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26 03, 2024

Washington State Mandates LGBTQ History in Public Schools

By JRL Charts|2025-08-29T20:07:16-07:00March 26th, 2024|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: congressional equality caucus, Jay Inslee, lgbt politics, LGBTQ Education Rights, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS, Washington Mandate LGBTQ History, Washington Senate Bill 5462|

OLYMPIA, WA — (03-26-24) — Democratic Governor of Washington Jay Inslee, signed a law last week that includes a mandate for the state’s public schools to teach LGBTQ history, as red states continue their war on the Gay Community nationwide in states with GOP majority legislatures. The new law, Senate Bill 5462, mandates that the [...]

24 03, 2024

Biden Signs Bill Banning PRIDE Flags from U.S. Embassies

By JRL Charts|2025-10-02T19:36:29-07:00March 24th, 2024|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: American Embassies, H.R. 2882 Congress Spending Bill, Joe Biden, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines, lgbt politics, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS, PRIDE Events, PRIDE flag, pride flags, PRIDE month. pride flag ban|

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (03-24-24) — The White House criticizes congressional Republicans for adding a ban on PRIDE Flags from being hung at U.S. embassies to the government's H.R. 2882 funding bill, saying it abused the budget process. The White House said that President Biden will work for its repeal but for now, all American embassies [...]

20 03, 2024

Two Gay Club Employees Arrested in Russia under Extremist Law

By JRL Charts|2025-11-13T23:49:10-08:00March 20th, 2024|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics Europe|Tags: International LGBT Movement Russia, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines, lgbt politics, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS, Russia LGBT Laws, Russian LGBTQ activists Arrested|

MOSCOW, RU — (03-20-24) — In a first under Russia's LGBTQ Extremist Law, two Gay Club employees have been arrested under the new draconian law and have been sent to pretrial detention for two months on a charge of creating an extremist group. It is the first criminal case brought since Russia's Supreme Court outlawed [...]

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 [...]

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