LGBT Politics USA
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Trump Takes Transgender Military Ban to Supreme Court Before Explosive 2027 Trial
By: Paul Goldberg – Senior Correspondent | Breaking Military News WASHINGTON, D.C. — (August 29, 2026) — President Donald Trump’s administration has taken its battle over transgender military service directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to intervene before a federal trial examines whether the Pentagon’s sweeping policy forcing transgender troops from service violates the Constitution. The Justice Department filed its petition Friday, August 28, seeking Supreme Court review of a [...]
Pentagon Backs Off — For Now — in Explosive Stars and Stripes Press Freedom Fight
By: Paul Goldberg – Senior Correspondent | Breaking Military News WASHINGTON, D.C. — (August 28, 2026) — Three senior Stars and Stripes journalists facing termination by the Pentagon have received a temporary reprieve as their [...]
Divide and Conquer: How the Transgender Culture War Is Fracturing LGBT Political Power
By: Paul Goldberg – Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA LAS VEGAS, NV — (August 26, 2026) — The political genius of a wedge issue isn't convincing everyone to agree. It's convincing former allies to fight [...]
America’s Job Market Just Got Worse — And Higher Interest Rates Could Be Next
By: Paul Goldberg — Senior Correspondent | LGBT Business Finance News WASHINGTON, D.C. — (August 28, 2026) — Americans searching for work are confronting an uncomfortable economic combination: The United States created even fewer jobs [...]
Canada Opens First National LGBTQ Monument Honoring Victims of the LGBT Purge
By: Paul Goldberg – Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics International OTTAWA, Canada — (August 25, 2026) — Canada has formally opened Thunderhead, its first national monument dedicated to 2SLGBTQI+ communities, creating a permanent memorial to [...]
LGBT Politics Europe
Budapest Defies Orbán: Massive Pride Protest Erupts Despite Ban
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics Europe BUDAPEST, HUNGARY — (June 28, 2025) — Tens of thousands flooded the streets of Budapest in a powerful act of defiance against Hungary’s [...]
German Parents Sue to Remove LGBT Flags from School Grounds in Berlin Showdown
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics Europe BERLIN, GERMANY — (June 20, 2025) — In a move stirring headlines across Europe, a pair of Berlin parents have filed a lawsuit [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
