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CommentaryOrganized religions rarely agree on much except for one thing: Oppression of LGBTQ people
If it wasn’t for veiled scriptures and rules across Abrahamic religion, would there have ever been “religious” justifications to persecute people based on same-sex sexuality and gender diversity?
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News (World)Iranians are wearing Pride flags in public to protest the brutal beheading of a gay man
“We know that we could be arrested, killed, executed for doing this.”
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CommentaryJoe Biden needs to address global LGBTQ rights. Here’s where he can start.
LGBTQ people face violence and severe repression around the world. Biden has the power to help in several countries.
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Bias WatchIranian cleric warns followers that COVID-19 vaccine turns people gay
“Don’t go near those who have had the COVID vaccine. They have become homosexuals.”
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CommentaryAlready forgot everything from 2020? Here’s a review of the dumpster fire of a year.
In case you needed a reminder, or a reference. Because we’re sure you want to remember all of this.
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News (World)Rabbi blames coronavirus on Pride parades
“When someone goes against nature, the one who created nature takes revenge on him.”
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News (World)Iran is forcing gay men to have gender transition surgeries to “make them straight”
“They would rather carry out mass surgeries than executions because they know the world is watching them.”
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PoliticsDonald Trump says he stands ‘in solidarity with LGBTQ people’ (as long as they’re not American)
His “solidarity” doesn’t extend far enough to give LGBTQ asylum seekers visas or allow U.S. embassies to fly rainbow flags.
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News (World)This gay teen lost his asylum appeal & will be sent back to Iran where ‘they will execute me’
Immigration officials say there’s no “proof” that he’s gay beyond living together with his boyfriend and testimony on his behalf from LGBTQ organizations.
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News (USA)5 reasons why Trump’s initiative to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide is DOA
Why would anyone think that the administration would ever change its tune on LGBTQ rights? Or that the religious right would go along with it?
