LGBT Politics USA
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EEOC Moves to End 60 Years of Workplace Diversity Data Collection
By: Paul Goldberg – Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 21, 2026) — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has voted to advance a proposal that would eliminate one of the federal government's longest-running workplace civil rights reporting programs, triggering sharp criticism from employment advocates and civil rights organizations across the country. In a 2-1 vote, the Republican-controlled commission approved a proposal to end the longstanding EEO-1 [...]
Third Missing U.S. Service Member Confirmed Dead After Iran’s Jordan Base Attack
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | Breaking Military News WASHINGTON, D.C. — ( July 19, 2026 ) — The number of U.S. military personnel killed during Iran's latest wave of attacks in the Middle [...]
Scott Bessent’s Economic Statecraft Speech Sparks Global Debate Over U.S. Financial Power
By: Paul Goldberg — Senior Correspondent | LGBT Business Finance News WASHINGTON, D.C. — July 16, 2026 — Openly gay U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is facing growing international scrutiny after outlining an aggressive vision [...]
Appeals Court Hands Trump Major Win in USPS Mail-In Ballot Fight
By: Paul Goldberg – Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 17, 2026) — In a significant legal victory for President Donald Trump, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of [...]
RFK Jr. Revokes Biden-Era LGBTQ+ Foster Care Rule, Sparking National Backlash
By: Paul Goldberg - Senior Correspondent | LGBT Politics USA WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 15, 2026) — The Trump administration has officially rescinded a Biden-era federal regulation that sought to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ youth [...]
LGBT Politics Europe
EU Lawmakers to Protest Budapest Pride Ban
By Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics Europe MEPs Unite to Defy Budapest Pride Ban, Urge EU to Act Against Hungary BRUSSELS — (May 22, 2025) — A cross-party coalition of Members [...]
Russian Gay Travel Agency Owner Found Dead in Custody
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics Europe MOSCOW, RU — (01-01-25) — An alleged gay Russian man who was arrested for allegedly running the Men Travel agency, an LGBT travel [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
LGBT Politics Asia
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
