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MARSHALL, MINN — (12-01-21) — Conservatives continue to war against supporters of LGBT students as a southwest Minnesota middle school principal who was fired over displaying a rainbow LGBT Pride flag in her school's cafeteria, has filed a lawsuit against the school district. Former Marshall Public Schools' middle school principal Mary Kay Thomas, filed her [...]
KANSAS CITY — (11-22-21) — A Missouri school district on Monday announced they are returning two books exploring LGBTQ+ themes to its high school libraries after public uproar. The two books that are being returned to high School library shelves are “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “Fun Home”. A school district spokesperson confirmed to JRL [...]
BEIJING, CN — (11-07-21) — China's most influential gay rights group, LGBT advocacy Group China, announced it has ceased all activities and have moved to shut down it's social media accounts in an announcement last Thursday. LGBT Advocacy Group China spearheaded many of the legal cases in China. Pushing for gay rights and halting workplace [...]
LAS VEGAS – (10-27-21) – Campus Pride, a nonprofit organization, has released its annual “Worst List” of colleges and universities deemed 'unsafe' for LGBTQ+ students in the United States. Campus Pride works to make college and university campuses safe for the LGBTQ+ community and created their 'Worst List' back in 2015. As of 2021, 50 [...]
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. Kimahli Powell, executive director of Rainbow Railroad, talked to CBSN's Tanya Rivero about the crisis and what his organization is [...]
PINEHURST, N.C. — (10-11-21) — Lt Gov. Mark Robinson (R) is in hot water as state representatives and LGBTQ activists are demanding his resignation over calling LGBTQ people 'Filth'. The firestorm happened after a video surfaced showing Robinson describing the LGBTQ community as "filth." Right Wing Watch, a project of the progressive advocacy group People [...]
POLAND — (09-23-21) — A region in southern Poland has revoked the conservative anti-LGBT Free Zone resolution after the European Union froze funding for the region. The announcement came after the regional assembly of Swietokrzyskie voted in a special session on Wednesday to revoke the anti-LGBT Free Zone resolution which was first passed in 2019 [...]
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA — (08-18-21) — The school board in Loudoun County, Virginia, sparked outrage on Wednesday when they voted to adopt a hotly contested policy requiring teachers to address students by their preferred gender names and pronouns. Board members Jeffrey Morse and John Beatty voted against the proposal. "It's anti-family, anti-privacy, anti-teacher," said Morse. [...]
EUROPE — (07-16-21) — Brussels announced on Friday they've launched legal action against Hungary over its controversial new anti-LGBT law that has been condemned as discriminatory across the European Union. The political row began last month when Hungarian MPs passed the Children Protection Act, with the sole purpose of safeguarding children's wellbeing and fighting pedophilia. [...]
LANSING, MI — (07-09-21) — The Michigan elections bureau on Friday announced that a ballot drive effort to protect LGBT citizens from discrimination has failed again, thanks to the Republican who have a track record of blocking such initiatives. ABC News reported that according to Republicans, the Fair and Equal Michigan failed to collect enough [...]