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Added on: 11/22/2020

Native American LGBT+ youth are at a terrifyingly high risk of suicide: ‘There’s an urgent need to de-colonise systems’

11/22/2020

New research from the Trevor Project shows that LGBT+ youth from American Indian and Alaskan Native backgrounds are 2.5 times more likely to report a suicide attempt…

Global News

Added on: 11/22/2020

Federal appeals court strikes down ‘conversion therapy’ bans in Florida

11/21/2020

A divided federal appeals court Friday struck down measures passed in Palm Beach County and the city of Boca Raton that blocked the controversial practice known as…

Global News

Added on: 11/21/2020

Intersex lesbian born with testicles and a vagina insists ‘people like me are not freaks’

11/20/2020

Courtney Skaggs, 29, is genetically male but was also born with a clitoris. However, her body rejected its male hormones and she now lives as an ‘intersex…

Global News

Added on: 11/21/2020

Trump Judges Strike Down Bans On LGBTQ ‘Conversion Therapy’

11/20/2020

A federal appeals court struck down Friday local ordinances prohibiting licensed therapists from engaging in “conversion therapy” practices that aim to change a minor’s sexual orientation or…

Global News

Added on: 11/19/2020

Lesbian political powerhouse Karine Jean-Pierre is the “top candidate” to be Biden’s press secretary

1/18/2020

Several journalists are reporting that Joe Biden is considering lesbian Democratic advisor Karine Jean-Pierre to be the public face of the White House next year. If she…

World Voices

Added on: 11/19/2020

Pedro Julio Serrano – Puerto Rico Para Tod@s

Iván López-Justiniano

Alturi Contributor

Hear the Interview in Spanish How did you get involved in activism? Well, I actually did not start being an activist, I started as a…

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Added on: 11/18/2020

First NYC housing complex bought by and for the LGBTQ+ community opens

11/17/2020

New York City’s first LGBTQ+ owned and run housing complex opened in Queens on Friday, 30 years after the owner said she first conceived the idea. Ceyenne…

Global News

Added on: 11/16/2020

How teens made Yukon one of the only places in Canada to ban conversion therapy

11/15/2020

Aiden Falkenberg was in Grade 11 when they found out conversion therapy was still legal in Canada. They were with a friend, Mercedes Bacon-Traplin, when the two…

Global News

Added on: 11/14/2020

Justice Alito takes aim at gay marriage in ‘politically charged speech’

11/13/2020

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito criticized same-sex marriage as a harbinger of the erosion of free speech in America, drawing renewed concern from LGBTQ advocates about the…

Global News

Added on: 11/10/2020

Rainbow Railroad launches #60in60 campaign to help save at-risk LGBTQ people

11/10/2020

Rainbow Railroad, the Canadian-based international organization that helps LGBTQI people around the globe escape violence and persecution, has launched its #60in60 campaign, which aims to raise $600,000…

Global News

Added on: 11/09/2020

Equality Act hangs in the balance as Democrats falter in Senate races

11/08/2020

On May 14, 1974, Rep. Bella Abzug, a feminist icon in women’s rights movement, introduced one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation ever ignored….

Global News

Added on: 11/09/2020

Conservative Mexican State Puebla Legalized Gay Marriage

11/08/2020

Congratulations to the gay citizens of Puebla. According to the Yucatan Times, the Mexican state of Puebla has just legalized gay marriage. The state Congress approved an…

Global News

Added on: 11/08/2020

LGBT+ rights groups hope Biden win helps marginalised communities

11/7/2020

Joe Biden’s win in the U.S. presidential election will help give a voice to marginalised LGBT+ communities, rights groups said on Saturday, after he promised to overturn…

Global News

Added on: 11/07/2020

She was fired by the sheriff for being a lesbian. So, she ran for his job and beat him.

