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13 03, 2024

LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S.A Grew from 5.6% to 7.6% – Gallup

By JRL Charts|2024-03-13T22:50:28-07:00March 13th, 2024|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: Gallup Polls, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS, lgbt politics, LGBTQ Identification Gallup Poll|

WASHINGTON, D.C.— (03-13-24) — LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S.A grew from 5.6% to 7.6% among adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual, according to Gallup. The current figure is up from 5.6% four years ago and 3.5% in 2012, Gallup’s first year of measuring sexual orientation [...]

7 03, 2024

LGBTQ Students Seek SCOTUS Relief Over Campus Drag Show Cancellation

By JRL Charts|2024-03-07T23:06:56-08:00March 7th, 2024|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: LGBT Campus Drag Show, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS, lgbt politics, SCOTUS, Spectrum WT student group, West Texas A&M University|

CANYON, TX — (03-07-24) — We can now confirm that a West Texas A&M University LGBTQ+ student group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency relief, saying their freedom of speech is being violated after the public university’s president canceled a planned campus drag show. Unfortunately the appeal has gone directly to anti-LGBTQ Justice [...]

5 03, 2024

Philadelphia Mayor Concerned Over LGBT Office Chief’s Arrest

By JRL Charts|2024-03-05T16:42:35-08:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: Celena Morrison, Darius McLean, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS, lgbt politics, Philadelphia State Trooper|

PHILADELPHIA, PA — (03-05-24) — Philadelphia's Executive Director of the Office of LGBT Affairs and her husband's arrest last weekend has the mayor's office describing the incident as "very concerning." Last weekend, a Pennsylvania state police trooper who has not been identified, executed a car stop on the Vine Street Expressway in Philadelphia, reportedly for [...]

3 03, 2024

Tennessee Law Forbids Officials to Perform Same-Sex Marriages

By JRL Charts|2025-08-20T15:25:23-07:00March 3rd, 2024|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: anti-gay marriage law, gay Nashville news, Gov. Bill Lee, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines, lgbt politics, obergefell vs hodges, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS, Tennessee, Tennessee HB 878|

NASHVILLE, TN — (03-03-24) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the state's new anti-LGBT law last Wednesday, that will allow public officials statewide to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if doing so goes against their beliefs, a clear slap in the face to the Supreme Court’s landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling in 2015 that legalized [...]

28 02, 2024

Ghana Parliament Pass Draconian anti-LGBTQ Law

By JRL Charts|2025-08-12T18:08:59-07:00February 28th, 2024|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: anti-LGBT laws, Ghana, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines, lgbt politics, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS, President Nana Akufo-Addo, religious freedom|

ACCRA, GHANA — (02-28-24) — Ghana's parliament passed legislation on Wednesday that critics are calling a draconian anti-LGBTQ law that gives law enforcement more authority to crack down on LGBTQ activists who are promoting LGBTQ civil rights in the West African country. Gay sex is already punishable by up to three years in prison in [...]

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