Nigerian MultiChoice media has chosen to pull the popular transgendered docu-series "I Am Cait" from the air after receiving complaints from parents in Nigeria.
No doubt I'm biased when it comes to former President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter. I think he's one of the greatest men I've ever had the honor to meet. And since we're...
The Minnesota Senate voted to legalize gay marriage today after the House of Representatives passed the measure on Thursday May 9th, 2013. ?The measure passed 37 - 30 and now goes to Governor Mark Dayton...
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Last weekend, we heard about the terrible events in Orlando at the Pulse nightclub where 50 people lost their lives, and the entire LGBT community is mourning the loss of their friends. This may seem like...
There are a couple of prerequisites if you want to be a supporter of Donald Trump: You have to be an idiot. You must be willing to hate others on command. You need to be...
Marco Rubio
On Sunday morning, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history took place in Orlando inside the Pulse LGBT nightclub claiming the lives of 50 innocent people. Florida's soon to be ex-Senator, Marco Rubio joined his...
Last week, I wrote a story about a transgender woman who was attacked on the NYC subway. Pearl Love, a Taiwanese transgender woman, was verbally then physically attacked on the subway. This woman was screaming obscenities...
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda (from James McCarthy's Flickr)
Earlier this year, Uganda enacted one of the most repressive laws against homosexuality in the world. However, that law, the "Anti-Homosexuality Act," is dead for now, after Uganda's Constitutional Court ruled it had not been...
Arno Michaelis, in an interview with the website the Trace, is warning that he believes there will be extreme acts of violence in the near future due to the Supreme Court ruling which legalized same-sex marriage across...
Despite a court ruling permitting same-sex couples to marry in Wisconsin, the state's Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen remains steadfastly opposed to granting marriage certificates for gay and lesbian couples. The Attorney General insists...
Even with the Supreme Court finally ruling in favor of marriage equality, there's still a lot to do in order to stop discrimination against LGBT people. We got a pretty loud reminder of this from...
Once again Kentucky is drawing attention for its impotent attempts to circumvent the constitutional ruling on marriage equality. In an effort that seems to be lifted from an elementary schoolyard, State Rep. Joseph M. Fischer...
It may not seem like it, but there was actually some very good news from the Supreme Court yesterday. Early yesterday morning, the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to California's ban on the...
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So bigoted and misguided Kentucky clerk Kim Davis is now in jail after refusing to follow the LAW OF THE LAND and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The religious right is, of course, in an...
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On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 the unthinkable happened. America elected perhaps the most ignorant, bigoted, misogynistic pig to the highest office in the country. Donald Trump was Inaugurated on January 21, 2017, and two huge...
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We are living in very disturbing times it seems -- another day, another hate crime. On Monday 6th March someone in a truck drove past the Dennis R. Neil Equality Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma and fired thirteen shots into...
Mike Heath (right), leader of the effort to shred LGBT rights in Maine (image from Heath's Facebook)
When you think of wingnuts in Maine, most of us think of Paul LePage. But apparently there's a crew that's even crazier than LePage. A group of hyperfundie Christians wants to shred Maine's civil rights...
Lately, we have been bombarded with conservative fear-mongering over transgender people using public restrooms, especially in North Carolina. Now, the bathroom wars have begun and they are spreading. There was already a case of a woman...
NC State Representative Billy Richardson (image from his campaign Facebook)
Two weeks ago, the Republican-dominated North Carolina General Assembly rammed through a monstrous and blatantly unconstitutional law that requires transgender people to use the public restroom corresponding with the gender on their birth certificate. Now, one...
Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Charlotte (image courtesy church's Facebook)
Ever since North Carolina passed its outrageously discriminatory and outrageously unconstitutional "bathroom bill," the state's LGBT community has had a lot of reason to live in fear. In the months after House Bill 2 was...