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Minneapolis Moves to Repeal 1988 Gay Bathhouse Ban Amid Culture-War Attacks
By: Paul Goldberg – Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (June 19, 2026) — More than two months after Minneapolis officials began considering the legalization of regulated bathhouses, the debate returned to City Hall this week as supporters urged council members to repeal the city's 1988 gay bathhouse ban. The proposal has drawn backing from LGBTQ advocates, public health organizations and tourism supporters who argue the decades-old ordinance no [...]
DOJ Refuses Judge’s Demand to Kill $1.8 Billion Trump-Era Compensation Fund
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (June 19, 2026) — A growing legal battle between the U.S. Department of Justice and a federal judge intensified Friday after government [...]
New HIV Data Raises Alarms After Trump Administration Funding Cuts
By: Paul Goldberg | Senior Political Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (June 15, 2026) — New federal data released in April 2026 is intensifying concerns among global health experts after revealing significant [...]
LGBTQ Consumers Shift Spending Away from Target, Walmart and Amazon
By: Paul Goldberg | Senior Political Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA LAS VEGAS, NV — (June 18, 2026) — A growing number of LGBTQ consumers are adjusting their shopping habits based on how they perceive corporate [...]
Christian Foster Care Giant to Bar LGBTQ Couples from New Adoptions Beginning in 2027
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — (June 14, 2026) — One of the nation's largest Christian foster care and adoption agencies has announced a major policy change [...]
LGBT Politics Europe
Scottish Government Acts to Protect Financial Payments for LGBTQ+ Veterans
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Business Correspondent | LGBT Politics Europe UNITED KINGDOM — (June 8, 2025) — Peter Gibson, Chief Executive of Fighting with Pride, hailed the latest move by the Scottish Government as a “crucial [...]
EU Lawmakers to Protest Budapest Pride Ban
By Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics Europe MEPs Unite to Defy Budapest Pride Ban, Urge EU to Act Against Hungary BRUSSELS — (May 22, 2025) — A cross-party coalition of Members [...]
Right Wing Nationalists Force Cancellation of ‘Kyiv Queer Talk’ Event
LAS VEGAS, NV — (12-09-24) — Ukrainian right-wing nationalists clashed with police over the weekend at the 'Kyiv Queer Talk' event. The incident took place outside the Office Repair Together meeting space in downtown Kiev, [...]
Russian Gay Travel Agency Owner Found Dead in Custody
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics Europe MOSCOW, RU — (01-01-25) — An alleged gay Russian man who was arrested for allegedly running the Men Travel agency, an LGBT travel [...]
Twelve LGBT Russians found guilty after Police Raid Gay Clubs
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics Europe MOSCOW, RU — (12-04-24) — Moscow has disgraced itself by finding twelve Moscow Gay clubgoers guilty of “petty hooliganism” following anti-LGBTQ "propaganda" raids [...]
LGBT Politics Asia
South Korea High Court hands Gay Couple Historic Win
SEOUL, KR — (02-26-23) — South Korea' Supreme Court ruled in favor of LGBTQ+ couples in a landmark ruling that says spousal coverage under the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) should be applied equally to [...]
PM of Japan fires Aide over Derogatory LGBT Remarks
TOKYO, JP — Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has fired one of his cabinet secretary's who made anti-LGBT remarks about gay couples. Former cabinet secretary Masayoshi Arai reportedly said he "Would not want to live [...]
Iran Executes Two LGBTQ Rights Activists in Tehran
By: Paul Goldberg — Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics Asia News URMIA, IRAN — (09-04-22) — The Islamic Republic of Iran sentenced to death two LGBTQ Rights activists on the grounds of promoting "Homosexual Rights" in the [...]
Egyptian Police Targeting Gay Men thru Dating Apps
UNITED KINGDOM — (01-30-23) — Egyptian police are targeting the LGBTQ community (primarily Gay Men), through dating apps. That is what BBC investigative reporter Ahmed Shihab-Eldin discovered. While the LGBTQ community is heavily stigmatized in [...]
Iran Executes Two Gay Men Over Sodomy Charges
By: Paul Goldberg — Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics Asia News DUBAI, UAE — (02-02-22) — Iran announced on Tuesday they had executed two gay men who were convicted on sodomy charges and who had [...]
