Voice of America (VOA) announced Wednesday that a 20-something gay man has filed a lawsuit against a civil affairs bureau in Hunan province. “Sun Wenlin, 26, filed a lawsuit December 16 against the Furong district civil affairs bureau in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in central China. His lawsuit challenged the bureau’s refusal to…
Alabama’s chief justice, Roy Moore, has ordered his state’s probate judges to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples because he does not believe that the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision applies to Alabama. Claiming the Supreme Court did not specifically address Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage in the historic Obergefell v. Hodges case, Moore…
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – The first large, controlled study of health disparities between clinically diagnosed transgender and non-transgender patients—based on the medical records of more than 5,000 patients treated in the Veterans Health Administration—showed that transgender veterans had a significantly greater prevalence of numerous psychiatric and medical conditions. The specific disorders examined and the implications…
Ben Carson may have re-invigorated his presidential campaign with firings and hirings but his anti-LGBT stance shows no signs of abating. During an interview with CNN Carson’s new campaign chair, retired Major Gen. Robert F. Dees, said he wanted to restrict the role of women in the military and bring back the days of “Don’t Ask,…
San Diego Police identified Joshua Adam Sisson, 30, as the man whom an officer shot to death Jan. 1 after he held a large kitchen knife to the throat of his boyfriend in Hillcrest. Someone called 911 after they heard arguing between Sisson and another man in an apartment in the 500 block of Lewis…
WASHINGTON, DC – A federal judge day dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Fourth Corner Credit Union against the Federal Reserve in hopes of providing banking services to the legal cannabis industry. In his ruling, Judge R. Brooke Jackson said Congress must provide the answer, stating, “I regard the [cannabis banking] situation as untenable and…
Santa Clara County, the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area region, and one of the most affluent counties in the United States has filled two full-time positions for its newly-created Office of LGBTQ Affairs. The county is only the third local government agency—and the first county in the nation—to have an office…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National LGBTQ Task Force has joined a coalition of LGBTQ, racial justice, and health equity organizations in filing an amicus brief in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down draconian restrictions on abortion providers enacted by the State of Texas in 2013. If the restrictions are upheld, it…
2016 is not shaping up to be a good year for virulently anti-gay pastor Scott Lively as he is facing a lawsuit by LGBT advocacy group Sexual Minorities Uganda because of his anti-gay activities in that country, and he is apparently out of money. Right Wing Watch reported that Lively ended 2015 by publishing a…
LONDON — Ride share company Uber has suspended one of its London drivers for attempting to eject a lesbian couple from his car for kissing. PinkNews reported that one of the women tweeted Uber about the driver’s behavior asking the company to, “… please do advise how you would deal with this?” An Uber spokesperson…
