Valentina Petrillo fell in love with athletics as a seven-year-old while watching Italian sprinter Pietro Mennea win gold in the 200 metres at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. “I said I wanted …
As in other places in the world, “street violence” and hate on social media has exploded in recent years, observes Pascal Vaillancourt, director of Interligne, a support service for the …
Matt McAllister was dismayed to learn that there would be no display of rainbow lights illuminating the bridge in his home of Jacksonville, Fla., for Pride month this year. For …
Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as …
Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that LGBT activists should be designated as extremists, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions. …
The Vatican on Wednesday said it’s permissible, under certain circumstances, for transgender Catholics to be baptized and serve as godparents. “It is a major step for trans inclusion … it …
Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional. The decision by the top …
A disciplinary hearing resumed Monday morning for a B.C. nurse facing allegations of unprofessional conduct over her public statements about transgender people. The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives’ discipline …
On a Friday afternoon in Nashville last October, several hundred people gathered in a plaza near the state capitol for an event billed as the “Rally to End Child Mutilation.” …