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Victory Fund board investigates former staffers’ allegations against CEO Evan Low (opens the original)
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The Washington Blade has learned the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund’s board of directorsinvestigated former staffers’ allegations that CEO Evan Low bullied staff and mismanaged finances and found no evidence of wrongdoing on his part. The Blade obtained a letter the former staffers emailed to the board on Aug. 5. The subject was “concerns about Evan Low.” The World Pride Human Rights Conference began in Amsterdam the same day. Low on Aug. 7 spoke at the beginning of a panel that featured Dutch Prime Minist
Ana Brnabić becomes world’s first openly lesbian head of state (opens the original)
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Ana Brnabić on Monday became the world’s first openly lesbian head of state after Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić resigned. Brnabić was the country’s prime minister from 2017-2024. She was most recently the president of the Serbian National Assembly. Vučić resigned ahead of parliamentary elections that will take place on Oct. 25. Media reports indicate Vučić could become Serbia’s next prime minister if his Serbian Progressive Party can successfully form a new government. Brnabić until then wi
529 openly LGBTQ candidates running in Brazilian election (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers will be on assignment in Brazil through Oct. 6. SÃO PAULO — 529 openly LGBTQ candidates are running for in the Brazilian election that will take place on Sunday. VoteLGBT, an organization that seeks to increase LGBTQ representation in Brazilian politics, notes 109 of these candidates are either transgender or travesti. They include Congresswomen Erika Hilton and Duda Salabert, who made history in 2022 as the first travesti and first tran
Dutch prime minister visits Stonewall Inn (opens the original)
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Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten on Monday visited the Stonewall Inn in New York. “The Stonewall Inn is not just a gay bar in New York, but the place where in 1969 riots took place as a reaction to years of discrimination and police violence,” wrote Jetten on X. “This is seen as the starting point of the global LGBTIQ+ emancipation and activism. Nowadays, the bar is a national monument, dedicated to the LGBTIQ+ rights movement.” “For me, it is impressive and moving to be here tonight. And also fi
UN human rights chief sounds alarm over ‘comprehensive onslaught’ against LGBTQ rights (opens the original)
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UNITED NATIONS — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday said there is a “comprehensive onslaught” against LGBTQ and intersex rights around the world. “We know that progress for human rights has never been linear … but today’s backlash is deep and it is coordinated and the persecution of LGBTIQ+ people around the world is escalating at an alarming rate,” he said during an U.N. LGBTI Core Group event that took place on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. The Core Gro
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