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READING, PA — (03-09-22) — The LGBT Center of Greater Reading and Safe Berks announce that they are teaming up to include an onsite Safe Berks advocate to help combat domestic violence and sexual assault in underserved communities. “We believe that partnerships like this are one of the key weapons to combat hate, aggression, and [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (03-07-22) — The U.S. Senate passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act of 2022 on Monday night by unanimous consent, making lynching a federal hate crime and explicitly criminalizing a heinous act that has become a symbol of our history's racial violence. After more than a century and 200 failed attempts to pass [...]
PALM COAST, FL — (03-07-22) — A Florida high school student has been suspended indefinitely for handing out Gay Pride flags during a walkout to protest the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Flagler Palm Coast High School junior Jack Petocz was one of the organizers of the statewide walkout last Thursday to protest House Bill [...]
SALT LAKE CITY, UT — (03-07-22) — Last Saturday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox pledged to veto House Bill 11, the state's anti-transgender legislation that would ban transgender youth from participating in school sports. House Bill 11 was approved in the late night hour and sent to the governor’s desk for signature. With the governor’s pledge [...]
PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL — (03-06-22) — A Florida man identified as Alexander Jerich, 20, pleaded guilty to deliberately burning skid marks on a gay-pride rainbow crosswalk that had just been painted on a Florida intersection. The incident took place while he was participating in a rally for ex-President Donald Trump's birthday. Alexander Jerich confessed [...]
SINGAPORE — (03-02-22) — Singapore's Supreme Court dismissed a challenge by three gay rights activists to overturn the country's Gay Sex Ban. The gay rights activists had filed their suit against a law that criminalizes sex between two men. Singapore's Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon used the excuse that..."Although the law, known as Section 377A, had [...]
MOSCOW — (02-27-22) — President Vladimir Putin placed his country’s strategic deterrence forces on “special” alert on Sunday, announcing his latest move during a meeting with his Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov. “Western countries are not only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic area," said Putin. "I'm [...]
NEW YORK, NY — (02-26-22) — Police say a hate-filled male suspect is being sought for a homophobic tirade aimed at a teenage straphanger in a Midtown train station. According to police, the 17-year-old victim was on the southbound E and F train platform at the Lexington Ave./53rd St. station around 7:50 a.m. on February [...]
TALLAHASSEE, FL — (02-24-22) — Florida's Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed their discrimination bill, 'Don't Say Gay' Thursday. The anti-LGBT bill would prohibit "classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity" in the state’s primary schools. The legislation — titled the 'Parental Rights in Education' bill aka "Don’t Say Gay" bill, now heads to the [...]
TALLAHASSEE, FL — (02-23-22) — Florida State Rep. Joe Harding (R) withdrew his proposed amendment to Florida's Don't Say Gay Bill that would have forced teachers to out LGBT kids to their parents. Thanks to Democrats, the amendment was pulled but that didn't stop the condemnation for such an amendment from LGBTQ groups and President [...]