Tag: Gay
Hegseth Orders Navy to Review Ship Name Honoring Gay Icon Harvey Milk
The names of several other vessels that honor civil rights leaders and Supreme Court justices might also be changed.
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Bishop Tells Trump to ‘Have Mercy’ on Immigrants and Gay Children
The direct appeal to President Trump at the start of the first full day of his presidency was a remarkable moment at a National Cathedral event that h [...]
LGBT veterans to get up to £70,000 in gay ban compensation
ANN GANNON/BBCStephen Close lived for three decades as a convicted sex offender before his pardon in 2013LGBT veterans who were dismissed from the arm [...]
Biden Expected to Pardon Veterans Convicted of Having Gay Sex
The president’s proclamation would grant clemency to around 2,000 people charged between 1951 and 2013 under a military code that outlawed the behavio [...]
Biden Administration Restores Health Protections for Gay and Transgender People
The Health and Human Services Department finalized a rule prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, reversing a Trum [...]
David Mixner, Fierce Fighter for Gay Rights, Is Dead at 77
He persuaded Ronald Reagan to help defeat a proposed ban on L.G.B.T.Q. schoolteachers in California in 1978, and he sparred with his friend Bill Clint [...]
Veterans demand Commons debate on review into past armed forces gay ban
Campaigners are accusing the government of failing on its key pledges over LGBT veterans ban.
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Nick Gibb: Difficult to be openly gay 30 years ago
The schools minister has explained why he kept his private life with his now-husband secret for many years. Nick Gibb said he kept his relationship wi [...]
Braverman questions asylum for ‘simply being gay or a woman’
Allowing people to claim asylum after travelling through safe countries is "absurd and unsustainable", the UK home secretary has said.Speaking in Wash [...]
Rishi Sunak apologises to UK’s LGBT veterans for army gay ban
"Having our history, experiences and enormous pain acknowledged and apologised for, hearing that the armed services and government that perpetuated in [...]
What to Know About a Seemingly Fake Form in a Supreme Court Gay Rights Case
After the Supreme Court ruled last week that a Colorado graphic designer has the right to refuse to create websites for same-sex marriages, critics of [...]
For Conservative Christians, Gay Marriage Has Taken a Back Seat to Gender Issues
For decades, opposition to same-sex marriage was a marquee issue for the religious right in the United States. Activists like Anita Bryant, Jerry Falw [...]
Kate Forbes 'greatly burdened' by gay marriage row
The SNP leadership hopeful says she is "heartsore" after criticism over her comments on gay marriage.
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Kate Forbes loses SNP backers over gay marriage stance
The SNP leadership hopeful has defended her comments after prominent backers abandoned her campaign.
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Prominent Gay Republicans Helped Smooth the Way for Marriage Bill
Behind the success of the Respect for Marriage Act was a group of prominent Republicans, some of them gay, who worked to persuade G.O.P. senators that [...]