LGBT Politics USA
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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 cleared the way Thursday for President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order tightening restrictions on mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled that legal challenges brought by Democratic organizations [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Republicans Revolt Against Trump Housing Cuts as LGBTQ Americans Face Growing Housing Crisis
By Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON D.C. — (May 23, 2026) — Republican lawmakers are publicly breaking ranks with the White House after President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget [...]
LGBT Politics Europe
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thousands Turn Out for Madrid Gay Pride Parade
MADRID, SPAIN — (07-07-24) — Tens of thousand of attendees turned out for the 2024 Madrid Gay Pride Parade that took place on Saturday in the capital city. The 2024 Madrid Pride Parade attendance shattered [...]
LGBT Politics Asia
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 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. [...]
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 [...]
Gay Iranian Man Beheaded in Alleged Honor Killing
By: Paul Goldberg — Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics Asia LAS VEGAS — (05-11-21) — A young 20 year-old gay man by the name of Ali Fazeli Monfared, was beheaded by family members in what [...]
