Tag: LGBT Issues

Armed Tanzanian police stand guard outside a vote counting center at Maji Matitu Primary School in Mbagala, in the Temeke district of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. Tanzanians voted on Sunday in a presidential race that is the most tightly contested since the country became independent in 1961, with the ruling party being challenged by a former member who was recently the country's prime minister.

10 men arrested in Tanzania on suspicion of being gay

Anna Giaritelli · November 7, 2018 4:06 pm

Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk jailed for five days in 2015 for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, is touring Romania in support of a campaign to block legal recognition of such unions there. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Kim Davis loses re-election bid for Kentucky county clerk

Naomi Lim · November 7, 2018 1:48 am

The Making of a Martyr

Christine Rosen · November 5, 2018 7:39 am

The Supreme Court has another chance to defend free speech

Kelly Shackelford · November 3, 2018 4:00 am

The number of U.S. adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) increased over the past year to 10 million, or roughly 4.1 percent of the national adult population.

Apple, Amazon join fight against Trump rollback of transgender protections

Joe Williams · November 1, 2018 5:36 pm

Opponents of a California bill to declare gay conversion therapy a fraudulent practice gather at a rally outside the Capitol as the Senate holds a hearing on the matter inside in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Opponents argue the bill would deny them their right to seek out the therapy through religious practices or other means.

‘Sexual-conversion’ bans disregard free speech and LGBT patients’ choices

Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Jr. · November 1, 2018 4:00 am

This 1989 file photo provided by the Matthew Shepard Foundation shows Matthew Shepard in San Francisco. The ashes of Shepard, whose brutal murder in the 1990s became a rallying cry for the gay rights movement, will be laid to rest in Washington National Cathedral.

Matthew Shepard, symbol for gay rights, laid to rest at National Cathedral

Associated Press · October 26, 2018 10:00 pm

Police tape cordons off a post office in Wilmington, Del.

The Trump White House in review: Week 92

Washington Examiner Staff · October 26, 2018 4:56 pm

President Trump pumps his fist as he arrives to a campaign rally in Las Vegas.

Trump transgender policy is simple and scientific: ‘Sex’ means biological sex

Peter Sprigg · October 25, 2018 4:00 am

Iowa man burns library books ahead of town’s Pride festival

Katelyn Caralle · October 23, 2018 11:25 pm

In this March 10, 2014 photo, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips decorates a cake inside his store, in Lakewood, Colo. Phillips is appealing a recent ruling against him in a legal complaint filed with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission by a gay couple he refused to make a wedding cake for, based on his religious beliefs.

Beltway Confidential

Masterpiece Cakeshop, round two, may be headed to the Supreme Court

Nicole Russell · October 23, 2018 6:53 pm

"Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she continues to support immigration policies that bring Islamic extremists to our country," Donald Trump said. (AP Photo)

Transgender Republicans ‘completely devastated’ by Trump’s LGBTQ switch

Robert Donachie · October 22, 2018 9:33 pm