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The right-wing representative launched a campaign following Angela Carini's loss to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who conservatives were falsely claiming is a transgender woman.
The singer shows her stance against homophobic Russian president Putin with her decision to cover infamous faux-lesbian duo, t.A.T.u
Rachel Maddow has a few choice words — and a couple excellent puns — for right-wing American politicos who are falling over themselves to support Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Russian president Vladimir Putin told national sports officials today that his administration will 'do everything' to make sure LGBT athletes and spectators are 'comfortable' at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were sent to remote Soviet-era prison camps to serve their two-year sentence for performing a "punk-prayer" against Russian president Vladimir Putin inside the country's main Orthodox cathedral in Moscow.
A city court in Moscow Friday upheld a decision to ban LGBT pride parades for the next 100 years. The decision affirms a Moscow municipal government ruling banning public gatherings that could be classified as gay pride marches from March 2012 until May 2112.
Russian punk-rock feminists decry Putin as an "evil man" as they burn his picture.
Wüst was the first gay athlete to win gold at the Sochi Olympic Games.
We’re not surprised, but we are upset that Russia’s crackdown against LGBTQ+ people is alive and well.
As we say goodbye to Sochi (but not to our coverage of the anti-LGBT law in Russia), we have a few moments that will undoubtedly stick.
I like a good boycott. Chick-fil-A's CEO is an unabashed antigay donor? Fine, I don't need his deep-fried, sodium-chicken anyway. We even un-registered from Target for my 2010 wedding and switched to Bed Bath & Beyond because the CEO had donated to an antigay organization. The spouse and I are gangster like that. Quite frankly, I can thoroughly live the rest of my life without Russian vodka. I'm more of a craft beer or tiny winery type of gal, anyway.
The queen of pop made an impassioned progay speech as she introduced Russian protest-punk band Pussy Riot at Amnesty International’s Bringing Human Rights Home concert in Brooklyn.
ATLAH World Missionary Church's latest message of hate mixes up the Bible a bit.
President Obama had a lot to say in his State of the Union address, but there was also plenty left unsaid.
From lawmakers punishing colleges that include LGBT authors in their curricula to elementary and high schools that would rather silence gay and gender-nonconforming youth than face the bullying head-on, these are the stories that had us screaming at the screen this week.
Members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison for ‘hooliganism’ for staging a protest against President Vladimir Putin outside of Russia’s main Orthodox Cathedral on Feb. 21, of this year. Hundreds protested outside the courthouse when the verdict came down leading to at least 30 people being detained.
In a commentary on Russian punk band Pussy Riot's recent arrest, former New York City mayor Ed Koch defended President Vladimir Putin's action imprisoning three members of the group. What's more, he compared the group's actions to a similar demonstration by the AIDS activist organization ACT UP in December 1989, when protesters disrupted a Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral to loudly oppose John Cardinal O'Connor's statements on abortion, homosexuality, and AIDS.
Decree of amnesty may free remaining members of punk band jailed for part in 2012 protest.
A lesbian in Russia who was fined after protesting a local law banning so-called homosexual propaganda cannot be prosecuted under the law because it violates the United Nations' International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
President Joe Biden confirmed that the WNBA star was released as a part of a prisoner exchange.
