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Global News

Added on: 11/22/2020
11/22/2020
New research from the Trevor Project shows that LGBT+ youth from American Indian and Alaskan Native backgrounds are 2.5 times more likely to report a suicide attempt…

Global News

Added on: 11/22/2020
A divided federal appeals court Friday struck down measures passed in Palm Beach County and the city of Boca Raton that blocked the controversial practice known as…

Global News

Added on: 11/21/2020
11/20/2020
Courtney Skaggs, 29, is genetically male but was also born with a clitoris. However, her body rejected its male hormones and she now lives as an ‘intersex…

Global News

Added on: 11/21/2020
11/20/2020
A federal appeals court struck down Friday local ordinances prohibiting licensed therapists from engaging in “conversion therapy” practices that aim to change a minor’s sexual orientation or…

Global News

Added on: 11/19/2020
1/18/2020
Several journalists are reporting that Joe Biden is considering lesbian Democratic advisor Karine Jean-Pierre to be the public face of the White House next year. If she…

World Voices

Added on: 11/19/2020
Iván López-Justiniano
Alturi Contributor
  Hear the Interview in Spanish   How did you get involved in activism? Well, I actually did not start being an activist, I started as a…

Global News

Added on: 11/18/2020
11/17/2020
New York City’s first LGBTQ+ owned and run housing complex opened in Queens on Friday, 30 years after the owner said she first conceived the idea. Ceyenne…

Global News

Added on: 11/16/2020
11/15/2020
Aiden Falkenberg was in Grade 11 when they found out conversion therapy was still legal in Canada. They were with a friend, Mercedes Bacon-Traplin, when the two…

Global News

Added on: 11/14/2020
11/13/2020
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito criticized same-sex marriage as a harbinger of the erosion of free speech in America, drawing renewed concern from LGBTQ advocates about the…

Global News

Added on: 11/10/2020
11/10/2020
Rainbow Railroad, the Canadian-based international organization that helps LGBTQI people around the globe escape violence and persecution, has launched its #60in60 campaign, which aims to raise $600,000…

Global News

Added on: 11/09/2020
11/08/2020
On May 14, 1974, Rep. Bella Abzug, a feminist icon in women’s rights movement, introduced one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation ever ignored….

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Added on: 11/09/2020
11/08/2020
Congratulations to the gay citizens of Puebla. According to the Yucatan Times, the Mexican state of Puebla has just legalized gay marriage. The state Congress approved an…

Global News

Added on: 11/08/2020
11/7/2020
Joe Biden’s win in the U.S. presidential election will help give a voice to marginalised LGBT+ communities, rights groups said on Saturday, after he promised to overturn…

Global News

Added on: 11/07/2020
11/05/2020
It all began three years ago when Charmaine McGuffey was fired from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department by Sheriff Jim Neil. McGuffey claims it happened because she…

Global News

Added on: 11/05/2020
As the US election results pour in, the LGBT+ community is celebrating a significant milestone in the political landscape. In Delaware, Sarah McBride was elected to the…

Global News

Added on: 11/05/2020
11/04/2020
Are the Olympic Games a net-positive or net-negative for the LGBTQ community? On the one hand, no sports event regularly features more out LGBTQ athletes, elevating their…

Global News

Added on: 11/05/2020
11/04/2020
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to religious rights claims against Philadelphia brought by a Catholic Church-affiliated agency after the city refused to use…

Global News

Added on: 11/04/2020
11/03/2020
A legal battle over the reach of religious freedom returns to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, requiring the justices to consider whether the Constitution allows a religious…

Global News

Added on: 11/04/2020
11/03/2020
The Congress of the Mexican state of Puebla voted to legalize same-sex marriages by an overwhelming majority on Tuesday, marking a step forward for LGBT rights in…

Global News

Added on: 11/02/2020
11/01/2020
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s new Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson will be the country’s first openly gay man to hold the role and is…

Global News

Added on: 11/02/2020
11/02/2020
All eyes are on whether voters will oust Donald Trump this week and whether Democrats can claw back their majority in the Senate. There are also thousands…

Global News

Added on: 10/31/2020
10/30/2020
Intersex advocates who joined a City Council hearing on October 28 made impassioned pleas in favor of a bill to establish an educational and outreach campaign directed…

Global News

Added on: 10/30/2020
In Joe Biden’s town hall earlier this month, one of the questions came from a woman named Mieke Haeck, a 42-year-old physical therapist from State College, Pa….

Global News

Added on: 10/29/2020
10/28/2020
An evangelical Christian group is reportedly suing a string of UK entertainment venues and city councils after they axed public appearances by anti-LGBTQ preacher Franklin Graham. The…

Global News

Added on: 10/29/2020
10/29/2020
Amy Coney Barrett has been fueling the fears of LGBTQ advocacy groups since President Donald Trump first nominated her to the federal bench in 2017. Now, with…

Global News

Added on: 10/28/2020
10/27/2020
A soccer team in Mexico’s capital is shooting for greater inclusion for the LGBT community by relying on the widespread love of Latin America’s most popular sport….

Global News

Added on: 10/28/2020
Right-wing US groups, some with links to Donald Trump, are spending millions of pounds campaigning against LGBT and women’s rights in Europe, it has been revealed An…

Global News

Added on: 10/27/2020
10/26/2020
When Marissa Adams was a toddler, she underwent surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital to make her genitalia look more like a doctor’s idea of “normal.” Like as…

Global News

Added on: 10/27/2020
10/26/2020
With Amy Coney Barrett poised to become the next Supreme Court justice, many Americans are wondering what — if anything — the outcome of the upcoming presidential…

Global News

Added on: 10/26/2020
10/25/2020
Media coverage of trans issues has been linked to an increase in the number of young people seeking support at specialist gender clinics, a landmark study has…