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CUSCO, PERU: 11/14/2020 : Protestors wave a rainbow flag at Plaza de Armas after Congress removed President Martín Vizcarra from office. Photo: Shutterstock The government of Peru has officially declared transgender people “mentally ill.” The decree, announced last Friday, will reportedly update Peru’s Essential Health Insurance Plan (PEAS) to officially classify conditions such as “transsexualism,”

The term “trespassing” has several definitions depending on perspective. In one sense, it means “entering a location unlawfully or without permission.” I recently posted a meme on Facebook with the picture of a common camping tent and the caption: “Tents are Non-Violent, Let Them Stand, Let the Protests Continue Non-Violently.” Related: I created and distributed the

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signing the anti-trans sports ban in February. Photo: Screenshot/NBC4 A New York judge overturned a Long Island county’s ban on trans women and girls participating in women’s and girls’ sports. As the Associated Press reported, on Friday Judge Francis Ricigliano ruled that Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R) “acted beyond

Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. This nice weather has got folks visiting parks, playing sports, traveling around, dining on sidewalks, camping out, and just kicking back to enjoy themselves. Hopefully it’s

Photo: Bil Browning/Shutterstock Earlier this month, trans teenager Jazlynn Johnson, 18, was murdered in Las Vegas. Police had responded to a call from a man who said that his 17-year-old son, Cesar Sandoval, had murdered his friend with a gun earlier that evening, although he did not tell police where the murder had taken place.

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A view of Balzers, Liechtenstein Photo: Shutterstock The parliament of Liechtenstein just passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, making it the 22nd country to do so among Europe’s 37 nations. The bill goes into effect at the start of 2025. The country’s parliament, known as the Landtag, voted nearly unanimously in favor of the historic

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti speaks to the media outside of the James H. Quillen United States Courthouse in Greeneville on Tuesday, February 13, 2024. Photo: Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK Tennessee’s Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) is spearheading a lawsuit for 18 mostly Republican-led states that seeks to block new federal guidelines

A federal appeals court has ruled that religious parents in Maryland can’t opt their kids out of classroom lessons involving LGBTQ+-inclusive books. Three sets of parents – who are Muslim, Jewish, and Christian – sued the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), arguing that the books “contradict their sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage, human sexuality,

Nymphia Wind in Season 16 of RuPaul’s Drag Race Photo: MTV screenshot Nymphia Wind, the recent winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16, has made herstory by performing for Taiwan’s pro-LGBTQ+ President Tsai Ing-wen. Wind, a Taiwanese drag performer, performed on Wednesday alongside five other queens — all clad in individual colors of the rainbow

A former far-right Texas school board member who promised to stop pro-LGBTQ+ “indoctrination” in her local school district is now speaking out against “extremist” members of her own Republican Party who are hellbent on banning books, defunding schools, and electing ultra-right members to school boards. She has received death threats for opposing the party’s efforts.

Anthony Gordon, his husband Roger Dennehy, and his boyfriend Ben Fink have a bounty of Pride events to choose from in Southern California. They share a home together in Los Angeles, and Anthony is a makeup artist. Sometimes they’ll jump on the 10 and drive east two hours to the Coachella Valley and the gay

Four young trans women across America have been murdered since April 29. They are the 11th through 14th known trans women to die from violence this year. On April 19, Starr Brown — a 28-year-old Black trans woman in Memphis, Tennessee — was found dead inside of a crashed car in a local neighborhood. A

A wheelchair user prepares to lasso a calf at the 2020 Keystone State Gay Rodeo Photo: Shelly Stallsmith via Imagn Content Services, LLC via IMAGN When doctors first diagnosed Malcolm Cook with a degenerative brain disease seven years ago, they told him he’d be using a wheelchair within five years. While he accepted their prediction,

Members of the OhioHealth group carry balloons during the 2017 Stonewall Columbus Pride Parade in Columbus, Ohio on June 17, 2017. Photo: Brooke LaValley / USA TODAY NETWORK The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a warning just before Pride Month begins about possible threats from foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). The

Jennifer Lawrence jokingly yells at a former Vice President Mike Pence at the 2024 GLAAD Awards Photo: YouTube screenshot Actress Jennifer Lawrence has blasted former Vice President Mike Pence for his past support of conversion therapy. She made her comment at the GLAAD Awards in New York City on Saturday while introducing the Vito Russo Award

A bill to expand Alabama’s Don’t Say Gay law and ban Pride flags from classrooms has died after the legislative session came to a close without a vote on the bill. State Rep. Mark Butler (R), who sponsored the bill, said that he doesn’t know why his bill didn’t pass other than that it was

Members of Brecksville/Broadview Heights Pride in Ohio at their first Pride Fest in 2023 Photo: Provided In the bucolic, and conservative, small town of Broadview Heights, Ohio — south of Cleveland, north of Akron and right next door to the spectacular Cuyahoga Valley National Park — Jennifer Speer and fellow members of Brecksville/Broadview Heights Pride put

A sense of security on the internet as a queer person has always been hard to find. And with a rapidly changing digital world, things seem to only be getting more complex.  To me, the rise of AI (artificial intelligence) came out of thin air – I knew nothing about the subject, and then my

Last January, not long after agreeing with an actual Nazi that western Jews have brought antisemitism upon themselves by welcoming “hordes of minorities” to their countries, Elon Musk took a quick trip to Poland. The billionaire chief of SpaceX, Tesla, and X laid a wreath at Auschwitz and then preceded on to a symposium in Krakow,

Libs of TikTok, a social media account run by anti-LGBTQ+ activist Chaya Raichik, has amassed over three million followers on X (formerly Twitter) by inspiring outrage against LGBTQ+ teachers, all-ages drag performers, gender-affirming medical professionals, and their allies. The account’s posts have increasingly influenced right-wing politicians and anti-LGBTQ+ extremists and have also been connected to

Dylan Mulvaney’s Bud Light video Photo: Instagram screenshot After the immense backlash Bud Light endured over its tiny partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, it seems the brand has decided the best course of action from here on out is to avoid supporting anyone or anything that could make people angry. Bud Light will now

The Catholic Church has long opposed in-vitro fertilization (IVF), the most common method of assisted reproduction and one which many LGBTQ+ people rely on to build families. But it turns out the Vatican played a key role in the development a breakthrough drug that made the treatment possible in the late 1950s. In a recent Vanity

Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. Pride Month is just around the corner, but the rainbow is already shining brightly here with great news galore! Though some of us are busy preparing

Last month, the UK’s four-year-long review of medical interventions for transgender youth was published. The Cass Review, named after Hilary Cass, a retired pediatrician appointed by the National Health Service to lead the effort, found that “there is not a reliable evidence base” for gender-affirming medicine. As a result, the report concludes, trans minors should generally not be able

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“I have completely accepted my children, their journeys, their identities, and their preferences,” actress Marcia Gay Harden told LGBTQ Nation a few days ahead of celebrating Mother’s Day with her kids, all of whom identify as queer. “I speak out, and I talk about it in an environment full of hatred, full of canceling, and

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster at a Trump rally in February 2024. Photo: ALEX HICKS JR./STAFF / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN The South Carolina legislature has just passed a ban on gender-affirming care, making it the 25th state to do so. The ban also requires educators to out trans students to their potentially unsupportive

Claudia De la Cruz, 2024 U.S. presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation at a pro-Palestine protest. Photo: Shutterstock Anyone with eyes in their head can see that the American government and media both have a clear pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian bias. Neither one officially recognizes Palestine as a state, and any criticisms against