The ACLU have just released their latest Anti-LGBT Legislative Roundup which spotlights key anti-LGBT legislation to watch and informs of efforts aimed at restricting the rights of LGBT people. You can find all of the bills at www.aclu.org/LGBTbills. A few noteworthy bills are highlighted below: “State legislatures are at it again, targeting LGBT people and…
President Trump has appointed one of the nation’s most prominent anti-LGBTQ leaders, Jerry Falwell Jr., to the Task Force on Higher Education. Falwell Jr. is currently the president of Liberty University. The school prohibits “homosexual behavior” and has hosted several anti-LGBTQ events, including those that promote the dangerous, unscientific practices of “conversion therapy.” “Jerry Falwell…
LGBT people in America face discrimination in their daily lives. A majority of states allow discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. While there are more states every day that strive to pass laws to protect their citizens from discrimination, many legislatures sponsor bills that invoke religion, pre-empt local protections, and target transgender people to…
One of the nation’s most prominent anti-LGBTQ leaders, Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, has met with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss a potential position in his Administration’s Department of Education. Falwell was one of Trump’s earliest and most outspoken Religious Right supporters, reported Right Wing Watch. He appeared in Trump campaign ads, hosted…
GENEVA — A 5-member UN human rights committee announced that a Thai law professor is its choice to be the UN’s first monitor against anti-gay violence, yet an Egyptian diplomat on the panel is boycotting the mandate. In a report circulated by the president of the UN human rights council (UNHRC), its Consultative Group—comprised of…
NEW YORK — The United Nations human rights office has expressed concern over recent developments in Malawi, after the spokesperson of one of the country’s main political parties recently called for gay and lesbian people to be killed, describing them as “worse than dogs.” The spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for…
Rick Perry has become the first Republican to quit the race for president. According to ABC News the former Texas governor told the Eagle Forum in St. Louis, Missouri Friday afternoon that he is suspending his presidential campaign, making him the first 2016 presidential candidate to do so. “We have a tremendous field – the…
Today, YouTube content creator Raymond Braun spoke with Dalton Maldonado about his recent exclusion from his high school yearbook in rural Kentucky for being gay. Dalton attends Betsy Layne High School where he’ll be starting as senior point guard for the boys’ basketball team this coming year. Dalton was intentionally excluded from the yearbook spread…
An openly gay high school basketball player has been omitted from a yearbook tribute to the team. Outsports reported that Betsy Layne High School in rural Kentucky this year had a two-page yearbook spread that featured all of the seniors on the boys basketball team except Dalton Maldonado, the team’s starting point guard who came out…
The Republican National Committee is set to vote during its summer meeting on resolutions against same-sex marriage and in favor of anti-gay sex education in schools. The Washington Blade reported that they had obtained text of two proposed anti-gay resolutions and a third relatively pro-gay counter-proposal on the table for discussion during the upcoming meeting…
