Many gay and lesbian service members described living and serving in limbo, knowing there was no longer a ban on them per se, but that their careers would still be at risk if they were found out. That began to change on Dec. 22, 2010.
... People who take kids as foster parents aren't often willing to take teenagers in general. And then, you know, you say, well, they're LGBTQ on top of that and they really don't want to deal with it. They frequently wind up in residential treatment centers or group ...
“It is my hope that a young LGBTQ kid here in Delaware or really anywhere in this country can look at the results and know that our democracy is big enough for them, too,” McBride said as her victory was confirmed Tuesday night. McBride interned at the White House ...
... decision, as was deceased Justice Antonin Scalia, whose judicial philosophy Barrett has said mirrors her own. Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group that opposes Barrett’s confirmation, said his group fears “a far-right Supreme Court that could undermine the rights of marginalized communities ...
... and have a certain disdain for trans and queer people," said Tori Cooper of the Human Rights Campaign, a national organization that advocates for the LGBTQ community. Cooper is the director of community engagement for the organization's Transgender Justice Initiative. A survey of more than 12,000 LGBTQ teens ...
... spoken in the employee's defense and a state prosecutor is suing the IKEA manager who fired him. Brudzinski also waded into the debate about LGBTQ rights in the summer, saying on Twitter that “Poland without LGBT is most beautiful.” His tweet included an image of Jesus and eggs in ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Soraya Santiago, the first openly trans person to run for office in Puerto Rico and a longtime icon for the U.S. territory’s LGBTQ community, died Tuesday. She was 73. Santiago died of cancer at her home in the north coastal city of Carolina ...
... Poland between those supporting greater tolerance and legal protections for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people and a conservative government that has been denouncing the LGBTQ rights movement as a threat.President Andrzej Duda won re-election last month after a campaign that stressed his opposition to LGBTQ rights. He ...
... unfriendly climate for liberals and minorities. As Duda faced a tough electoral challenge from Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, the rhetoric grew harsher. He called the LGBTQ movement an "ideology" worse than communism and declared that LGBTQ was "not people." He formally proposed the same-sex adoption ban. After his victory ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The deputy White House liaison for the U.S. Agency for International Development has been fired after posting a series of anti-LGBTQ tweets and complaining of anti-Christian bias by her now former colleagues. Officials said Merritt Corrigan was fired on Monday just hours after sending the ...
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