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20 02, 2019

Trump Kicks Off Campaign to Decriminalize Homosexuality

By Paul Goldberg|2026-05-01T11:41:33-07:00February 20th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Ambassador Grenell, Decriminalize Homosexuality, Iran executives gay man, lgbt politics, LGBTQ protections, richard grenell, Trump administration, Trump Launches Campaign|

WASHINGTON, D.C — (02-20-19) — Trump Administration kicks off campaign to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide. This after two years of his DOJ attacking the few rights the LGBTQ community has fought for over the past two decades. The Trump administration announced on Tuesday February 19, that it will launch a global campaign to end the criminalization of [...]

11 02, 2019

Senator Lynn Hutchings Compare Homosexuality to Pedophilia, bestiality in Meeting with LGBTQ HS Students

By Paul Goldberg|2026-05-01T11:33:57-07:00February 11th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: anti-LGBTQ, bestiality, compares homosexuality to pedophilia, Gay-Straight Alliance, lgbt politics, LGBTQ protections, Senator Lynn Hutchings, Wyoming Equality, Wyoming Republican senator|

WYOMING — (02-11-19) — Wyoming Senator Lynn Hutchings (R), compared homosexuality to pedophilia and bestiality during a meeting with LGBTQ high school students during the Gay-Straight Alliance Civics Day at the state's Capitol back on February 1. Senator Hutchings disgusting and hateful opinions of homosexuality were on full display to the 10 LGBTQ students who [...]

3 02, 2019

Arkansas Supreme court rules city can’t enforce LGBT protections

By Paul Goldberg|2026-05-01T11:33:57-07:00February 3rd, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: arkansas lgbt politics, Arkansas Supreme Court, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, city of Fayetteville, Gay Arkansas News, human rights campaign, Justice Robin Wynne, LGBT Politics USA, LGBT Rights News & Updates | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics, LGBTQ protections|

LITTLE ROCK — (02-03-19) — Arkansas Supreme Court ruled last Thursday, that the city of Fayetteville can't enforce LGBT protections based on its ordinance banning discrimination on sexual orientation or gender identity. The state Supreme Court unanimously reversed a Washington County judge’s decision to allow Fayetteville to continue enforcing its anti-discrimination ordinance while the city [...]

26 01, 2019

Cuomo Bans Conversion Therapy, Signs GENDA Protections Law

By Paul Goldberg|2026-05-01T11:33:58-07:00January 26th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: bans conversion therapy, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, GENDA protection law, lgbt mental health news, LGBTQ protections, transgender civil rights, U.S. Transgender Survey|

NEW YORK — (01-26-19) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday signed two bills, a Transgender Rights Bill known as GENDA and a bill which bans the controversial conversion therapy on children. The conversion therapy ban and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), adds gender expression and identity as protected classes in New York state's human [...]

24 01, 2019

Gay Congressman Jean Wyllys Escapes Brazil Over Death Threats

By Paul Goldberg|2026-05-01T11:35:33-07:00January 24th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: associated press, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, councilwoman Marielle Franco, death threats, flees country, Gay Congressman, Hate Crime – LGBTQ Attacks, homophobia, homophobic, Jean Wyllys, lgbt politics, LGBTQ protections, Threats & Global Reports | JRL CHARTS|

LGBT POLITICS — (01-24-19) — Brazil’s only openly gay Congressman has left his job, home and country over multiple death threats. Elected three times to congress with his win last October with impressive numbers, Wyllys has left everything he owned and loved in Brazil. The news went viral following an interview published by daily Folha [...]

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