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News (USA)
Gay Indiana mayor joins crowded field to lead national Democrats
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is barely known outside northern Indiana, but he brings a distinctive resume to the campaign.
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Life
Transgender man sues Catholic hospital for refusing his hysterectomy
He says a hospital administrator told him the procedure to remove his uterus couldn’t be done because it was a “Catholic hospital.”
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News (USA)
Christians decry ‘thought police’ then call for blacklisting Carrie Underwood
They argue that Carrie Underwood should not have been allowed to sing at a Christian conference because her pro-LGBT beliefs are “not from God.”
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News (USA)
Kentucky Democrat introduces two anti-LGBTQ bills despite GOP opposition
Well, this is a turn around, isn’t it?
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News (USA)
Bryan Fischer thinks single-use bathrooms give trans people ‘special rights’
“Sexually normal people don’t have that; that’s a special deal. That’s not equal rights, that’s special rights.”
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News (World)
Nuns in India have started a school for transgender dropouts
This may be the very first group of its kind in all of India.
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News (USA)
Texas introduces anti-transgender bathroom bill with quote from MLK, Jr.
The state’s business community largely does not support such legislation, knowing it could cost them millions of dollars and thousands of jobs.
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Commentary
Republican threatens university’s funding over six-week masculinity workshop
Thinking about masculinity, whiteness, heterosexuality, cisgender status, or any other label on the privileged side of an axis of identity means that it’s going to lose some of its power.
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Commentary
Milo Yiannopoulos named LGBTQ Nation’s 2016 ‘Person of the Year’ by readers
Love him or hate him, he won it fair and square.
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News (USA)
VA governor bans LGBTQ discrimination following introduction of ‘bathroom bill’
Governor Terry McAuliffe’s executive order makes anti-LGBTQ discrimination among state employees, contractors and subcontractors illegal.
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News (USA)
Mike Pence promises Trump will repeal Obama’s executive orders on day one
Protections for LGBTQ workers and students that came through an Obama executive order are in danger.
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News (USA)
Ellen explains why she cancelled homophobic gospel singer’s appearance on show
“As someone who has received a lot of hate and prejudice and then discrimination because of who I choose to love… It only gives me more compassion.”
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News (USA)
Will Obama’s greatest accomplishment be his record on LGBT rights?
Obama took office in 2009 as a self-described “fierce advocate” for LGBT rights, yet for much of his first term drew flak from activists who viewed him as too cautious.
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News (USA)
Will North Dakota keep gendered marriage terms as protest against Supreme Court?
The measure would update dozens of references such as “husband and wife” to gender-neutral terms.
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News (USA)
The new Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds documentary will gut you
“It’s a love story. Carrie wanted to make ‘Bright Lights’ for Debbie and Debbie wanted to make it for Carrie.”
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News (USA)
Gospel singer Kim Burrell loses radio and TV shows after homophobic tirade
A Texas university has canceled her radio show and the CW has dropped her television talk show from it’s lineup.
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News (USA)
Former inmate sues over alleged antigay abuse from guards and prisoners
The man says he was brutally assaulted by another inmate because he’s gay and that jailers also harassed and demeaned him.
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News (USA)
Did you know Coachella’s owner gives loads of cash to anti-LGBT groups?
The concert’s owner’s extravagant funding of homophobia has resurfaced after Beyoncé was announced as the Coachella headliner.
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News (USA)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gives $140 million to develop PrEP pump
A device to deliver a daily dose of an HIV prevention drug could be a huge leap forward in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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Life
Hillary and Bill Clinton to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration
Talk about rubbing salt in the wound…