Club Q Owner: We Will Reopen. The Shooter, and Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry, Will Not Win
Chet Strange/Getty ImagesUpstairs in New York City’s storied Stonewall bar Friday evening—rainbow Christmas tree twinkling, a microphone-check underway—Matthew Haynes, co-owner of Club Q, was reflecting on the three weeks since a gunman shot dozens of people, five fatally, at the Colorado Springs LGBTQ club.“Sometimes it feels like three years…Soccer writer Grant Wahl dies at World Cup match in Qatar – FOX Sports
Soccer writer Grant Wahl dies at World Cup match in Qatar FOX SportsAmerican journalist Grant Wahl dies after collapsing at Qatar World Cup CNNGrant Wahl, U.S. World Cup reporter dead at 48, days after detainment over LGBTQ+ shirt LiveNOW from FOXGrant Wahl Was a Giant in Journalism Whose Sudden Passing Leaves a Hole in the US Sports World…
Catholic health organizations can deny trans care, court rules
The federal appeals court decision weakens healthcare anti-discrimination rules for transgender and other LGBTQ people imposed under President Joe Biden…
Respected U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl collapses, dies at World Cup
Respected U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl, who notably protested Qatar’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws at the World Cup, died suddenly on Friday. The soccer world suffered an immense loss in Qatar with the sudden passing of journalist Grant Wahl. Wahl was in Qatar covering the World Cup. He had been tweeting about the Netherlands and Argentina battling…
“It’s terrifying”: Texas drag shows become a right-wing target amid rising extremism
LGBTQ Texans say right-wingers misrepresent what happens at all-ages performances to propagate hate and violence…GOP Lawmaker Called Out by Gay Nephew for Anti-LGBTQ Speech: ‘Not Right’
“So despite coming out to my aunt…I guess she’s still just as much as a homophobe,” said Andrew Hartzler, Representative Vicky Hartzler’s nephew.UN approves exempting humanitarian aid from all UN sanctions
The U.N. Security Council has overwhelmingly approved a resolution exempting humanitarian aid from all current and future U.N. sanctions regimes, a vote the United States hailed as “historic” that will save lives and address longstanding problems of sanctions impeding aid deliveries…
SPU board members seek dismissal of lawsuit over LGBTQ exclusion
RNS) — The lawsuit, board members say, is an effort to ‘intimidate and punish leaders of a religious institution for the exercise of protected First Amendment rights.’ The post SPU board members seek dismissal of lawsuit over LGBTQ exclusion appeared first on Religion News Service…