Capitol Police arrested Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, for participating in a voting rights demonstration in the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday. Beatty and eight other voting rights activists were arrested for crowding, obstructing or incommoding, the legal term used by the department when protesters are arrested on Capitol Hill. They were…
Farming has always played an important role in maintaining human life. But recently, many people have been pointing out the harmful environmental effects caused by toxic fertilizers and chemical pesticides which have adverse effects on the soil, water, and even on the climate. To address this concern, innovative farmers and scientists introduced a different farming…
(RNS) — But some pagans say more visibility for trans and gay members of a largely white, mostly heterosexual community is needed. The post Paganism, gods and goddesses aside, is the most LGBTQ-affirming faith in the US appeared first on Religion News Service.
Ahead of International Nonbinary People’s Day on July 14, new research released Monday by the LGBTQ mental health nonprofit the Trevor Project found that over one in four (26%) LGBTQ youth identified as nonbinary. An additional 20% said they are not sure or are questioning whether they identify as nonbinary. The term “nonbinary” refers to…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A 101-carat diamond has sold at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong for $12 million, with the buyer paying in cryptocurrency The sale comes two weeks after the auction house sold an NFT of the World Wide Web source code for $5.4 million A Sotheby’s executive spoke of cryptocurrency as “humanity’s newest universal…
Veteran film provocateur Paul Verhoeven hit back Saturday at Catholics who have condemned his lesbian nun movie “Benedetta” as blasphemous over scenes in which a statue of the Virgin Mary is used as a sex toy.