Start your Monday smart: Parkland hearing, Florence recovery, AMAs, a royal wedding
Funding the Florence recovery. Parkland officer on the hot seat. US pastor’s hearing in Turkey. A royal wedding. American Music Awards. Postseason baseball. Here’s what the next six days will bring.
These liberal women are angry, engaged and ready to vote
After Donald Trump was elected, Kim Drew Wright was angry and sad. She reached out to neighbors in Chesterfield County, hoping to find a friend. She found many, and started a movement that’s working to elect Abigail Spanberger and fuel a blue wave.
CBS executive placed on leave following allegations of sexual and homophobic language in the workplace
A CBS executive has been placed on leave after multiple individuals spoke to CNN accusing the senior vice president of talent for CBS Televisions Studios, Vincent “Vinnie” Favale, of using sexual and homophobic language in the workplace.
Screenings for lesbian film sell out after ban lifted
Kenyans are turning out en masse to cinemas to watch ‘Rafiki’ a movie about love between two women that was previously banned in the country.
Supreme Court is voters’ most ‘very important’ issue
Seventy-six percent of registered voters say that Supreme Court appointments are “very important” to their vote in 2018, according to a new Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday. The result marks the first time since August 2004 that the economy has not…
Unseen photos of 1970s lesbian life
There’s a memorable picture of Donna Gottschalk that is circulated in some corners of the internet. In the photo, taken by photojournalist Diana Davies at 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day parade in New York (America’s first gay pride parade), she is blo…
Kenya lifts ban on lesbian film ‘Rafiki’ making it eligible for Oscars
A Kenyan high court has temporarily lifted the ban on ‘Rafiki’ a movie about love between two women. The ruling will allow Kenyan adults to view the movie for the first time in the country for just one week.
This Texan might be America’s first Filipina in Congress
Gina Ortiz Jones is an Iraq war veteran, first-generation American and a lesbian. And she’s running for Congress in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District. If she wins, she’ll be the first Filipina-American congresswoman — ever.
Same-sex relationships are still a crime in 69 countries
India might have struck down a colonial-era law punishing consensual gay sex but there are still 69 other countries with laws in the books that criminalize same-sex sexual activity between consenting adults.