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KABUL — (01-26-22) — A new report published Wednesday said that LGBT citizens of Afghanistan are facing increased security threats to their lives. Since the Taliban took power back last year, it has "dramatically worsened" for LGBT Afghans. "The danger now facing LGBT people in Afghanistan—in an environment devoid of legal protections, under authorities that [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. — (01-23-22) — Interim director of the LGBT Center of Raleigh announced on Friday that former director Lindsey Lughes was suspended and then terminated over alleged fraud and "unusual financial activity", following the non-profit's internal audit. Lughes became executive director of the center in 2019 but exited the organization in 2021. After being [...]
COLUMBUS, OH — (01-19-22) — Internationally known gay rights activist and named plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, Jim Obergefell, announced on Tuesday he's launching a bid for the Ohio State House. "I took a history making fight for equal rights all the way to the US Supreme Court and [...]
INDEPENDENCE, MO — (01-17-22) — The keynote speaker for the Independence's Martin Luther King Celebration on Monday will be Kylar Broadus, a Black transgender American who is a noted attorney, speaker and activist for LGBTQ rights. A native of Fayette, Missouri, Broadus has received several awards and recognitions for his decades of work on behalf [...]
JACKSON COUNTY, FL — (01-14-22) — LGBTQ+ rights activist Jorge Diaz-Johnston, who played an integral role in legalizing same-sex marriage in Florida prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 decision, was found dead in a landfill in Jackson County, Florida. According to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, Jorge Diaz-Johnston's remains were found in a [...]
PARIS, FR — (01-12-22) — France' Health Ministry announced on Tuesday they will now allow LGBT citizens to donate blood without "discriminatory" conditions. Beginning March 16, blood donation will be open to all French citizens regardless of a citizen's sexual orientation, said health minister Olivier Véran. "We are putting an end to an inequality that [...]
LAS VEGAS — (01-09-22) — Pope Francis once again sticks a thorn in his conservative colleagues in Rome by showing his support for LGBT Catholics by praising Jeannine Gramick, S.L., the co-founder of the Catholic apostolate New Ways Ministry in a handwritten letter. Sister Gramick is celebrating 50 years of working with and advocating for [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — (01-05-22) — Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce and NASCAR announce new partnership for 2022. Times are definitely changing in America as the Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce, one of the largest LGBT Chambers within the region pushing for equitable change within the workplace and marketplace, announced Wednesday that NASCAR will become the [...]
WORCESTER, MA — (12-29-21) — Hadwen Park Congregational Church’s LGBT Asylum Task Force opened its doors to their renovated apartment building as a new safe space for LGBT immigrants seeking asylum from persecution. The task force raised over $500,000 to purchase and renovate the three-story building that at one time served as a boys home. [...]
MCFARLAND, CA — (12-28-21) — McFarland police announced the arrest of three men last Thursday for using anti-LGBT slurs against a child and another person in McFarland. According to police, the trio identified as Cory Mellum, 24, Bradley Behling, 24, both of Arena, and Malik Yrios, 23, of Madison, rang the doorbell at a residence [...]