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Thanks Given for Allyship of Joseph Lieberman

Posted on 24 Apr 2024 in World

LGBTQIA+ advocacy organisations in the US are giving thanks and remembrance this week to Joseph Isadore Lieberman, a former Democratic Senator who has passed on at the age of eighty two. Mr Lieberman was a Democrat, but to the left of the political party on many social issues. He once described himself as with the Democrats on internal matters, but often sided with Republicans on matters of national security. Mr Lieberman was a staunch supporter of allowing lesbian and gay people to serve their country in the US military.

Cuban Society Advances Rights of LGBT+s

Posted on 22 Apr 2024 in World

The Revolutionary Communist Group, a pro-Cuban left wing party, argues in the group's newspaper Fight Racism Fight Imperialism that Cuban society has made major advances for women, trans people and gay people. Ellie Macnamara writes "The Cuban Centre for Sex Edu

Thailand Parliament Approved Equal Marriage

Posted on 20 Apr 2024 in World

US based LGBTQIA web magazine Them.com reports that the lower house of Parliament in the Kingdom of Thailand has voted by a landslide majority in favour of allowing samesex marriages, in a major development for the LGBTQIA+ communities in South East Asia. The Ho

LGBT+ Philadelphians Join in Local Protests

Posted on 14 Apr 2024 in World

Philadelphia Gay News reports that LGBTQIA+ people in the city's "gaybourhood" have joined forces with anti-gentrification activists, local businesses and leaders of the local Chinatown to oppose plans for a huge stadium for the local basketball team which would be built right in

LGBT+ People Thankful for US Scriptwriter

Posted on 12 Apr 2024 in World

LGBTQIA+ Groups in the United States have been giving thanks this week for the life of Norman Lear, the television scriptwriter who has passed on at the age of one hundred and one. The Guardian newspaper notes that Mr Lear was the writer and producer of a series

Apr

Has "Peak Hatred" Passed in Florida?

“Despite years of relentless attacks and dehumanizing rhetoric, LGBTQ+ people and our allies have never given up the fight for Florida.

Apr

Warning on Danger from US Elections

The US based progressive news magazine Mother Jones carries a hard hitting interview with the President of the nation’s leading Black civil rights organization, who has issued a s

Apr

Florida Compromise Allows for LGBT+ Content

Indiana based college radio station WGRE reports that a compromise has been struck in Florida, where the right wing legislature has tried to stop any discussion or

Apr

LGBT+ Oklahomans On Staying and Leaving State

In the wake of the death of Oklahoma Student Nex Benedict, who was non-binary and murdered by two hetero cisgender conservative students in a violent and unprovoked attack whilst a

Apr

Cuban Film Institute Celebrates LGBT+ People

Tania Delgado, former chair of the Cuban Film Institute talks to the communist daily paper The Morning Star about the role of the Cuban cinema in