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India's Supreme Court has decided to re-examine Section 377 of the Indian Constitution, a law it reinstated two years ago that criminalizes LGBTQ sexuality. The law, which dates back to 1860, refers to oral and anal sex acts as "unnatural" and carries a potential punishment of up to ...
... as a gender non-conforming, working-class youth experiencing homelessness. Poetry is particularly important in giving visibility and voice to people who are disabled and LGBTQ -- people who are too often silenced, or told that only one part of their identity is valid, he said. "Queer and trans people and ...
... character was portrayed." In our next #NewsHourChats, we’ll ask some of the questions raised by this issue: Should we be taking efforts to encourage LGBTQ diversity in Hollywood? What are some common mistakes Hollywood makes in portraying LGBTQ people? What are some ways a push for LGBTQ diversity can ...
LGBTQ African immigrants are the heart of “Limit(less),” a photography documentary project that illuminates the lives of first and second-generation LGBTQ Africans in the diaspora. Photographer Mikael Owunna's childhood as a queer Nigerian-American informed his work and the creation of the project, he said. Owunna said ...
Five years ago, 18-year-old Constance McMillen was banned from bringing her girlfriend to prom at Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Itawamba County, Mississippi. When McMillen protested the decision, the school canceled prom entirely. The controversy set off a wave of protests and coverage on LGBTQ youth, bringing ...
... marriage ban was lifted last year. This fear is deeply personal for my students, some of whom have been raised to believe that religion and LGBTQ equal rights cannot coexist. While not all of the local churches in our community reject gay marriage, many LGBTQ students have been told that ...
... for sustained investment in 988 from federal, and especially state, lawmakers,” said Jonathan Purtle, a New York University mental health policy researcher. Specialized line for LGBTQ+ youth In a Capitol Hill hearing Tuesday, Sen. Tammy Baldwin pressed Kennedy to follow through on a “legal requirement” to restore 988's specialized ...
On LGBTQ+ blessings and morality Leo was asked about the recent invitation by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich, for the priests and pastoral workers in his archdioceses to adopt a set of guidelines formalizing and ritualizing blessings of same-sex couples. The guidelines were approved last year by a ...
... family in Colorado, to overturn the ruling.The high court recently has backed other claims of religious discrimination while taking a more skeptical view of LGBTQ+ rights. The justices last month ruled against another law in Colorado that banned “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids after the measure was challenged by ...
Silueta X publishes an annual record of killings of LGBTQ+ people. Its first report in 2013 documented two killings and the numbers have risen every year. The 2025 publication reported 30 deaths, 21 of them trans women. From parents to advocates Amada told her parents that she was a girl ...
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