• New Mississippi law allows businesses to refuse LGBTQ people

    New Mississippi law allows businesses to refuse LGBTQ people

    Apr 05, 2016 06:23 PM EDT

    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 will reconsider law that criminalizes LGBTQ sexuality

    India's Supreme Court will reconsider law that criminalizes LGBTQ sexuality

    Feb 02, 2016 05:44 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • What racial, disability and LGBTQ justice have in common

    What racial, disability and LGBTQ justice have in common

    Oct 12, 2015 07:26 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Twitter Chat: How well does Hollywood handle LGBTQ characters and issues?

    Twitter Chat: How well does Hollywood handle LGBTQ characters and issues?

    Sep 30, 2015 08:24 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Photos: LGBTQ Africans express identity in '(Limit)less' ways

    Photos: LGBTQ Africans express identity in '(Limit)less' ways

    Aug 28, 2015 04:39 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • Photos: Why visibility matters to these LGBTQ youth

    Photos: Why visibility matters to these LGBTQ youth

    Jul 22, 2015 05:45 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • Backlash to Indiana’s religious freedom bill helped my LGBTQ students

    Backlash to Indiana’s religious freedom bill helped my LGBTQ students

    Apr 16, 2015 09:49 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out

    Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out

    Jun 27, 2026 05:06 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • News Wrap: Supreme Court sides with Trump administration in deportations case

    News Wrap: Supreme Court sides with Trump administration in deportations case

    Jun 23, 2026 10:45 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Tens of thousands march at Pride events in Romania and Bulgaria to demand equality

    Tens of thousands march at Pride events in Romania and Bulgaria to demand equality

    Jun 13, 2026 09:04 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...