Tag: LGBT

Bronx LGBT center hosts pride event

BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — There’s only one LGBTQ+ center in the Bronx, and that center hosted a joyous festival for Pride Month in true Bronx style. It’s the 10th annual de Bronx Pride Festival. More Local News Hundreds of members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies are celebrating with a performance of Masterz At […]

Biden protections for LGBT students blocked in six more states

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge in Kentucky on Monday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from implementing new protections for LGBT students from discrimination in schools and colleges based on their gender identities in six Republican-led states that challenged the federal rule as unlawful. The ruling by Lexington-based U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves […]

LGBT soldiers in Ukraine rally for legal rights

Several hundred LGBT Ukrainian military personnel and their supporters marched in central Kyiv on Sunday to demand more rights and highlight their service to their country in its war with Russia. The service members – many wearing rainbow and unicorn patches on their uniforms – called on the government to grant them official partnership rights. […]

LGBT soldiers in Ukraine rally for legal rights

Several hundred LGBT Ukrainian military personnel and their supporters marched in central Kyiv on Sunday to demand more rights and highlight their service to their country in its war with Russia. The service members – many wearing rainbow and unicorn patches on their uniforms – called on the government to grant them official partnership rights. […]

Pope used vulgar Italian word to refer to LGBT people, Italian newspapers report

Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to become priests, Italian media reported on Monday. La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera, Italy’s largest circulation dailies, both quoted the pope as saying seminaries, or priesthood […]

United Methodists in US repeal longstanding ban on LGBT clergy

United Methodist delegates in the US repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBT clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practising homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference — the first such legislative gathering in five years. That overwhelming margin contrasts sharply with […]

Judge blocks Texas attorney general’s demands for LGBT group’s records

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – PFLAG, a leading U.S. LGBTQ advocacy group, on Friday won a temporary restraining order blocking demands from Texas’ Republican attorney general for information about the group’s work with families of transgender minors seeking gender-affirming treatments, such as puberty blockers and hormones. The order, which will remain in effect for at […]