Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a state law that allows businesses to refuse LGBTQ people services based on religious beliefs, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. In his statement, Bryant said that he wanted the law "to protect the sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of individuals, organizations and ...
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 ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary's capital on Saturday to celebrate the 31st annual Budapest Pride, the first such LGBTQ+ march since former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who had sought to ban the event, was ousted in an April election. The ...
... Georgia farmers struggle with a major drought as climate change makes weather less predictable; and a new book details the hardships faced by Ukraine's LGBTQ community as they navigate the realities of war.Today is the 10th anniversary of the most divisive day in Britain's recent history, Brexit ...
... and care for one another … without the right to legal protection or recognition of their relationships." In recent years, hostility and hate speech against the LGBTQ+ communities in the two Eastern European countries have been on the rise, according to rights groups. On Saturday, anti-LGBTQ+ rallies were held in ...
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