Tag: LGBT Issues

This Thursday March 26, 2015, file photo shows Ashers Baking Company in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

UK Supreme Court rules in favor of Christian bakery owners who refused to make ‘Support Gay Marriage’ cake

Diana Stancy Correll · October 10, 2018 8:45 pm

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio talks to government officials.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio signs law adding ‘X’ gender category to birth certificates

Maria Biery · October 9, 2018 9:15 pm

Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018. If confirmed, Kavanaugh would fortify the high court's conservative majority, and spotlight the rightward march of the federal judiciary under Trump and the GOP-controlled Senate.

National Security

Kavanaugh could cement Trump’s transgender military ban

Travis J. Tritten · October 8, 2018 7:30 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a media availability with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha at the State Department, Friday, May 11, 2018 in Washington.

House Democrats rip State Department for denying visas to diplomats’ same-sex partners

Diana Stancy Correll · October 5, 2018 7:09 pm

The Rainbow Flag flies beneath the American flag at the Stonewall National Monument, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, in New York. The Rainbow Flag, an international symbol of LGBT liberation and pride, was flown for the first time at the monument.

Trump administration denying diplomatic visas to same-sex partners of foreign envoys, UN staff

Naomi Lim · October 2, 2018 4:27 pm

Rosie O'Donnell arrives at the LA Premiere of "SMILF" at the Harmony Gold Theater on Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, in Los Angeles.

Rosie O’Donnell criticized for ‘homophobic’ tweet aimed at Lindsey Graham

Naomi Lim · September 26, 2018 10:12 pm

Beltway Confidential

Durham University and the meaning of a penis

Tom Rogan · September 24, 2018 12:16 pm

A Wisconsin school district is asking the Supreme Court to review an appeals court's decision allowing a transgender teenager to use the boys' bathroom while the student's lawsuit proceeds through the courts. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Beltway Confidential

The transgender war has no place in the classroom

Nicole Russell · September 24, 2018 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Rapist identifies as trans woman, gets sent to women’s prison. Guess what happens next?

Jenna Ellis · September 19, 2018 7:22 pm

Ernie and Bert of âSesame Streetâ pose in front of the Queen Mary II in the harbor of Hamburg, Germany, on May 9, 2006.

Beltway Confidential

Bert and Ernie’s ‘Sesame Street’ puppetmasters duke it out over character’s sexuality

Stephen Kent · September 19, 2018 6:34 pm

Ernie and Bert of the Sesame Street television show pose in front of the world's biggest cruise liner " Queen Mary II " for the media, on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 in the harbour of Hamburg, northern Germany.

Sesame Workshop confirms Bert and Ernie ‘best friends,’ after former writer said they were a couple

Katelyn Caralle · September 18, 2018 10:35 pm

Five transgender troops will soon ask a federal court for an injunction to temporarily halt President Trump from moving forward with any ban on their service, according to an attorney working on the case.

National Security

Trump withdraws Supreme Court appeal in transgender military lawsuit

Travis J. Tritten · September 18, 2018 3:07 pm