• Activists worked for years on a Hong Kong same-sex partnership bill, but a tough vote remains

    Activists worked for years on a Hong Kong same-sex partnership bill, but a tough vote remains

    Sep 09, 2025 06:46 PM EDT

    ... people emerged to mark International Day Against Homophobia, he said. Pride parades,among other events, later took to the streets and gained support beyond the LGBTQ+ community. In 2009, the government introduced a cohabitation relationship definition in a revision to the domestic violence law, extending protection to same-sex couples ...

  • Opposition in Uganda questions deal to receive deportees from the U.S. like Abrego Garcia

    Opposition in Uganda questions deal to receive deportees from the U.S. like Abrego Garcia

    Aug 26, 2025 02:26 PM EDT

    ... fight the al-Qaida-linked rebels of al-Shabab. But his cachet in Washington declined in recent years. The Biden administration piled pressure over corruption, LGBTQ rights concerns and other rights abuses, with a growing list of Ugandan officials facing sanctions. In addition to Speaker Anita Among, a key ally ...

  • Rock The Rez brings musical empowerment and glam to Indigenous kids

    Rock The Rez brings musical empowerment and glam to Indigenous kids

    Aug 24, 2025 09:35 PM EDT

    ... Thompson (voice-over): April Matson, who was Sachongu Lakota and Atha Baskin has been the executive director here since 2019. April Matson: Indigenous two spirit LGBTQ girls. They're so overlooked and representation is low to none. And so this is our way of helping them to take up space ...

  • News Wrap: Trump greets law enforcement and National Guard troops patrolling D.C.

    News Wrap: Trump greets law enforcement and National Guard troops patrolling D.C.

    Aug 21, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    ... especially strident when it came to abortion and gay marriage. Dr. James Dobson: Because they both attack the family, both weaken the family, undermine it and compromise it. Lisa Desjardins: Dobson's views on LGBTQ individuals were extreme, pushing gay conversion therapy, an idea debunked by medical professionals as harmful.

  • Is empathy a sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can be

    Is empathy a sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can be

    Aug 21, 2025 03:13 PM EDT

    ... preached from the pulpit. During a sermon that went viral, Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde pleaded with the Republican president to "have mercy" on immigrants and LGBTQ+ people, prompting a conservative backlash. "Budde's attempt to 'speak truth to power' is a reminder that feminism is a cancer that enables the ...

  • James Dobson, influential founder of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, has died

    James Dobson, influential founder of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, has died

    Aug 21, 2025 02:56 PM EDT

    Dr. James Dobson, a politically influential child psychologist who started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents, founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was long a campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, died on Thursday. He was 89. His death was confirmed by ...

  • Scholar says Trump's efforts to reframe U.S. history is 'reminiscent of McCarthyism'

    Scholar says Trump's efforts to reframe U.S. history is 'reminiscent of McCarthyism'

    Aug 20, 2025 10:20 PM EDT

    ... of American democracy, not just slavery and racial segregation, but also the civil rights movement and the suffrage movement and the women's movement and LGBTQIA, how queer folks transformed this country, the disability rights movement, immigrants. Amna Nawaz: You know, the museums are just one piece of a larger ...

  • Target CEO Brian Cornell to step down as company struggles with poor sales numbers

    Target CEO Brian Cornell to step down as company struggles with poor sales numbers

    Aug 20, 2025 07:32 PM EDT

    ... greater betrayal because the company previously had held itself out as a champion of inclusion. In 2023, a customer backlash over the annual line of LGBTQ+ Pride merchandise Target carried also cut into sales. Many analysts think Target stumbled by losing sight of the winning mix of merchandising savvy and ...

  • Russian propaganda finds sympathetic ears among U.S. religious right

    Russian propaganda finds sympathetic ears among U.S. religious right

    Aug 19, 2025 10:30 PM EDT

    ... notorious American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Vladimir Solovyov, Russian TV Personality: They don't believe in God. How can they believe in God than before LGBTQ+, minus, divide on something? LGBT is (EXPLETIVE DELETED). It has nothing to do with God. Alex Jones, Host, "The Alex Jones Show": A lot ...

  • In Pope Leo XIV's first 100 days, a calm papacy that avoids controversy comes into focus

    In Pope Leo XIV's first 100 days, a calm papacy that avoids controversy comes into focus

    Aug 16, 2025 10:44 PM EDT

    ... million young people to Rome for a special Jubilee week this month. Ibarcena said Francis had confused young people like herself with his outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics and approval of blessings for same-sex couples. Such gestures went beyond what a pope was supposed to do and what the church ...