VILNIUS—Defending History has still had no reply to itsopen letter of August 2013to the Minister of the Economy, asking him to look into multiple media reports that the pseudonymous “Zeppelinus,” Lithuania’s best-known purveyor of hate-popart on the internet is indeed a senior civil servan...
Before Nazism, a German institute cemented itself as gay liberation’s epicenter. For 40 years, activists have been searching for its legendary collection.
A group of individuals that includes three Nashville elected officials and two LGBT advocacy groups, on Monday filed a suit against the state of Tennessee challenging a new law that prohibits local governments from enacting anti-discrimination laws that are stricter than protections laid out by the...
LGBTQ civil rights groups and drag artists are sounding the alarm about bills in three states that if they became law would restrict drag performances. The bills are in North Dakota, Arkansas, and Tennessee, and are part of a backlash to queer visibility that was spearheaded by the so-called...
Black LGBTQ+ folks helped lead the civil rights movement. Homophobia buried their stories. Commentary Donald Trump crowns himself king of “deplorables” with every fascist word he says Life I wasn’t always proud to be a Black queer man. But one heart-wrenching moment changed everything. ...
“When the human rights discourse is juxtaposed with developmental agendas it loses its luster,” said the group. “We see the far reaching effects of discrimination from entities such as religious groups and anti-rights groups purporting to protect the family. The lives of people are easily turn...
June Jordan was a bisexual essayist, activist, and poet whose work explored sexuality, gender, race, immigration, representation, the civil rights movement, and much more. This book brings together all her most influentials works in one convenient place. ...
In a victorylandmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled that existing U.S. Federal Law (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) protects LGTBQ workers from discrimination. Thestatutory interpretationdeclared that the current prohibition of “sex” discrimination is inclusive of sexual orientation ...
Eric Stanley, an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, told CNN that these overlooked groups have played a crucial role in the fight for LGBTQ civil rights. “As is well documented, Black, brown and Indigenous people hav...
June 15, 2020 -The Supreme Court rules that federal law protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination. Thelandmark rulingextends protections to millions of workers nationwide and is a defeat for the Trump administration, which argued that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act that bars discrimination based...