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Latin American Women’s Aid in London opens a queer drop-in service

The London-based Latin American Women’s Aid (LAWA) has opened a new specialised service for minority LBTQ women. LAWA – which runs the only two refugees in Europe for Latin American women and children fleeing gender-based violence – was founded in 1987 by Latin American women who came to the UK as political refugees....
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Pride: FX making documentary series about battle for LGBT+ rights

FX has announced Pride, a big-budget documentary series about the LGBT+ rights movement. The US cable network on Tuesday (August 6) announced that it was producing the new series, which will chart progress made on LGBT+ rights over the past 60 years. Each episode in the six-part series will be helmed by a different queer...
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Ohio lawmaker who blamed shootings on gay marriage refuses to resign

Chairwoman of the Ohio Republican Party Jane Timkin has called for Candice Keller, the lawmaker who blamed mass shootings on “the breakdown of the traditional American family”, to resign. Keller made the comments in a since deleted Facebook post, which came in the wake of two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton,...