At a political rally in Berlin in June, 34-year-old Marcel Yaron Goldhammer — a homosexual and dual Israeli-German citizen wearing a turquoise kippah — launched his campaign to represent one of Germany’s most ethnically diverse constituencies in parliament: …But he’s not running for a liberal party, or one promoting multiculturalism — [the] former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces,... 

While same-sex couples have been allowed to get married in the Church of Sweden since 2009, there is no requirement for priests to agree to perform such a ceremony. Refusal to wed is a right many church politicians and activists seek to remove. Openly homosexual priest Lars Gårdfeldt of the Carl Johan Parish in Gothenburg has refused to wed heterosexual couples. In doing so, Lars Gårdfeldt referred... 

Punishing Hungary and Poland for pursuing conservative values will not give Brussels the result it is seeking and legal threat is likely to make the two outliers even more determined to show they won’t be pushed around. Having huffed and puffed for more than a year, the Big Bad EU Wolf has finally acted on its threat to punish errant member states. But it’s highly unlikely that Hungary and Poland... 

A group of Charedi schools face disciplinary measures from Britain’s education regulator Ofsted for refusing to teach LGBT awareness – and rightly so, as their stance is promoting discrimination. Homophobia is not a lifestyle choice. It’s a form of hatred and discrimination. So that’s the charge that must be levelled at the Orthodox Jewish schools in the UK that are wilfully breaking the instructions... 

A video uploaded to the YouTube channel of children’s television network Nickelodeon shows a drag queen teaching kids about the pride flag, queer and trans black and brown people and more. The performer in the video, Nina West, became famous for starring in RuPaul’s Drag Race. West has also taken part in controversial Drag Queen Story Time events. Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon tweeted the video... 

The European Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday declaring the European Union a “LGBTIQ freedom zone.” The measure seeks to ensure protections for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer communities across the bloc, while also pushing back against member states with anti-LGBT+ policies. “LGBTIQ rights are human rights,” the resolution reads. The measure... 

The overall percentage of Americans who identify as LGBT is on the rise, but the shift seems to be driven by younger generations — particularly Generation Z, which sees one in six identifying as LGBT, a Gallup survey released Wednesday found. While the vast majority of Americans identify as heterosexual, 86.7 percent, the Gallup survey found that 5.6 percent of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. That... 

Joe Biden has issued a presidential memorandum threatening “financial sanctions” on African countries for failing to embrace the LGBTQI+ agenda. The memorandum directs federal agencies to “conduct and expand efforts to combat discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, and intolerance on the basis of LGBTQI+ status or conduct”, with an annual report detailing the status of LGBTQI+ rights in countries... 

Pope Francis told a group of parents of L.G.B.T. children yesterday that “God loves your children as they are” and “the church loves your children as they are because they are children of God.” He did so in a brief encounter with some 40 Italian parents (both mothers and fathers) of L.G.B.T. children after the public audience in the Renaissance courtyard of San Damaso in the Vatican. The parents... 

San Francisco state Senator Scott Wiener has introduced a new bill to decriminalize adult men having sex with boys and he and his allies in the media are smearing all opposition as “homophobic” and “anti-Semitic.” LGBT activists have pushed reasonable notions of equality to its limits with obscene perversions. State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco — the same lawmaker who co-sponsored... 

What have skateboarding Muslims and kneeling quarterbacks got in common? They’re all part of the same social justice struggle, according to Nike. Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you that Woke Capitalism is at it again. Released on Thursday, Nike’s ‘You Can’t Stop Us’ ad is simultaneously an editing marvel (its editors reportedly sifted through 4,000 hours of footage to get those... 

Before the Constitutional changes, the rules were only regulations which could be changed by bureaucrats. Now they will become law, and backed by the clear language in the Constitution, permanent. Seven Russian senators have introduced a package of bills that would prohibit same-sex marriage, ban gay couples from adopting children, and prevent people from getting married after gender reassignment. Led... 

The Church of Sweden, Europe’s largest Lutheran denomination, is known today for its overtly liberal position in many theological and secular issues, such as the question of homosexuality, yet has been steadily losing 1-2 percent of its worshippers every year over the past decades. For the first time in history, the number of female clergy in the Church of Sweden has surpassed that of their... 

Facebook on Friday said it is banning content that promotes “conversion therapy,” which is based on the unfounded notion that gays can change their sexual orientation through psychological or spiritual intervention. “Conversion therapy” is just a fancy term for basically debating gay-ism as a concept. Basically you aren’t allowed to try to talk to a gay person, trying to convince... 

A 16-year-old boy was detained at Eastlake Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles and given estrogen for a behavioral disorder, causing him to develop breasts, according to a lawsuit. The suit was filed against doctors Danny Wang and David Oh and the County of Los Angeles on behalf of the boy, who was diagnosed in June 2019 with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) two days after he was detained at Eastlake...