LGBT Politics USA
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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 declines in HIV testing, prevention services, and PrEP enrollment following sweeping changes to U.S. foreign aid programs under the Trump administration. While administration officials have highlighted stable HIV treatment numbers as evidence that their strategy [...]
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 [...]
LGBTQ Business Owners Join Growing Coalition Against Bank Account Closures
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Business Finance News LAS VEGAS, NV — (June 8, 2026) — A growing coalition of artists, entrepreneurs, digital asset firms, civil liberties advocates, and LGBTQ allies is weighing [...]
Federal Indictment Against LGBTQ Rights Attorney Suddenly Dismissed
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA LAS VEGAS, NV — (June 10, 2026) — A federal indictment filed against LGBTQ rights attorney Carl Charles has been dismissed, bringing an unexpected conclusion [...]
New Data Shows LGBTQ+ Businesses Navigating Tougher Financial Climate in 2026
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Business Finance News LAS VEGAS, NV — (June 7, 2026) — The economic outlook for many LGBTQ+ businesses and organizations remains challenging in 2026 as a combination [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Turkish Judge Moves Forward on LGBT Pride Marchers
ANKARA — (12-01-19) — A Turkish judge has ruled that the cases against LGBT pride marchers can go forward, rejecting their calls to throw out the trial of 19 people. Turkish authorities arrested 19 people [...]
