Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas received formal approval from the city's Landmark Commission last week after officials, members, and volunteers painted the Late Gothic Revival building's staircase the colors of the rainbow in October. The building has local landmark status, and it's listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Doughty's introduction set an emotional register, describing a "fraught moment" marked by budget cuts, hostile federal actions, and escalating legal threats to the broader LGBTQ community. "We're seeing the weaponization of every part of the federal government," Doughty said. "I personally used to avoid the use of the word 'weaponization' because I always thought that it sounded often overstated. Now it is not overstated."
Men born in the 2000s are far more likely to hold conservative views on LGBTQ+ rights compared to previous generations and women of the same age, a study has suggested. Polling from the Pew Research Center found that men aged 24 and under are far more likely to oppose same-sex marriage and even homosexuality generally than those born between the 1980s and 1990s.
Texas A&M University last week banned a philosophy professor from teaching about Plato's Symposium because it's too gay, and, while obviously philosophy classes should be allowed to teach about Plato and state lawmakers and administrators shouldn't be interfering in curricula... they are right that the specific texts that they banned are pretty gay. If the legislators' and administrators' goal is to make LGBTQ+ people feel more isolated and alone as a way of getting them to conform and pretend to be cisgender and heterosexual,
According to The Moscow Times, independent Russian-language news outlet first reported on the charges against streamers, including Kinopoisk, Wink, Ivi, Amediteka, 24TV, Digital Television, and Beeline TV, earlier this week. Public records reportedly did not specify the content on the platforms that allegedly violates the law. But as The Moscow Times notes, at least one executive, Digital Television program director Alexei Bernat, has been charged with "subjecting" minors to "LGBTQ+ propaganda."
A gay couple in Washington, D.C. is stuck in limbo after ICE detained one husband, a Panamanian immigrant, during what had long been treated as a routine immigration check-in. Plus, Renee Good's family has retained the same law firm as George Floyd's to launch a civil investigation into her killing, and Rep. Robin Kelly has filed articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, saying she's led a "reign of terror."
Eight months later, though, a six-justice majority of the court held that federal employment protections indeed protect trans people in the workplace. The basic logic of Justice Neil Gorsuch's majority opinion in Bostock, which Chief Justice John Roberts and the four liberals joined, is that if an employer treats a transgender man differently than it would treat a man assigned male at birth, the workplace is treating that trans man differently "because of sex."
If your travel plans in the near future involve making your way to Russia, the U.S. State Department has some information they would like to share with you. More specifically, they have some information that they would like to share with you in order to convince you not to go. In late December, the agency issued its highest possible warning against visiting the country in question. Or, as the agency's website bluntly declares: "Do not travel to Russia for any reason."
As the Nashville Banner reports, state Rep. Gino Bulso (R) filed three anti-LGBTQ+ bills this week, two of which challenge the Supreme Court's decisions establishing the rights of same-sex couples to legally marry and that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects U.S. employees from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Bulso went so far as to title his House Bill 1472 the "Banning Bostock Act." The bill, according to the Banner, would explicitly exclude sexual orientation and gender identity from Tennessee's definition of sex-based discrimination, in defiance of the Supreme Court's 2020 decision.
"Until the LGBTQ+ community distances itself from all forms of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism, our allies will continue to fall away, and we will remain defenceless in the face of attack," she wrote. "Zionists have always been at the core of LGBTQ+ progress, from Magnus Hirschfield to Elizabeth Taylor, from Larry Kramer to [Edith] Windsor. Their Zionism sprung from their humanitarianism, as did their LGBTQ+ activism."
directly lying to the parent, preventing the parent from accessing educational records of the child, or using a different set of preferred pronouns/names when speaking with the parents than is being used at school
2025 saw massive changes in a lot of domains - economic policy, technological development, international relations... and LGBTQ+ rights issues. There was a sea of difference between the policy agendas of the previous and current presidents, and Donald Trump wasted no time, often skirting the law, in implementing his policy vision. LGBTQ+ people saw regression in many policy areas, but there were also some signs of cultural progress.
"The police concluded their investigation against me in connection with the Budapest Pride march in June with a recommendation to press charges," he said in a video posted to Facebook. "They accuse me of violating the [new law on] freedom of assembly, which is completely absurd." Karácsony approved the Pride event and took to the streets with hundreds of thousands of marchers in defiance of the ban. Celebrants anointed Orbán "King of European Pride."
