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Impunity runs rampant in Mexico. Only 1% of all crimes committed were reported, investigated and resolved in 2022, according to a survey by National Institute of Statistics and Geography. The state authorities' hypothesis was quickly rejected by many in Mexico's LGBTQ+ community. Alejandro Brito, director of the LGBTQ+ rights ...
... community." Brito was echoed by thousands who gathered in the heart of Mexico City lighting candles over photos of Baena and other victims of anti-LGBTQ+ violence. They shouted "Justice" and "We won't stay silent" and demanded a thorough investigation into the deaths. Among them was Nish López, who ...
... cake celebrating a gender transition. The announcement by the Colorado Supreme Court is the latest development in the yearslong legal saga involving Jack Phillips and LGBTQ+ rights. Phillips won a partial victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake ...
... members since 1980 were forced out of the military for their sexual orientation, according to Department of Defense data. WATCH: How the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ hate and violence is impacting the community More than 2,000 of those service members received general, other than honorable, or unknown discharge characterizations ...
... of their sexual identity or orientation. This all strains the credibility of the department,” he added. Helen Kennedy, the executive director of Egale Canada, an LGBTQ+ rights group in Toronto, commended the Canadian government for putting out the advisory. “There are 500 anti-LGBTQ pieces of legislation making their way ...
Geoff Bennett: As you mentioned, Laura Ann Carleton, she was not a member of the LGBTQ community. She was an ally. And she was defending her Pride flags in front of her store the night that she was shot. And O'Shea Sibley, 28 years old, that is -- was with ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A group of drag performers and LGBTQ+ rights advocates have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a new Texas law that expands what is considered an illegal public performance of sexual conduct, arguing it is meant to target drag shows and could also criminalize ballet and ...
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednesday for the treatment of gay veterans, saying that a previous ban on LGBTQ+ people serving in the U.K. military was “an appalling failure of the British state.” The apology came after an independent review published Wednesday estimated that hundreds ...
... mirroring controversies that have led to splits in other mainline Protestant denominations. United Methodist legislative bodies, known as general conferences, have repeatedly reinforced bans on LGBTQ marriage and ordination, on the strength of coalitions of conservatives in U.S. and overseas churches. But amid increased defiance of those bans in ...
North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a trio of bills aimed at LGBTQ+ youth that would restrict gender-affirming health care and sports participation for transgender minors and limit classroom instruction about gender identity and sexuality.
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