11/05/2020

It all began three years ago when Charmaine McGuffey was fired from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department by Sheriff Jim Neil. McGuffey claims it happened because she…

Global News

Added on: 11/05/2020

2020 election is a ‘seismic’ shift for LGBT+ representation in politics

11/04/2020

As the US election results pour in, the LGBT+ community is celebrating a significant milestone in the political landscape. In Delaware, Sarah McBride was elected to the…

Global News

Added on: 11/05/2020

Are the Olympics ‘dangerous’ for LGBTQ people? One group says they are

11/04/2020

Are the Olympic Games a net-positive or net-negative for the LGBTQ community? On the one hand, no sports event regularly features more out LGBTQ athletes, elevating their…

Global News

Added on: 11/05/2020

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices lean toward Catholic agency in LGBT dispute

11/04/2020

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to religious rights claims against Philadelphia brought by a Catholic Church-affiliated agency after the city refused to use…

Global News

Added on: 11/04/2020

Supreme Court takes up religious freedom, anti-gay discrimination laws in Philadelphia foster care case

11/03/2020

A legal battle over the reach of religious freedom returns to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, requiring the justices to consider whether the Constitution allows a religious…

Global News

Added on: 11/04/2020

Conservative Mexican state of Puebla legalizes same-sex marriage

11/03/2020

The Congress of the Mexican state of Puebla voted to legalize same-sex marriages by an overwhelming majority on Tuesday, marking a step forward for LGBT rights in…

Global News

Added on: 11/02/2020

New Zealand’s new deputy leader first gay man to hold role

11/01/2020

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s new Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson will be the country’s first openly gay man to hold the role and is…

Global News

Added on: 11/02/2020

16 LGBTQ+ Candidates to Watch on Election Night

11/02/2020

All eyes are on whether voters will oust Donald Trump this week and whether Democrats can claw back their majority in the Senate. There are also thousands…

Global News

Added on: 10/31/2020

De Blasio Team Open but Noncommital to Intersex Outreach Bill

10/30/2020

Intersex advocates who joined a City Council hearing on October 28 made impassioned pleas in favor of a bill to establish an educational and outreach campaign directed…

Global News

Added on: 10/30/2020

A mother told Biden about her transgender child. Then came the attacks.

10/29/2020

In Joe Biden’s town hall earlier this month, one of the questions came from a woman named Mieke Haeck, a 42-year-old physical therapist from State College, Pa….

Global News

Added on: 10/29/2020

CHRISTIAN GROUP SUING UK VENUES FOR AXING ANTI-LGBTQ PREACHER FRANKLIN GRAHAM’S EVENTS

10/28/2020

An evangelical Christian group is reportedly suing a string of UK entertainment venues and city councils after they axed public appearances by anti-LGBTQ preacher Franklin Graham. The…

Global News

Added on: 10/29/2020

Advocates fear Barrett will strip away gay rights. It could begin next week.

10/29/2020

Amy Coney Barrett has been fueling the fears of LGBTQ advocacy groups since President Donald Trump first nominated her to the federal bench in 2017. Now, with…

Global News

Added on: 10/28/2020

In conservative Mexico, ‘Muxes’ soccer team tackles outdated LGBT stereotypes

10/27/2020

A soccer team in Mexico’s capital is shooting for greater inclusion for the LGBT community by relying on the widespread love of Latin America’s most popular sport….

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Added on: 10/28/2020

Trump-linked groups spending millions campaigning against LGBT and women’s rights in Europe

10/27/2020

Right-wing US groups, some with links to Donald Trump, are spending millions of pounds campaigning against LGBT and women’s rights in Europe, it has been revealed An…

Global News

Added on: 10/27/2020

Intersex Activists Push Hospitals to Ditch Nonconsensual Surgeries on Children

10/26/2020

When Marissa Adams was a toddler, she underwent surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital to make her genitalia look more like a doctor’s idea of “normal.” Like as…

Global News

Added on: 10/27/2020

The Supreme Court’s next major case starts the day after the election

10/26/2020

With Amy Coney Barrett poised to become the next Supreme Court justice, many Americans are wondering what — if anything — the outcome of the upcoming presidential…

Global News

Added on: 10/26/2020

Media coverage of transgender issues is ‘catalyst’ in young people seeking support

10/25/2020

Media coverage of trans issues has been linked to an increase in the number of young people seeking support at specialist gender clinics, a landmark study has…