This Wednesday, Channel 4, England’s commercially funded but publicly owned television station, plans on airing a documentary entitled Hunted. As if the title needs explanation, the special, produced with an alarming degree of willingness on behalf of many of the participants, catalogs the growing tolerance the Russian people are demonstrating toward groups like Parents of Russia…
Media Matters for America’s latest piece reveals how The Daily Caller mocked and objectified transgender students in its report on a recent legal victory for transgender youth. This report also featured the long-debunked claim that transgender students will engage in inappropriate behavior if they’re allowed to use restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity….
Social Security has published new instructions that allow the agency to process some Supplemental Security Income (SSI) claims by individuals who are in a same-sex marriage. These instructions come in response to last year’s Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Windsor which found Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. SSI is a program…
A harrowing 65-page report made public this week by Human Rights Watch paints a terrifying picture of police corruption aimed squarely at gay men in this small, landlocked Asian nation of 5.5 million people. Entitled They Said We Deserved This: Police Violence Against Gay and Bisexual Men in Kyrgyzstan, the report details a pattern of physical,…
In what the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) are calling ‘a step backward’ for human rights, the Sultan of Brunei has announced that a series of laws that were formulated in 2013 are set to be enacted in April, 2014. The laws, which criminalize everything from adultery to same-sex relations, include punishments ranging from public…
Leave it to the Family Research Council (FRC), one of America’s most ravenously anti-gay organizations, to draw conclusions about same-sex households where none exist. In a report published by Harvard, which examines upward mobility among children raised in single-family households versus dual-family households, a team of social scientists have concluded that “children growing up in…
