by admin | Apr 30, 2020 | Equality, Featured, LGBTQ, Transgender
In 2010, Victor Orbán was made Prime Minister of Hungary for the second time when his party, Fidesz, the national conservative party of Hungary won the major of the the Parliament. Fidesz is a party based on pro-European and anti-immigrant platforms, closely aligned...
by admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Civil Rights, Featured, LGBTQ, News
On April 11th, Ralph Northam, the Democrat governor of Virginia, signed a bill into law which will expand protections for LGBTQ Virginians. Under the existing law, which stands until the new one takes effect on July 1st, 2020, it is legal to discriminate against...
by admin | Apr 23, 2020 | Featured, homophobia, LGBTQ, News, Politics
Among thousands of others, four men sought safety in the United States from persecution in their home countries. All four men, who remain anonymous, are gay men with HIV diagnoses. Arriving on our shores, all four were placed in ICE detention. Two in the Richwood...
by admin | Apr 17, 2020 | Bisexual, Equality, Featured, gay, LGBTQ, News, Power LGBT
Back in 1983, in response to the height of the AIDS crisis, the federal government applied a lifetime ban on blood donations by any man who had sex with another man, regardless of either partner’s tested status. Very recently, in 2015, that ban was shortened...
by admin | Apr 10, 2020 | Equality, Featured, International, LGBTQ, Politics, Power LGBT
Like nearly all of the former British colonies, Singapore inherited their colonizer’s anti-sodomy laws. Unlike many, they have actively maintained those laws into the present. Since 2007, political parties in the country have been seeking decriminalization. Some...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | Equality, Featured, News, Politics, Power LGBT
The entire world is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 190 countries have declared more than 330,000 identified cases. Its influence is currently part of the human condition, unaware of borders or nationalities or politics. And sanctions based on those things,...
by admin | Apr 2, 2020 | Featured, homeless, News, Politics
A Trump administration rule change affecting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was announced in December 2019 and set to trigger on April 1st. It would have changed the eligibility rules for the program and made 700,000 people lose their benefits....
by admin | Mar 30, 2020 | Equality, Featured, International, Israel, LGBT, LGBTQ, News, Power LGBT
The Middle East is not an area known for progress in LGBT rights, but Israel is several steps ahead of its neighbors. The State of Israel inherited Great Britain’s Buggery Act of 1533, a mandate against same-sex sexual activity, when the country was formed in...
by admin | Mar 25, 2020 | Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, gay, LGBT, LGBT community, LGBTQ, LGBTQ Youth, Power LGBT
In the fall of 2019, two teachers at John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien, Washington let their employer know that they’d each gotten engaged to their respective partners over the summer. Michelle Beattie, who taught health and coached soccer, and...
by admin | Mar 18, 2020 | Equality, Human Rights
Lucio Delgado was brought to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 17. He was blind then, and he’s blind today. He uses a cane for mobility and cannot see anything at all. He was born without sight. Now 23, he tried to take the test for U.S. Citizenship in May, 2019....
