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Trump Seems Unaware of Own Global Initiative to Decriminalize Homosexuality

President Trump seemed unaware on Wednesday of his administration’s own global initiative calling on nations to decriminalize homosexuality. Trump was apparently unaware the initiative during a gaggle with n...

Transgender Woman Deported from US Murdered in El Salvador

This article was written with Ernesto Valle. A transgender woman who the U.S. deported back to her native El Salvador died earlier this month after she was attacked outside the country’s capital. Asociac...

Switzerland Closer to Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

Switzerland has moved one step closer to legalizing same-sex marriage, according to PinkNews. The House of Representatives Legal Affairs Committee voted in favor of a draft law legalizing same-sex marriage. ...

Study Finds Children of Same-Sex Couples Perform Better in School than Those of Different-Sex Couples

A study done in the Netherlands found that same-sex couples’ children perform better in school than kids raised by heterosexual couples, reported the Washington Post. The Netherlands was the first country w...

Gay Father of Computer Science Alan Turing Named Greatest Person of the 20th Century

Alan Turing, a gay man and the father of computer science, was named BBC’s Greatest Person of the 20th Century, reported Gay Star News. https://twitter.com/BBC/status/1092905329694859265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%...

Group of 30 LGBTI Migrants Enter Mexico from Guatemala

A group of 30 LGBTI migrants entered Mexico from Guatemala on Friday. Estuardo Moscoso of Asociación Lambda, a Guatemala City-based advocacy group that provides assistance to LGBTI migrants, told the Washing...

Disney Will Hold First Official Pride Event at Disneyland Paris

Disney will host its first official Pride event at Disneyland Paris in June. Inside the Magic reports that “Magical Pride,” which kicks off Pride month on June 1, will include a “Magical March of Diversity P...

Mexico Border City Provides Assistance to LGBTI Migrants

The mayor of a Mexican border city that has provided assistance to LGBTI migrants says President Trump’s continued demands for a border wall is a political “tactic.” Jesús Antonio Pujol Irastorza told the Wa...

Twins Fathered by Two Dads are Born in UK

Married British husbands Simon and Graeme Berney-Edwards recently welcomed twins, one half of which they each biologically fathered, reported The Mirror. Twins Alexandra and Calder, fathered by Simon and Gra...

LGBTQ People in Chechnya Tortured, Raped with “Electric Shock Sticks”

A new crackdown on LGBTQ people of Chechnya, an autonomous republic subject to the Russian Federation, has led to arrests, detainments, torture, and killings, according to the Russian LGBT Network, Survivors...

Angola First Country to Legalize Gay Sex in 2019

Angola has legalized gay sex, getting rid of its “vices against nature” provision from a colonial-era penal code, becoming the first country in 2019 to do so, reported Human Rights Watch. The African country...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Trump Seems Unaware of Own Global Initiative to Decriminalize Homosexuality

Woman at Center of Closely-Watched Gay Rights Custody Battle, Sharon Bottoms Mattes, Dies at 48

Jussie Smollett Arrested for Filing False Police Report

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

‘Golden Girls’ Cruise Scheduled to Sail in 2020

Karl Lagerfeld Dies at 85

Actor Don Cheadle Sports Pro-Trans T-shirt on Saturday Night Live

Trump Seems Unaware of Own Global Initiative to Decriminalize Homosexuality

Transgender Woman Deported from US Murdered in El Salvador

Switzerland Closer to Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

Study Finds Children of Same-Sex Couples Perform Better in School than Those of Different-Sex Couples

Gay Father of Computer Science Alan Turing Named Greatest Person of the 20th Century

Group of 30 LGBTI Migrants Enter Mexico from Guatemala

Disney Will Hold First Official Pride Event at Disneyland Paris

Mexico Border City Provides Assistance to LGBTI Migrants

Twins Fathered by Two Dads are Born in UK

LGBTQ People in Chechnya Tortured, Raped with “Electric Shock Sticks”

Angola First Country to Legalize Gay Sex in 2019

Trump Seems Unaware of Own Global Initiative to Decriminalize Homosexuality

‘Golden Girls’ Cruise Scheduled to Sail in 2020

“The Vagina Monologues” Flaunts Diverse Cast and Raises Money for Local Women’s Charities

Woman at Center of Closely-Watched Gay Rights Custody Battle, Sharon Bottoms Mattes, Dies at 48

Jussie Smollett Arrested for Filing False Police Report

Transgender Troops, Trump Officials to Testify Before Congress on Military Ban

Key LGBT Groups Not Invited to Trump Summit on Decriminalizing Homosexuality

Dolly Parton Calls Pansexuality, Bisexuality, and Gender Fluidity “Fashionable”

Tennessee Becomes First Southern State to Protect Trans People from Hate Crimes

U.S. Airlines to Offer Non-Binary Gender Option on Tickets