Category: GLBT News

By John Mack Freeman Starkville, Mississippi’s Mayor Parker Wiseman has vetoed a resolution approved by the city council that would strip LGBT people in that town of protections that bar them from discrimination. Starkville was the first city in Mississippi to have such protections, with Hattiesburg, Oxford, and Jackson following suit over the course of the next […]

By John Mack Freeman A spokesman for the panel that is putting together the new Thai Constitution has said that there will be explicit references to third gender people. The goal is to protect all genders and sexes. Though Thailand has a large LGBT population, they currently have few protections under the law. Via PinkNews: […]

By John Mack Freeman “The Kentucky Student Privacy Act” is a bill put forth by Republican Kansas Senator C. B. Embry that states that students can sue their schools for $2,500 each time they see a trans student in the bathroom. Embry has sought to make this an emergency bill. Via TowelRoad (with text from […]

By John Mack Freeman In response to international reports last week that new standards would make it impossible for trans Russian citizens to drive, Russian officials have clarified their position and said that trans individuals would still be allowed to drive. The law is based off of World Health Organization standards that still list gender […]

By John Mack Freeman And now, for our weekly article where we summarize the progress that has been made in the ongoing fight for full marriage equality in the United States. This week, we had good news from a variety of sources, so let’s dive in: The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear […]

By John Mack Freeman Victor Manuel Aguirre and Fernando Urias have become the first same sex couple to legally wed in the Mexican state of Baja California. The couple had previously been denied a marriage license three times. The third time occurred last week when the couple’s were denied mandatory counseling by a religious figure who then […]

By John Mack Freeman Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has fired Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran due to Cochran’s distribution of a self-published book called Who Told You You Were Naked? Via the Atlanta-Journal Constitution: “Among what city leaders said were troubling remarks in the fire chief’s book was a description of homosexuality as a “perversion” akin to […]

By John Mack Freeman Russia has once again upped the ante on its discrimination against LGBT people. On December 29th, the Russian Ministry of Health adopted an updated list of “diseases” (sarcastic quotes) that are contraindicated to driving. These include, according to Human Rights First, “being transgender, bigender, asexual, and cross dressing.” The press release went […]

By John Mack Freeman After a few weeks of not much happening from the courts due to the holidays, this week had three major developments in the ongoing judicial struggle for full same sex marriage recognition. This past Monday, Florida started celebrating same sex unions across the state after state Attorney General Pam Bondi lost […]