LGBT+ News and Discussions

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This is definitely allowed.

may she rest in peace

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These bastards want russia or the middle east for America. Must be defeated.

[Powers]

It is just what it is.

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(I APOLOGIZE FOR POSTING TO THE WRONG TOPIC. IGNORE)

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Ghana intensifies crackdown on rights of LGBTQ people and activists

Wed 28 Feb 2024 20.54 GMT

Ghana’s parliament has passed legislation that intensifies a crackdown on the rights of LGBTQ people and those promoting lesbian, gay or other non-conventional sexual or gender identities in the West African country.

The new legislation passed on Wednesday imposes a prison sentence of up to five years for the “wilful promotion, sponsorship or support of LGBTQ+ activities”.

The bill still has to be validated by the president before becoming law, which observers believe is unlikely before a general election in December.

Activist groups have called the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values bill a setback for human rights and urged President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government to reject it.

But the legislation is widely supported in Ghana, where Akufo-Addo has said gay marriage will never be allowed while he is in power.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... -activists

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Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us

Fri 1 Mar 2024 12.50 GMT



Whales are extraordinarily sensuous creatures. Those blubbery bodies are highly sensitive, and sensitised. At social meetings, pods of sperm, humpback and right whales will roll around one another’s bodies for hours at a time. I’ve seen a group of right whales engaged in foreplay and penetration lasting an entire morning.

I have also watched a male-female couple so blissfully conjoined that they appeared unbothered by our little fishing boat as they passed underneath it. And in what may sound like a career of cetacean voyeurism, I have also been caught up in a fast-moving superpod of dusky dolphins continually penetrating each other at speed, regardless of the gender of their partner.

That’s why this week’s report of the first scientifically documented male-to-male sexual interactions between two humpback whales off the coast of Hawaii is not surprising.

The remarkable image of a two-metre whale penis entering another male “leaves little room for discussion that there is a sexual component to such behaviour”, as one whale scientist, Jeroen Hoekendijk at the Wageningen Marine Research institute in the Netherlands, notes drily.

In fact, one of the whales was ailing and there has been speculation that the encounter may not have been consensual or that the healthy whale was actually giving comfort to the other. Whatever the truth, such “flagrant” acts also expose many of our human presumptions about sexuality, gender and identity.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -sexuality

This will be the first non-human entry on this thread, it just shows that there is far from life than meets the eye as they say on sexuality.

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Gender ID, sexual orientation can be talked about in Florida classrooms after lawsuit settlement

Source: CBS News/AP

March 11, 2024 / 5:17 PM EDT

Students and teachers will be able to speak freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it's not part of instruction, under a settlement reached Monday between Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys who had challenged a state law which critics dubbed "Don't Say Gay."

The settlement clarifies what is allowed in Florida classrooms following passage two years ago of the law prohibiting instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades. Opponents said the law had created confusion about whether teachers could identity themselves as LGBTQ+ or if they even could have rainbow stickers in classrooms. Other states used the Florida law as a template to pass prohibitions on classroom instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation. Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and North Carolina are among the states with versions of the law.

Under the terms of the settlement, the Florida Board of Education will send instructions to every school district saying the Florida law doesn't prohibit discussing LGBTQ+ people, nor prevent anti-bullying rules on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or disallow Gay-Straight Alliance groups. The settlement also spells out that the law is neutral — meaning what applies to LGBTQ+ people also applies to heterosexual people — and that it doesn't apply to library books not being used in the classroom.

"What this settlement does, is, it re-establishes the fundamental principal, that I hope all Americans agree with, which is every kid in this country is entitled to an education at a public school where they feel safe, their dignity is respected and where their families and parents are welcomed," Roberta Kaplan, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said in an interview. "This shouldn't be a controversial thing."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sexual-ori ... ettlement/

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Japan same-sex marriage ban ruled unconstitutional again by courts

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Two more rulings in Japanese district courts have added weight to the push for same-sex marriage to be legalised.

This week, courts in Tokyo and Sapporo ruled the nation's current ban was "unconstitutional", in line with previous landmark verdicts.

The rulings in separate cases found that the ban breached citizens' rights.

Even as they welcomed the verdicts, activists warned that the historic step of legalising same-sex unions would still need to come from lawmakers.

Currently, Japan remains the only G7 country not to fully recognise same-sex couples or offer them clear legal protection. But it is not an outlier in Asia, where Taiwan is the only place to allow same-sex unions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68561968

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[firestar464]

Over half of LGBTQ+ individuals were bi, per the poll. I wonder if it's because of the bi gene?

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Over half of LGBTQ+ individuals were bi, per the poll. I wonder if it's because of the bi gene?

Why limit your options. f*ck all!

. I'll say it again, a hole is a hole." He was then asked if he was coming out as bisexual, to which he responded, "I'll f*ck anything that moves."[23]

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PSNI: Minister fears force is 'slipping backwards' on LGBT issues

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The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) risks its relationship with the LGBT community "slipping backwards", a Stormont minister has said.

Andrew Muir, who is gay, was speaking as part of a BBC Spotlight programme into the murder of a police officer.

He said not allowing officers to take part in the 2023 Belfast Pride parade in uniform was "concerning".

The PSNI said the decision was taken to comply with its obligations on impartiality.

"There had been a lot of goodwill built up as a result of the decision previously to take part, and that has had a real significant impact," the minister for agriculture, environment and rural affairs said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68596573

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Biden administration ties record for number of confirmed LGBTQ judges in federal courts
Nicole Chavez
By Nicole Chavez and Annette Choi, CNN

The confirmation of Nicole Berner and Melissa DuBose to the federal judiciary in recent weeks marks a watershed moment for both LGBTQ representation and the Biden administration.

Eleven federal judges who identify as LGBTQ, including Berner and DuBose, have been appointed and confirmed to lifetime positions since the beginning of the Biden administration, according to data analyzed by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a lobbying group.

That number ties the record set during the eight years of the Obama administration.

Civil rights advocates have continuously called for increased diversity on the federal bench to better reflect the country’s demographics, but the gap in representation for LGBTQ judges has been addressed only in the past 30 years.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/us/biden ... index.html