LGBT

US Supreme Court reverses Trump administration push to restrict treatment for transgender inmates

The court denied the Justice Department's emergency request to lift a federal judge's order blocking the Federal Bureau of Prisons from implementing the policy.

Prison cell block
IN ‘THE WRONG GIRLS,’ best friends become entangled with an experimental substance that gives them telepathic powers.

LGBT film festival celebrates 21st anniversary with award winners, dramas, and classics - preview

Late Erez Halevi in the cover of one of his albums.

Erez Halevi, Israeli pop pioneer and voice of self-acceptance, dies at 71

MK Yitzhak Pindrus speaks during a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 3, 2026.

UTJ’s Pindrus calls gay Knesset Speaker Ohana a 'desecration,' Aguda files ethics complaint


California neo-Nazi-affiliate receives life sentence for murder of Jewish student

Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 27, was charged to life without parole for the murder of 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein.

SANTA ANA, CA - JUNE 13: Samuel Woodward testifies in Orange County Superior Court on Thursday, June 13, 2024 in Santa Ana. Woodward is accused of stabbing his former Orange County School of the Arts classmate Blaze Bernstein to death more than six years ago and burying his body near a Foothill Ranc

Israel's Aguda LGBT group suspended from global advocacy community

The ILGA claimed, “The decision was taken to ensure we fully uphold universal respect for human rights, equal representation, and the elimination of barriers to participation for all members."

 Israelis march in Jerusalem during the pride march on June 1, 2023

US authorities thwart ISIS-inspired teen’s terror plot on Phoenix Pride

Marvin Jalo will be tried as an adult on one count of terrorism and one count of conspiracy to commit terrorism.

A drag queen from BS West's Visionaries troupe performs during Phoenix Pride's Rainbows Fest, a family friendly LGBTQ pride event, in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., April 1, 2023.

Adir Kadosh's fiancé expected to be recognized as first LGBT widower, since law changed last year

The recognition of fiance Edi Levy as a widower will be one of the first times it has been applied to an LGBT couple since the law was amended in late 2023.

Adv.-St.-Sgt.-Maj. Adir Kadosh and his partner Edi Levy.

'Cult, mutilation' – Knesset committee erupts after anti-LGBT comments

Anti-LGBT group sparks uproar at Knesset education meeting over "cult" remarks, budget delays for tolerance programs highlighted.

 People take part in a rally marking the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 3, 2021.

'They are unnatural': Arab channel TV show guest calls for the execution of gay people

Among other things, Badran said that "homosexuals are outside of nature" and that he supports killing them.

Participants celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade in Sydney, Australia, February 29, 2020.

Playtika and IGY partner to strengthen LGBTQ+ support in Israel

Playtika and IGY collaborate to enhance and expand support for Israel's LGBTQ+ community through unique initiatives and mental health resources.


Israel’s embassy in Ireland accuses Dublin Pride of promoting ‘agenda of exclusion'

The embassy charged that Dublin Pride had altered its policy to stop national flags being flown as a circumvented way to prevent the Israeli flag from being displayed at the event.

People attend the annual Pride parade in Dublin, Ireland, June 24, 2023.

US Supreme Court to hear challenge to ban on transgender care for minors

The Supreme Court has confronted several cases in the past decade implicating LGBT rights.

 United States Capitol Police lines up along the perimeter while LGBTQ activists and supporters hold a rally on the steps of the Supreme Court as it hears major LGBT rights case on whether federal employment law that outlaws discrimination on the basis of sex covers sexual orientation and gender ide

'Palestinian, not Pride flag should be raised': Guardian reports on Israel's 'pinkwashing'

“LGBTQ+ liberation has been co-opted by the Israeli state that to a gay Palestinian it now serves only as a reminder of the horror unfolding just 60 miles south."

  Thousands attend the Jerusalem Pride and Tolerance March. May 30, 2024.