Nearly 100 LGBTQ athletes competed at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, with Australia being the Gayest Squad there
At least 22 teams, including several prominent names, in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in football had openly LGBTQ athletes. The tournament has just concluded as Spain defeated England 1-0 in the final, which can be considered an upset…
US: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used air horns to emphasize her LGBTQ policy points at Bronx Pride
By Kat Tenbarge From Business Insider Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made an appearance at Bronx Pride on Sunday to give a speech about LGBTQ policies – along with some air horn sound effects. Her policy points included making PrEP free for…
10 maps show how different LGBTQ rights are around the world
By Shayanne Gal and Ashley Collman from Business Insider On Wednesday, Brunei instituted Sharia Law, making sodomy a capital offense. INSIDER created a series of maps to visualize how gay rights vary around the world. Despite same-sex marriage being legal…
Queens group bolsters visibility of city’s queer Caribbean community
BY ALEXANDRA SIMON From Caribbean Life They’re waving more than just Caribbean flags! The Caribbean Equality Project, one of the city’s leading LGBTQ voices, is a dominant force for the Caribbean LGBTQ community, helming their issues and bringing them to…
Overseas Territories Attorneys General to meet in Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands hosts OTs Attorneys General annual meeting this year. ·Opening ceremony for two-day meet will be held on Tuesday, 19 February 2019. Grand Cayman (GIS) – Attorney General Hon. Samuel Bulgin, QC, will host this year’s Overseas Territories (OTs) Attorneys…
US: California adds Oklahoma to State Travel Ban List
By Sandy Fitzgerald From Newsmax California is continuing to ban state-funded travel to places with laws perceived to discriminate against gay or transgender people, adding Oklahoma as the ban’s ninth state, Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced in a press release…
Go beyond gay cruises in two LGBTQ-friendly Caribbean cultural hotspots—the island of Curacao and the Mexican Caribbean coast
BY : HOLLY V. KAPHERR From Watermark Online You might think the Caribbean is all Irie Times and liquid sunshine, but for LGBTQ travelers, the landscape can be surprisingly unwelcoming. Because the Caribbean culture is super relaxed about other cultural…
Jamaican reaction to Trinidad buggery law ruling is predictably mixed
Written by Emma Lewis From Global Voices Jamaicans reacted in fairly predictable fashion to the news of the April 12 court ruling in Trinidad that found the “buggery law” unconstitutional and illegal. Local LGBT lobby groups and individual campaigners expressed…
How the Olympics can embrace non-binary athletes for the future
BY HEATHER DOCKRAY From Mashable It’s hard to remember a time before the Olympics had very open, very gayathletes like we do now, but the first openly gay Olympian didn’t appear until 1988 in Seoul. Thirty years later, there’s still…
The queer Caribbean women fighting a vital, dangerous culture war
Text Louis Staples From Dazed We speak to activists from Barbados, St Lucia and Trinidad about their continued resistance in places where it’s unsafe to be LGBT Former British colonies such as Uganda and Kenya, as well as Pakistan and Bangladesh,…