"Project 2025 was an effort of more than 100 organizations convened by Heritage to prepare for the next conservative administration," a Heritage spokesperson told "That administration is now in office, so all policy and personnel decisions are up to the president and his team. ... There is no Project 2026 and will not be, regardless of what leftist lunatics make up on BlueSky."
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Campaigners say the apology is in contrast to the stance of the chief constable of Greater Manchester police (GMP), Stephen Watson, who earlier this year declined to apologise on behalf of his force, saying that do so could be seen as superficial and merely performative. Burnham's formal apology is made in a letter to the campaigner Peter Tatchell, who has been seeking apologies for the past homophobic persecution of LGBTQ+ people by UK police forces.
Desperate to focus on anything other than competently running a railroad, Amtrak made news this fall by arresting a couple hundred men for "public lewdness" in Penn Station, the implication being that they were cruising the bathrooms there for sex. This caused a minor uproar. New York's Rep. Jerry Nadler sent a letter demanding Amtrak, "Cease ... targeting members of the LGBTQ community ... on the basis of their perceived sexual orientation."
Question One Kambree Nelson is ... a) a federal judge, who called legal arguments by the Trump Justice Department in favor of ousting transgender service members "soaked in animus and dripping with pretext." b) a "new media reporter" in the White House press gallery who believed the Democrats had hidden, or maybe destroyed, the moon. c) a crazy mother who sent a death threat to her kid's teacher after the teacher initiated a project that included the rainbow flag.
"They would rather have us focus in and debate a misunderstood and vulnerable one percent of the population," she said during a press scrum outside the Capitol with out Rep. Julie Johnson (D-TX) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), "instead of focusing in on the fact that they are raiding everyone's health care in order to pay for tax breaks for the wealthiest one percent."
Arlington Pride, hosted by the HELP Center for LGBTQ+ Health, announced on Friday that it is suspending next year's event in light of the city council's recent vote to remove "gender identity and expression" and "sexual orientation" as protected characteristics from the local antidiscrimination ordinance. CEO DeeJay Johannessen said that the decision was made in the name of safety.
For decades, libraries served as a safe haven for many queer and marginalized youths in eastern Texas, says former county library director Rhea Young. Unlike the school cafeteria, the library was a space where they could explore and find acceptance in who they wanted to be. There were books where they can find characters like them, and realize it's okay to be who they are, Young said. There needs to be more places like that, not fewer.
Hungarian Parliament passed a constitutional amendment in April, in a vote of 140-21 along party lines, that makes it an offense to hold or attend events that violate Hungary's so-called "child protection" law. Enacted in 2021, the law prohibits the "depiction or promotion" of homosexuality to minors. The law also allows the government to use facial recognition technology to identify those who attend prohibited events, with those found in violations facing fines of up to 200,000 Hungarian forints ($546).
Most recently, in 2019, singer Ellie Goulding threatened to pull out of her performance at the NFL's Thanksgiving Day halftime show - intended to coincide with its annual holiday Red Kettle Campaign - over the company's homophobic track record. That same year, Chick-fil-A ended their donations with the charity, leading it to insist that it's working to atone its anti-LGTBQ+ past.
The Arlington City Council voted 5-4 Tuesday in favor of a revised ordinance that removes "gender identity and expression" and "sexual orientation" as protected characteristics from the city's anti-discrimination policy. Until now, the rule had shielded LGBTQ+ people against "any direct or indirect exclusion, distinction, segregation, limitation, refusal, denial, or other differentiation in the treatment of a person or persons" in employment, housing, health care, and beyond.
As the local organising committee, SeattleFWC26's role is to prepare our city to host the matches and manage the city experience outside of Seattle Stadium, said Hana Tedesse, the vice-president of communications for Seattle Fifa World Cup 2026. SeattleFWC26 is moving forward as planned with our community programming outside the stadium during Pride weekend and throughout the tournament, partnering with LGBTQ+ leaders, artists and business owners to elevate existing Pride celebrations across Washington.
"I have to be honest with you, I bear some responsibility for this because it was me, 10 years ago - mainstreaming homosexuality in the Republican Party is the great regret of my life, more so than anything I've done to my own soul, which is a lot," he said. "I was not intending to give birth to this huge generation of gay Republicans who now think it's openly fine to traffic in babies and to be a gay Republican, and I feel a great deal of responsibility for that. I hate myself for that a little bit."
