WASHINGTON D.C. — (09-14-21) — The Biden Administration's Justice Department on Tuesday announced a sweeping investigation into the Georgia state prison system plagued with an extreme culture of violence and neglect against LGBT inmates, staffing shortages and the alarming number of 44 inmate deaths by homicide since last year. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke told [...]
OTTAWA — (03-11-20) — Canada's Justice Minister David Lametti introduced a Bill to the House of Commons that would make it illegal to practice conversion therapy on a minor. “Conversion therapy is a cruel practice that can lead to life-long trauma, particularly for young people,” David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, [...]
RALEIGH, NC — (08-03-19) — North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper made history on Friday, when he signed executive order No. 97, banning state-sponsored conversion therapy funding on LGBTQ youths. Governor Cooper directed North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to cease the use of federal and state funds for the harmful and discredited practice [...]
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — (07-18-19) — Israel’s education minister Rafi Peretz, has apologized for his controversial remarks about 'gay conversion therapy” and intermarriage among Diaspora Jews that drew worldwide backlash. Rafi Peretz, leader of a small right wing religious nationalist party, wrote in a letter to the head of the Jewish Agency on Tuesday that his [...]
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — (07-15-19) — Israel's new Education Minister Rafi Peretz backtracks his support on gay conversion therapy. The Education Minister attempted to clarify his controversial statements on Saturday, about gay conversion therapy, saying he did not intend that gay children should be sent to conversion therapy. Education Minister Peretz Performed Gay Conversion Therapy on [...]