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Jason Whitlock Photo: YouTube screenshot Anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing broadcaster Jason Whitlock has praised, platformed, and promoted E. Michael Jones, an antisemitic author whom Whitlock recently interviewed for the right-wing outlet Blaze Media. In the interview, Jones said that Jews “took over the Blacks early on,” are “undermining the moral fabric of the American people,” and are […]
Originally Reported by Reuters WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – The United States on Monday issued a business advisory for Uganda, saying that businesses faced potential risks in the African country, citing an anti-LGBTQ law condemned by many countries and the United Nations. The advisory . . .
The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Uganda officials after the African nation passed an anti-LGBTQ law that was condemned by many countries and the United Nations, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. The law, considered one of the harshest in the world, was enacted in May and carries the death penalty . […]
People take part in an annual LGBT Equality Parade in Warsaw, Poland June 17, 2023. Photo by Kacper Pempel/REUTERS WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The United States ambassador held a U.S. flag high as he marched in the yearly Pride parade in Warsaw on Saturday, a clear message of Washington’s opposition to discrimination in a country […]
The wave of recent anti-LGBTQ+ bills launched across the US is unlikely to win over voters who are more focused on practical issues such as health and education, said a trailblazing Black gay lawmaker. The spate of conservative-sponsored legislation from anti-trans bills to drag queen bans is a backlash against the growing support for LGBTQ+ […]
In Idaho, police recently found 31 members of a white supremacist group packed into the back of a U-Haul truck, apparently on their way to an LGBTQ+ pride event in the town of Coeur d’Alene. Further west, a crew of Proud Boys interrupted a drag queen event in California, intimidating parents and children and screaming […]
White supremacy has long been bound up with rigid views about gender, masculinity and sexuality. Take a long-since-forgotten Ku Klux Klan raid on a gay nightclub in what’s today Miami-Dade County. In November 1937, nearly 200 members of the Klan, wearing spectral robes, publicly burned a cross during an induction ceremony. Then they descended on […]
Black religious leaders and advocates are urging church members to signal support for the LGBTQ community as anti-LGBTQ legislation rises throughout the U.S. Advocates highlighted the need to pass bipartisan federal legislation that protects religious liberty and LGBTQ rights in a virtual panel last week. State legislators have proposed at least 238 bills that would […]
In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opinion piece titled “The struggle for gay rights is over”. Written by the rightwing academic James Kirchick, the piece was obviously meant as a provocation, but its argument that “for those born into a form of adversity, sometimes the hardest thing to do is admitting that they’ve won” was […]
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