All posts tagged "Gay Rights"

Once upon a time — say, December — you could find Donald Trump talking an awfully strong pro-gay game.

“We are fighting for the gay community, and we are fighting and fighting hard,” he told a Mar-a-Lago ballroom’s worth of LGBTQ revelers gathered for a Log Cabin Republican gala, as reported by Politico.

That builds on a litany of statements made by and about Trump — “President Trump is the most pro-gay president in American history,” declared former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell — regarding the former president’s support for LGBTQ Americans....

The Louisiana House on Tuesday advanced its own “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a measure that would ban teachers from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity statewide in K-12 public schools, The Times-Picayune reports.

HB466 passed 67-28 in a mostly party-line vote.

The Times-Picayune’s Chris Granger reports that the measure “would ban school employees and presenters from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in the classroom ‘in a manner that deviates from state content standards or curricula’ or during extracurricular activities.” ...

Incoming freshmen at Duke University have refused to read a summer book option by a New York Times best-selling author because the gay themes and sexual imagery offend their religious morals.

With all the success the LGBT community has been experiencing with marriage equality throughout the U.S., the fact that gay conversion therapy still exists demonstrates how much more work there is to be done in our backward thinking country.

A top aide to President Barack Obama Tuesday singled out nations including Russia, Uganda and Brunei as the worst transgressors against gay rights -- and warned governments everywhere must outlaw discrimination.

Nigerian lawmakers approved Thursday a bill to outlaw gay marriage and crack down on gay rights, including criminalising public displays of affection between same-sex couples.