GREENBELT, MD — (08-25-23) — Maryland district judge Deborah Boardman, denied parents’ appeal to reinstate an opt-out policy for the LGBT Curriculum in Montgomery County Public Schools on Thursday, striking a blow to anti-LGBTQ activists. The case, Tamer Mahmoud v. Monica B. McKnight, was filed over the district’s May decision to rescind its opt-out policy [...]
WASHINGTON D.C — (07-19-23) — The Republican majority in the US House of Representatives have struck down three Democratic projects that would have provided services to the LGBT community during Tuesday’s fiscal 2024 Transportation-HUD Appropriations markup. Needless to say Democrats were enraged. The three earmarks cost came to a total of $3.62 million, with two [...]
SACRAMENTO, CA — (05-21-23) — The LGBT Bill of Rights adopted in California is being challenged in the case of Taking Offense vs State of California. The case pending before the California Supreme Court is challenging a provision of the state’s LGBT bill of rights that protects residents from a residential community or facility’s refusal [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Political Correspondent | JRL CHARTS NAIROBI, KENYA — (02-25-23) — Kenya' Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Kenyan authorities were wrong to ban the LGBT community from registering a rights organization. Yet at the same time it stressed that gay sex remains illegal. Related LGBT International News Coverage on JRL CHARTS: • EU [...]
SALT LAKE CITY, UT — (02-06-23) — A deal has been struck by legislatures on a bill that originally sought to dismantle some of Utah's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy. The LGBTQ Conversion Therapy deal revolves around a language change in House Bill 228, but JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics News has confirmed it will preserve [...]