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Added on: 06/13/2021
They’ve spent months in limbo, anxiously waiting to figure out how they would be able to celebrate Pride Month 2021. They could emerge from more than a…

Global News

Added on: 06/12/2021
6/11/21
LGBTQ advocates are criticizing the Justice Department for a court filing in which the DOJ wrote it would “vigorously” defend a religious exemption that allows federally funded…

World Voices

Added on: 06/11/2021
Savita Sukul
Alturi Contributor
“I think I started advocating the moment I was born, I just didn’t have the language,” Eli says his focus for advocacy is currently very specific to…

Global News

Added on: 06/10/2021
06/08/2021
A gay Winnipeg couple have lost their fight to have their marriage of nearly five decades registered by the province of Manitoba. Chris Vogel and Richard North…

Global News

Added on: 06/08/2021
06/07/2021
“Hope in a Box ultimately wants to make LGBTQ-inclusive education the norm, rather than the exception in every single public school in this country,” said founder and…

Global News

Added on: 06/07/2021
06/06/2021
The Pentagon confirmed Friday it will not allow rainbow pride flags to fly at military facilities in celebration of Pride Month. That fell in line with the…

Global News

Added on: 06/06/2021
Hundreds of Catholics stepped forward to bless LGBT+ people during a virtual service in response to the Vatican’s ban on blessings for same-sex couples. The live-streamed event…

Global News

Added on: 06/06/2021
6/5/21
The Pentagon said on Friday that it would not make an exception to allow U.S. military installations to fly rainbow pride flags in June, keeping a policy…

Global News

Added on: 06/05/2021
A transgender woman, Mila García, was 12 years old when she started conversion therapy in Puerto Rico. Her parents found a love letter she had exchanged with…

Global News

Added on: 06/05/2021
Several groups in the D.C. area are raising awareness about what it means to be LGBTQ and Asian American. “We exist in so many different ways, and…

Global News

Added on: 06/04/2021
06/02/2021
For years, transgender activist Roshell Terranova protested in the streets and knocked on the doors of Mexico’s Congress to make the demands of the country’s LGBTQ community…

Global News

Added on: 06/03/2021
05/02/2021
It could be viewed as a dramatic demonstration of the concept of karma: a group of young boaters hurling homophobic abuse towards another vessel flying gay pride…

Global News

Added on: 06/02/2021
06/01/2021
In 1989, when The New Republic published Andrew Sullivan’s “Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage,” few L.G.B.T.Q. activists took the proposition seriously. They…

Global News

Added on: 06/01/2021
05/31/2021
The Supreme Court is expected to release a decision in the coming days that could provide the first glimpses of how its 6-3 conservative majority will shape…

Global News

Added on: 05/31/2021
05/30/2021
The Walt Disney Company has been put on notice by communications regulators in Russia over a short film that is available on the conglomerate’s Disney Plus streaming…

Global News

Added on: 05/30/2021
05/27/2021
Are you a he or a she? A they or a ze? If you’re on Instagram, you can now choose from a list of more than 10…

Global News

Added on: 05/30/2021
05/29/2021
The 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn, the famed gay bar in New York City, was no different than many others before it. For decades, before…

Global News

Added on: 05/30/2021
05/29/2021
A Christian management company is suing for the right to discriminate against workers for being members of the LGBT+ community, having sex and using Grindr. In June…

Global News

Added on: 05/28/2021
05/27/2021
Nearly five months after joining a violent mob in storming the U.S. Capitol building in a failed bid to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election,…

Global News

Added on: 05/28/2021
05/27/2021
A lawsuit has been filed against a candidate running for Tijuana’s city council for pretending to be a member of the LGBT community. The legal action was…

Global News

Added on: 05/27/2021
05/26/2021
The world’s largest game streaming service Twitch has said that players will be able to add a transgender label to their videos – a move the company…

Global News

Added on: 05/27/2021
05/26/2021
Americans strongly support trans service members being in the military — even as they say trans athletes should compete in sports according to the sex listed on…

Global News

Added on: 05/23/2021
5/22/21
Last week, the US Army released a saccharine new recruitment video that uses the tale of a queer family to tug at your heartstrings. Titled “The Calling”,…

Global News

Added on: 05/20/2021
05/18/2021
When our plane from Taiwan touched down at LAX in 1975, my mother, my father, my two older brothers and I stepped into the hot, dry sunshine…

Global News

Added on: 05/19/2021
05/18/2021
As conservative states seek to limit transgender rights in the United States, double Grammy Award-nominated singer Rufus Wainwright said Americans should not forget the hardships faced by…

Global News

Added on: 05/16/2021
5/15/21
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We’re going to stick with immigration for a few more minutes. The U.S.-Mexico border has been closed to most migrants during the pandemic, including…

Global News

Added on: 05/16/2021
5/15/21
Police will be banned from participating in NYC Pride events, including its signature LGBTQ march, until 2025, the organization announced Saturday. NYC Pride is also working to…

Global News

Added on: 05/15/2021
5/14/21
Cardinal Red Bird has more than one story about the verbal abuse he listened to in his on-and-off stays on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central…

Global News

Added on: 05/14/2021
The US Army has released a new animated recruitment campaign featuring five diverse soldiers and an LGBT+ family in the hopes of appealing to new young audiences….

Global News

Added on: 05/13/2021
05/13/2021
A former foster child adopted by two fathers after being abandoned for his sexuality has urged Congress not to stand in the way of loving LGBT+ families…