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The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that a Colorado-based web designer cannot be compelled to create wedding websites for LGBTQ+ couples, despite the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) which protects LGBTQ+ people from discrimination in public accommodations. The Court determined that forcing the designer to comply with CADA would violate [...]

The US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana temporarily blocked an Indiana law on Friday that banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The law, S.E.A. 480, was set to go into effect July 1 and restricted care like puberty blockers and hormone treatments. It also included a ban on gender reassignment surgeries for [...]

The UK Home Office announced Tuesday an expansion to the Disregards and Pardon Scheme to include women who were convicted under laws prohibiting same-sex activity, which have since been repealed. Women can now apply to be pardoned for these offences and have their convictions erased. While the UK partially decriminalised gay sex in 1967, offences [...]

Iceland issued new legislation banning “conversation therapy.” The legislation, passed late last week, would ban any attempt to change an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. The new legislation, proposed by Viðreisnar parliamentary party chair and Reform Party MP Hanna Katrín Friðriksson, punishes anyone making an adult undergo conversion therapy with up to [...]

Polish health authorities stated Monday a woman who died in the fifth month of pregnancy had her patient rights violated. The patient died of sepsis in hospital after going into early labor. Hospital staff instructed the patient to lie with their legs up and did not perform a therapeutic abortion due to the presence of [...]

In a letter addressed to LGBTQ+ campaigner Peter Tatchell, the Metropolitan Police (Met) Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley became the first UK police chief to apologize on Wednesday for the force’s homophobic failings. Rowely accepted that the Met “had systems and processes in place which have led to bias and discrimination in the law we have [...]

President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni signed the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 into law Monday. The law authorizes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,”  which includes same-sex relations with a vulnerable person, a person under 18, or when the actor is HIV positive. The bill also sets a term of life in prison for anyone convicted [...]

A group of Chinese citizens who live in Florida, along with a real estate firm that serves clients of Chinese descent, filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a Florida law that imposes restrictions on some foreign nationals and businesses from buying property in the state. Their lawsuit asserts that the law, SB 264, forces them to cancel [...]

According to report published by Amnesty International and the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission on Friday, the Kakuma refugee camp, located in northwestern Kenya, is not a secure sanctuary for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) refugees and asylum seekers. This is due to the rising number of hate crimes and other [...]

The US Supreme Court unanimously held Thursday that a transgender migrant may appeal a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision that denied her relief from deportation. The court reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s ruling that it did not have jurisdiction over Estrella Santos-Zacaria’s request for judicial review. Santos-Zacaria petitioned the [...]