LGBT Politics USA
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Pete Buttigieg Leads 2028 Democratic Contenders in New National Survey
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA LAS VEGAS, NV — (May 29, 2026) — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has emerged as the early leader in a new hypothetical 2028 Democratic presidential primary survey, highlighting the growing national profile of one of America's most prominent LGBTQ political figures. According to a new Emerson College Polling survey released Thursday, Buttigieg received 18 percent support among Democratic primary [...]
Trump Scores Key Court Victory as Mail-In Ballot Restrictions Move Forward
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (May 28, 2026) — Another federal court ruling is fueling a growing national battle over voting rights after a Trump-appointed judge [...]
Federal Court Drops Explosive Ruling on Alabama GOP Congressional Map
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA MONTGOMERY, AL — (May 26, 2026) — A federal three-judge panel — including two judges appointed by President Donald Trump — delivered a major legal [...]
DOJ Targets Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll After Civil Jury Found President Liable for Sexual Abuse
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (May 27, 2026) — President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into writer E. [...]
Colorado Passes Sweeping LGBTQ Mental Health Protections for Youth
By: Paul Goldberg – Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA DENVER, CO — (May 24, 2026) — Lawmakers in Colorado have approved sweeping new legislation designed to preserve protections for LGBTQ+ youth against conversion therapy [...]
LGBT Politics Europe
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, [...]
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 [...]
Trans Woman Brutally Murdered after anti-LGBT Law Passed
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics USA - Hate Crime Report TBILISI, GA — (09-20-24) — We are sad to report that one of Georgia's most well-known transgender women, Kesaria [...]
Georgia Right-Wing Speaker Signs anti-LGBTQ Bill into Law
TBILISI, GEORGIA — (10-04-24) — Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has refused to sign her right wing parliament's bill that bans LGBT Rights. In response, the Georgian Parliament's Speaker Shalva Papuashvili, signed the bill into law [...]
Ghana’s Supreme Court Upholds Law Criminalizing Gay Sex
ACCRA, GH — (07-26-24) — Ghana’s Supreme Court upheld the country's six-decade-old law criminalizing gay sex, as the west African country awaits another court decision on whether to authorize harsher penalties upon its LGBT population [...]
LGBT Politics Asia
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
LGBTQ People Are Being Hunted Down in Kabul, Afghanistan
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — (10-15-21) — LGBTQ people in Afghanistan are being hunted down by the Taliban. They are currently living in fear and are worried they will be found, persecuted and killed by the Taliban. [...]
