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By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics USA SAN FRANCISCO — (04-28-23) — San Francisco is repealing a ban on city-funded travel to 30 states that are known to have anti-LGBT laws in place. Critics say that by lifting the ban on states that have restrictions on abortion, Laws that are [...]
KAMPALA, UG — (04-21-23) — President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda announced on Thursday that he would not sign an anti-LGBTQ Bill into law, a controversial new bill against homosexuality that prescribes the death penalty in violation of the anti-Human Rights law. Museveni’s decision was announced late on Thursday after a meeting of parliamentarians in his [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — (04-06-23) — The U.S. Supreme Court voted to allow a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her middle school’s girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban continues. Justices Alito and Thomas of course, were the dissenters. In a shock to right wing conservatives, the U.S [...]
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA — (04-02-23) — After publishing its June LGBTQ-focused edition, the Grand Island Northwest Public Schools shutdown the Viking Saga newspaper at Grand Island Northwest High School. Now, the school district has been sued by the Nebraska High School Press Association and a former high school journalist, claiming in their federal lawsuit filed last [...]
DES MOINES, IA — (03-01-23) — The Republican controlled state Legislature is considering a bill that would permit residents to deny recognition of same-sex marriages on religious grounds. Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congress codified same-sex marriage, Iowa Republicans have now proposed banning such unions in [...]
SEOUL, KR — (02-26-23) — South Korea' Supreme Court ruled in favor of LGBTQ+ couples in a landmark ruling that says spousal coverage under the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) should be applied equally to both LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ couples. “The plaintiff and his partner are both male, but they agreed to recognize each other [...]
NAIROBI, KENYA — (02-25-23) — Kenya' Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Kenyan authorities were wrong to ban the LGBT community from registering a rights organization. Yet at the same time it stressed that gay sex remains illegal. The judges ruled three-to-two that the country's NGO board were in error to stop the National Gay [...]
MADRID, SPAIN — (02-16-23) — By a vote of 191 votes to 60 with 91 abstentions, the ruling left-wing government passed on Thursday, a law allowing people to freely change their gender from the age of 16, at a time when other European countries in the EU are holding back on this controversial subject. The [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics USA SACRAMENTO, CA — (02-16-23) — California lawmakers will attempt to enshrine the right to same-sex marriage into the state's constitution. The effort being spear headed by state senator Scott Wiener and Assembly Member Evan Low of Silicon Valley, comes 15 years after a [...]
LAS VEGAS — (01-31-23) — The ACLU release the latest alarming map of U.S. State Legislatures that have anti-LGBTQ bills on its docket. Over the last few years states have advanced a record number of bills that attack LGBTQ rights, especially transgender youth. The ACLU is tracking these attacks and working with a national network [...]