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What to Do When Your Teenager Comes Out

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Your teenager has just come out and identified as gay. What do you do? The first thing, experts say, is to put yourself in their shoes and understand that he or she may have fears about not being accepted for who they are.

“For your child, this is the first time your child is truly seen,” Michael Anthony-Nalepa, a licensed psychotherapist with a specialized degree in LGBT affirmative…

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The Coeur d'Alene Press - Food and Health, Other View: Religious freedom laws seek to legalize forms of discrimination

The Coeur d’Alene Press – Food and Health, Other View: Religious freedom laws seek to legalize forms of discrimination

[ad_1] May 21, 2019 at 5:00 am | ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH EDITORIAL BOARD

Imagine walking into your doctors or dentists office for an appointment and being refused service because theres something about you the receptionist just doesnt like. All the receptionist has to do is cite a religious objection, and her rights trump yours. Earlier this month, President…

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Gay Eurovision host Assi Azar donates fee to LGBT youth charity · PinkNews

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Eurovision Song Contest host Assi Azar has revealed he is donating his fee from hosting the contest to a charity that helps young LGBT+ people

The gay Israeli TV personality was one of four hosts to host the camp European music contest in Tel Aviv on Saturday (May 18), making a splash by talking to Madonna about his husband.

Assi Azar donates Eurovision fee to LGBT+ charity Israeli Gay…

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Five year olds 'too young' to learn gay parents exist · PinkNews

Five year olds ‘too young’ to learn gay parents exist · PinkNews

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Birmingham Labour MP Roger Godsiff has said that five year olds are too young to learn that some families have same-sex parents.

The MP represents the Hall Green constituency including Anderton Park Primary School, which has faced weeks of protests from a group opposed to teaching about LGBT+ people.

Speaking to the Birmingham Mailon Tuesday (May 21), Godsiff said that following…

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Taron Egerton talks historic gay sex scenes with Richard Madden in Rocketman

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Taron as Elton, right, and left, with Richard Madden | Photos: Paramount/Instagram

Taron Egerton has spoken of his ‘pride’ over Rocketman becoming reportedly the first studio movie to feature gay male sex scenes.

The Welsh actor plays the openly gay pop icon in the new movie, from Bohemian Rhapsody co-director Dexter Fletcher.

Speaking to GSN, Taron said of the historic gay sex scenes:…

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Zimbabwe Marriage Amendment Bill - Same-Gender Marriage Is Illegal

Zimbabwe Marriage Amendment Bill – Same-Gender Marriage Is Illegal

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By Joyline Maenzanise

In a move that has dashed the hopes of equal treatment for the LGBTQI+ community in Zimbabwe, a Bill is set to go before that country’s parliament that would uphold the ban on same-gender marriage.

For Africa’s LGBTQI+ community, the year began on a promising note when Angola repealed its colonial-era, anti-gay law and also criminalised any unfair discrimination on…

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Republican Preacher Runs Shocking Blog Post About Pete Buttigieg, Claims Gay People Die Younger Than ‘Normal People’

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A former member of the Indiana House of Representatives is the latest evangelist to verbally attack the sexuality of 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.

Don Boys, a fundamentalist Baptist preacher from West Virginia, published an offensive blog postlast Wednesday suggesting a gay president’s tenure could be cut short because the lifespan of all homosexuals is “about 20 years less…

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Meet the 2019 Isaac Asimov Science Award Recipient, Pamela Gay

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Dr. Pamela Gay is an astronomer, writer, and podcaster focused on using new media to engage people in science and technology. Her most well-known project is Astronomy Cast, a podcast in its ninth year that she co-hosts with Fraser Cain (producer of Universe Today). She also helped build the CosmoQuestvirtual research facility, a…

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Assi Azar donates Eurovision earnings to the LGBTQ youth of Israel | UNFILTERED: News from the virtual community

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The Eurovision, Europe’s most popular song contest, just took place this weekend in Israel. The contest, which pits the best (and campiest) talents from across the European continent (and also from Israel, which won last year, and which is a member of the European Broadcast Union), was plagued by controversy, after both Iceland’s act, Hakari, and the queen…

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Ohio native Lori Lightfoot pledges reforms as Chicago's new mayor - News - The Columbus Dispatch

Ohio native Lori Lightfoot pledges reforms as Chicago’s new mayor – News – The Columbus Dispatch

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CHICAGO — With her left hand resting on the Bible she received as a high school graduation gift, Ohio native Lori Lightfoot became the mayor of the nation’s third largest city Monday.

Her wife, Amy Eshleman, and 11-year-old daughter, Vivian, were by her side as Lightfoot made history as the first black woman and first openly gay person to be mayor of Chicago.

The…

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Alabama Public Television refused to air 'Arthur' gay wedding - Entertainment & Life - The Florida Times-Union

Alabama Public Television refused to air ‘Arthur’ gay wedding – Entertainment & Life – The Florida Times-Union

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Associated Press Tuesday

May 21, 2019 at 11:08 AM May 21, 2019 at 11:08 AM

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama Public Television has chosen not to air an episode of the PBS children’s show “Arthur” because it included a same-sex wedding.

The episode…

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How Sylvia Rivera Created the Blueprint for Transgender Organizing

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Two years before her death, Stonewall veteran Sylvia Rivera served as muse for a photography series captured by Valerie Shaff. The black-and-white images feature the outspoken activist dolled up with razor-thin eyebrows, a bold lip, and wind-strewn hair on a makeshift encampment near the Hudson River. A nearly 50-year-old Rivera was living there in protest of the mostly gay- and…

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A primer on important terminology – Maryland Daily Record

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Jessica Markham

Words are lawyers’ stock in trade. As attorneys and officers of the court, we need to use correct language when dealing with clients, opposing counsel, witnesses and members of the public. First realize that there are infinite combinations of gender, expression and sexuality. To that end, I offer here a simple primer on important terminology beyond those words with which…

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I Was the First Openly Gay Major-Party Candidate for President, But That Was a Different Time. Pete Buttigieg Can Win in 2020

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It’s been a wild ride for national newcomer South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. He announced his presidential Exploratory Committee on January 23 in Washington, D.C. and in four short months, Pete is nipping at the heels of frontrunners Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in state and national polls.

At first, pundits said that Pete had no chance. Then, as he started to captivate voters and…

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Jess Phillips Brands Anti-LGBT Lesson Protester A "Chancer"

Jess Phillips Brands Anti-LGBT Lesson Protester A “Chancer”

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21 May 2019, 13:31 | Updated: 21 May 2019, 13:38

The Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley labelled the organiser of protests against LGBT equality lessons a “chancer” who doesn’t even have children at the school.

Jess Phillips was shown on social media confronting the organiser of protests outside a school which has been teaching LGBT equality lessons.

The situation has been on-going at…

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From legalising marriage to punishing by death: Nations see same-sex ties differently

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On May 17, Taiwan joined nearly 30 mostly Western countries to legalise same-sex marriage. While gay rights activists welcomed the decision enthusiastically, in many other parts of the world, homosexuality remains illegal and is even sometimes subject to the death penalty. Here is an overview: Taiwan became the first nation in Asia to allow gay marriage via a bill passed by lawmakers.…

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Skyfall actor ‘murdered with chemsex drug’ during plot to steal from gay men

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Gerald Matovu, 25, denies murdering Eric Michels, 54 with the GHB drug after meeting him at his Chessington home, south London, on August 18.

It is alleged that Mr Michels was one of 12 people targeted by Matovu, who is accused of plotting with Brandon Dunbar, 23, to drug men and then later steal from them.

Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC claimed the two men would work together to hook up with…

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