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Education Department Drops LGBTQ+ Student Data From Civil Rights Survey
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 31, 2026) — The U.S. Department of Education will no longer collect several categories of LGBTQ+ student information as part of its Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), ending the federal reporting of nonbinary student enrollment and removing references to gender identity from portions of the nationwide education survey. The revisions, approved by the Office of Management [...]
Global HIV Funding Plunges After Trump Aid Cuts, New Reports Warn
By: Paul Goldberg – Senior Correspondent | LGBT International News WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 27, 2026) — The global fight against HIV/AIDS suffered its most significant financial setback in nearly two decades after new reports from [...]
GOP Rift Deepens as Cornyn Challenges Trump on PEPFAR AIDS Funding
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 21, 2026) — A growing divide within Senate Republicans emerged Tuesday after Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) announced he would oppose advancing [...]
Americans Flood FCC With Opposition to LGBTQ TV Warning Labels
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 24, 2026) — A proposed review of the nation's television ratings system by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has sparked widespread public [...]
Hegseth’s $37.5 Billion Iran War Admission Sparks Online Firestorm
By: Paul Goldberg – Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 21, 2026) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's confirmation that the United States has spent $37.5 billion on the war with Iran [...]
LGBT Politics Europe
Christian Group Threatens Westminster Over PRIDE Flags
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics Europe WESTMINSTER, UK — (June 16, 2025) — The City of Westminster is once again under fire from right-wing activists, as lobby group Christian Concern [...]
European Pride Celebrations Hit Hard by Global DEI Backlash
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics Europe BERLIN, GERMANY — (June 14, 2025) — Corporate sponsors are pulling back from European Pride celebrations this year, as organizers across the continent report [...]
Pride Parades Ignite Solidarity in Poland and Portugal as Political Tensions Rise
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics Europe EUROPE — (June 9, 2025) — Both Poland and Portugal ushered in Pride Month this past weekend with colorful and defiant parades, blending [...]
EU Adviser Slams Hungary’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Law as “Unconstitutional Attack on Equality
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics Europe BRUSSELS — (June 11, 2025) — In a scathing legal rebuke, a top adviser to the European Union’s highest court declared that Hungary’s [...]
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 [...]
LGBT Politics Asia
Seoul Officials Ban South Korea’s Biggest PRIDE Parade
SEOUL, KR — (05-05-23) — In a blow to LGBTQ Rights in South Korea, the organizers of the country's biggest Pride parade, Seoul Queer Culture Festival, said they were denied their annual permit. The organization [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
