The Washington Nationals announced Monday that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will be throwing out the first pitch for the team’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night. The ceremonial first pitch comes on the Nats’ annual “Night OUT” game,
Hundreds of members of Sri Lanka’s LGBTQ+ community paraded through the streets of the capital Colombo on Sunday to mark the Pride month and demand an end to discrimination. The marchers carried rainbow flags and placards calling for a ban of so-called
Black and LGBTQ+ Americans have been advised not to travel to Florida after it was claimed that the state is engaging in ‘all-out attack’ on them and other minority groups. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) issued a formal
An advocacy group that also served as a safe space for the LGBTQ community in Beijing became the latest organization to close under a crackdown by Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government. “We very regretfully announce, due to forces beyond our control, the
Parents have lodged a formal complaint with the principal of a school in the U.K. regarding a lecture during which a teacher told students they would be “dealt with severely” if they object to being instructed about LGBTQ relationships. The complaint comes
Tens of thousands of people running this year’s London Marathon could be drenched in heavy downpours for much of the race, forecasters have warned. However, they will also be cheered on by a LGTBQ rainbow that is bigger than ever before. The
Japanese LGBTQ activist groups delivered a statement to the government on Friday urging that Japan enact an anti-discrimination law and legalize same-sex marriages ahead of a summit of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations being hosted by Japan in May. Japan
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has refused to sign into law a controversial new bill against homosexuality that prescribes the death penalty in some cases, requesting that it should be amended. Museveni’s decision was announced late Thursday after a meeting of lawmakers
The gay prime minister of Luxembourg used the dais of the European Union’s parliament Wednesday to stand up for LGBTQ rights in the 27-nation bloc and to chastise member state Hungary, which wants to curtail discussions of homosexuality in schools and the
March 25, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT Mother LeeLee James, with the House of LaBeija, poses at a YMCA in Denver on March 22, 2023. (Rachel Woolf) Comment on this story Comment As he scrolled through social media, Vipin Pratap was proud