating requirements that prohibit discrimination against protected classes and allowing people to more easily change their name …

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Wilton Manors To March Against Pride Flag Ban [Video]

Fort Lauderdale’s ABC affiliate reports: The LGBTQ community in Wilton Manors is preparing to march Sunday against new measures that Republicans in Florida are pushing forward. Christ Caputo, a Wilton Manors commissioner, said it’s time for the community to stand against “discriminatory” Florida bills. Caputo said he is especially concerned about House Bill 1011 and Senate Bill 668, which set …

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TX College Sued For Banning “Degrading” Drag Show

Law & Crime reports: The president of West Texas A&M University faces a federal lawsuit calling his cancellation of a student group’s drag show to benefit LGBTQ+ suicide prevention “textbook viewpoint discrimination” that violates the First Amendment. Student group Spectrum WT, which scheduled a show titled “A Fool’s Drag Race” for March 31, seeks an injunction forcing the university to …

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Parents Sue Florida Over Ban On Gender-Affirming Care

Florida Politics reports: Four families challenging Florida’s prohibition against puberty-blocking hormones and gender-affirming surgeries for minors filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against state health officials. The lawsuit filed in Tallahassee federal court against Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and the state boards of medicine and osteopathic medicine claims the ban violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution by singling …

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WH Warns Of Cuts To Uganda Aid Over Anti-LGBTQ Bill

Courthouse News reports: The White House is warning that a proposed Ugandan bill that would outlaw identifying as LGBTQ+ could threaten U.S. aid to the African country. John Kirby, coordinator of strategic communications for the National Security Council, said Wednesday that if the law passes, the Biden administration would consider potential “repercussions, perhaps in an economic way.” “That would be …

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