LGBT school pupils are more likely to be bullied by teachers: report
Around a quarter of LGBT school pupils who face bullying at school are actually harassed by teachers and other school staff rather than their classmates, according to research published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The report, based on a survey of almost 30,000 pupils at 136 secondary schools in the Netherlands, also found that […]
Transgender professor ordered reinstated with tenure at university in Oklahoma by federal court
A transgender professor who was denied a promotion more than a decade ago must be reinstated with tenure at Southeastern Oklahoma State University because the school discriminated against her, a federal court ruled this week. Rachel Tudor, who was fired from the university in 2011, won a landmark civil rights discrimination case in 2017 in […]
Hong Kong Gay Games postponed due to Covid travel restrictions
The Hong Kong Gay Games have been postponed until November 2023 in view of the current coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions, its organisers have told HKFP. The games, the first to be held in Asia, were originally set to take place next November. Hong Kong Gay Games founder and co-chair Dennis Philipse said the decision […]
Islamist Backlash Cancels Bulgarian LGBT Star’s Concert in Turkey
A scheduled performance at the Balkan Fair in Bursa in Turkey by pop-folk singer Vasil Trojanov Boyanov, better known by his stage name Azis, was cancelled on Monday after an Islamist conservative newspaper led a campaign against the popular Bulgarian performer. “Homosexual perverted Azis will take to the stage at a festival organised for local […]
Trailblazer in transgender treatment: Professor Hwang Na-Hyun of KUAH
People who have a gender identity that differs from the sex assigned at birth are known as transgender. While the term was something many avoided addressing, transgender people have become a part of the local society during the past few decades. In 2006, the Supreme Court unanimously decided on gender correction and emphasized that transgender […]
‘Showing Its Teeth’: EU’s Path to a Showdown Over LGBTQ Rights
The European Union has a dismal track record when it comes to disciplining countries within its ranks. But this month it opened several new fronts in its increasingly contentious battle with its own member countries over the bloc’s core values. The EU threatened Poland with daily fines and frozen payouts in disputes over LGBTQ discrimination […]
Anti-trans legislation will have drastic effects on intersex people & their healthcare
For months, a conservative-backed wave of anti-transgender legislation has taken the country by storm, leading this year to have the most anti-LGBTQ laws enacted in American history. And the laws are likely to have a negative effect on intersex people just as they are on trans and gender non-conforming people — but for a different […]
2 transgender men in court fight over changing sex listed on Hong Kong ID cards
A person does not have to undergo complete sex reassignment surgery to be considered as having changed into a man or woman, lawyers for two transgender men have told Hong Kong’s High Court. The court began hearing their appeal on Monday against a ruling that backed a government policy on how a person’s sex can […]
Harassment led transgender nurse to develop health issues
A labor ministry office in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, concluded that a transgender hospital worker’s mental health issues were the result of months of being misgendered by other employees, The Asahi Shimbun has learned. The Ibaraki Labor Standards Inspection Office ruled in February this year that an assistant nurse developed her mental health problems due to […]
LGBTQ+ Agudah hosts Polish chief rabbi to begin new project for Diaspora
The Agudah – The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel has launched a new plan to help LGBTQ+ Jews in the Diaspora and olim to Israel, hosting a meeting with Jewish leader and LGBTQ+ activists in Poland and Hungary recently in a landmark event. The association has recruited dozens of LGBTQ+ Jewish ambassadors from around […]
Queer South Koreans Hope for an Anti-Discrimination Law to End Decades of Discrimination
This article can be read in Korean here. Receiving even the most basic of services can be difficult for Park Edhi, a South Korean woman living in the country’s capital Seoul. Because official documents do not reflect the fact that Park is transgender, her identity is questioned at every turn. To apply for a credit […]
Two New Jersey agencies are working with HRC toward fully LGBTQ inclusive foster care
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released a new report, 2021 Change-Makers, highlighting the HRC Foundation All Children-All Families (ACAF) program’s partnership with 119 organizations—a 19 percent increase in participation from last year. These partners are working to improve the services provided for the LGBTQ community, including children in foster care. The organizations serve more […]
What is abrosexuality? We asked abrosexual people to explain
The LGBTQIA+ community is vast—it includes a plus sign for a reason. Identities that have never been represented or celebrated before are now making their way into the cultural conversation. More and more diversified identities have surfaced throughout time and better aid queer individuals to have accurate representation. Terms like demisexual, asexual and pansexual (to […]
N.S. filmmaker hopes to inspire Indigenous representation with coming-of-age film
TORONTO — Two-spirit filmmaker Bretten Hannam says they hope their new film “Wildhood” will inspire and open doors for more movie makers to show the lives Indigenous people in the LGBTQ community, but also encourage viewers to see parts of themselves in the characters. Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival, “Wildhood” follows a mixed-race […]
Evangelical Lutheran church installs 1st transgender bishop
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday. The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church’s 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada. “My call is … to be up to the same […]
Hundreds protest against rise in homophobic attacks in Madrid
Hundreds of people gathered in central Madrid on Saturday to call for better protection for LGBT rights after a series of homophobic attacks that have shocked Spain in recent months. People waved rainbow flags and carried banners reading: “justice”, “touch one of us, touch us all”, “we are being killed”. “We are here to protest […]
UCT vice-chancellor apologises to LGBTQIA+ community
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng apologised to the LGBTQIA+ community for a seminar she co-hosted on Sunday, September 4. The seminar, which was hosted by Phakeng with Dr Kgomotso Mathabe, a practising urologist and a member of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital’s Gender Clinic, was streamed on social media […]
Ugandan government shamefully claims queer people fleeing its homophobia are fake ‘economic gays’
Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by life imprisonment in Uganda, which has some of the strictest anti-LGBT+ laws in the world. Most queer Ugandans survive by staying under the radar, and many who manage to escape fear death if they return. Yet foreign minister general Jeje Odongo cast doubt on the legitimacy of queer asylum […]
OPINION: Invest in the LGBT+ movement and change will come
By the time I have my last day at the end of this week, I will have served as executive director of OutRight Action International for nine years and 358 days. My friend tells me that’s a decade. Almost. But I’ve always prized precision in the global fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and […]
Spain searches for answers after string of homophobic attacks
More than four decades after Spain lifted laws that made homosexuality illegal and 16 years after becoming a pioneer in the introduction of same-sex marriage, a surge in hate crimes has instilled fear in its LGBT community. The issue has been pushed to the fore by the brutal killing in July of a 24-year-old man, […]
Could Texas abortion ban strategy be double-edged sword?
