Two years ago Katie Sowers became the second woman, after Kathryn Smith of the Buffalo Bills, and the first lesbian coach in the National Football League (NFL). She joined the San Francisco 49ers as an assistant coach.
Bad news... The LGBTQ+ community in the Philippines has suffered a bitter defeat in its attempt to legalize equal marriage.
Pet owner felt her cat might be a lesbian and had a girlfriend, but being unsure and curious to find out the truth, she shared her questions on Twitter. Immediately, a wave of responses came in confirming the good news.
So the separation will take place. The United Methodist Church will separate into two distinct movements: one in favor of marriage equality and the LGBTQ+ clergy; and the other, more traditionalist, that will continue to oppose them.
In 2018 the Michigan Department of Civil Rights reported 44 cases of discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals.
However, the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act introduced in the state in 1976 doesn’t protect LGBTQ people. The listed categories that are protected from discrimination are religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, family status, and marital status.
Therefore, as you can see, there is no protection based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The 2020 Golden Globes ceremony took place on January 5. As I previously announced, Ellen DeGeneres was to receive the Carol Burnett Award for lifetime achievement in television.
The Carol Burnett Award is a new award that is “presented annually to an honoree who has made outstanding contributions to television on or off the screen.”
But we won’t just remember the award received by Ellen DeGeneres, because another lesbian left her mark on the ceremony.
Last week, I was telling you about a rumor that announces the upcoming creation of a lesbian Star Wars series centered on the character of Dr. Alpha from the association between Marvel/Disney and Star Wars.
Since the takeover of Marvel by Disney and the merger with Fox, LGBTQ inclusion seems to be on their agenda! It’s super exciting!
Today here’s news from Marvel/Disney: John Boone’s movie ‘The New Mutants’ will feature a relationship between two women.
Yulia Tsvetkova, Yelena Grigoryeva, and Yekaterina Lysikh are proud of being LGBTQ women. Recently, all three were victims of violence, and one of them did not recover from it.
After Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota recently banned “conversion therapies”, Utah could prohibit it too.
Easyjet is a low-cost airline that has recently reviewed the way they welcome their passengers. It must be said that all these greetings were addressed to binary people. But that was before.
With Northern Ireland finally legalizing marriage equality, which will come into force in January 2020, there was only one tiny British territory, the isle of Sark, which had not legalized marriage for same-sex couples yet.
In 2011, the city of Holland, Michigan has already tried to include the LGBTQ community in the anti-discrimination ordinance, but it didn’t work. The bill was rejected by a 5-4 vote.
This time there is a new mayor in town, Nathan Bocks, who is in favor of the amendment.
In Kansas, Olathe City Council was to consider a non-discrimination ordinance for LGBTQ people.
This was an opportunity to promote equality and diversity while providing protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In this way, all Olathe residents would feel that they were living on an equal footing. That was the plan.
It is true that Ukraine has not legalized marriage equality, nor same-sex civil unions, and that there is no recognition for LGBTQ couples. But despite the persecution of LGBTQ people in the country, Pride Marches are getting better and better every year.
There are some super positive things going on in Minnesota and it feels good at the end of the year, especially as we’re going to be tipping into the presidential elections in 2020 that’ll probably be much less fun.