The unusual legal strategy used to ban most abortions in Texas is already increasingly being employed in Republican-led states to target pornography, LGBT rights and other hot-button cultural issues. While private residents filing lawsuits is a fixture of some arenas like environmental law, some warn that expanding it and applying it to new areas could […]
Camp True Colors gives LGBTQ+ teens a place to be themselves
Camp True Colors, at a woodsy, lakeside retreat just north of Hinckley, Minn., is summer camp with all the trappings. There’s canoeing and archery and tie-dyeing and a giant water trampoline. There are bunks in the cabins and cookouts over campfires — and, some believe, a friendly ghost inhabiting the bathroom, who campers contact via […]
Hungary Says It Won’t Repeal Anti-LGBTQ Law for EU Pandemic Aid
Hungary won’t repeal a law that critics, including the European Union’s executive, say discriminates against the LGBTQ community, even if that’s the price of accessing billions of euros in pandemic aid, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. Szijjarto, in a briefing late Friday, said Hungary’s pandemic plan was slated for EU approval during the summer but […]
With laughter and slang, Buddhist monk proves a hit with LGBT+ Thais
A Buddhist monk has become an unlikely champion of Thailand’s gay and transgender community by lacing his popular live-streamed talk shows with LGBT+ slang, irreverent humour and social commentary that fans say are helping to challenge taboos. In contrast to the sombre tone of most religious teaching, Phramaha Paivan Warawanno giggles through the shows as […]
Sex education becomes battlefield in U.S. culture war over LGBT+ rights
Sex education is emerging as the next battleground in a U.S. culture war over LGBT+ rights, as some conservative state legislators seek to keep discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity out of the nation’s classrooms. Lawmakers in three Republican-led states backed legislation this year to let parents take children out of classes covering LGBT+ […]
Spain’s PM to convene hate crime commission after suspected homophobic assault
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will chair on Friday an urgent meeting of Spain’s commission against hate crimes amid an uproar over a suspected homophobic assault on a 20-year-old Spaniard in central Madrid. The young man was returning home on Sunday afternoon when eight people wearing hoods managed to surround him in his building’s hallway and […]
Radical groups targeting gay men warns Spanish minister after Madrid attack
Spain’s government has warned about a rise in hate crimes by radical groups after a brutal assault on a gay man by hooded men who carved the word “f****t” on one of his buttocks. Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the Spanish interior minister, said the groups were targeting anyone who was “different”. “Within these groups, the objective is […]
The Guardian accused of ‘censoring’ Judith Butler interview comparing TERFs to fascists: ‘Cowards’
The Guardian has been accused of “censoring” feminist icon Judith Butler after the newspaper deleted part of an interview in which they compared trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) to fascists. This week, an interview was published by The Guardian with the feminist philosopher, and Butler discussed the links between anti-trans “feminists” and the far-right. One of […]
Anger over UCT Vice Chancellor’s “harmful” webinar on LGBTIQA+ community
Gender diversity organisations have slammed UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng for hosting a social media seminar described as “harmful and hurtful” to the LGBTIQA+ community. Titled, What does science says about LGBTQA+, the 5 September webinar featured Dr Kgomotso Mathabe, a practising urologist and a member of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital’s Gender Clinic. The event […]
Tory MP demands government act on ‘cruel and unusual’ trans healthcare crisis
Tory MP Crispin Blunt has condemned the “unacceptable crisis in trans healthcare” and demanded the government pay for trans patients to have gender-affirming surgeries abroad. Blunt, who is chair of the APPG on global LGBT+ rights, pointed to the “continued failure” of the NHS to provide an essential gender-affirming surgery for trans men and non-binary […]