Tag: Equality House
Did Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps change his mind about LGBTQ people before...
Did Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps change his mind about LGBTQ people before he died? And did it get him ex-communicated by the church he founded?
A new documentary raises the question and finds that the infamous hate group leader may have, indeed, grudgingly come to accept gay people after years of vulgar and disgusting protests.
Phelps founded the Westboro church in Topeka, Kansas in 1955. Since at least 1991, Westboro has been actively involved in actions against gays. The...
Trans student Gavin Grimm is going to college thanks to a generous benefactor
Gavin Grimm, the trans male student from Virginia who fought his school board’s transphobic bathroom policy in 2017, has been given a generous scholarship from an ally best known for opening a rainbow-colored house across the street from Kansas’ Westboro Baptist Church (WBC).
Aaron Jackson is Grimm’s benefactor. Jackson is the founder of Planting Peace, a humanitarian and environmental international non-profit organization. In a public Facebook post, Jackson wrote:
Last week, I put out a request asking if anyone knew a...
Thugs perpetrate sickening attack on Equality House
The Equality House has been attacked by thugs who left homophobic graffiti and smashed windows.
The Topeka, Kansas-based symbol of LGBT+ equality was established by Planting Peace back in 2013.
Sharing its local vicinity with the hideously anti-LGBT Westboro Baptist Church, the building has been painted with rainbow colours in order to be seen as a celebration of community.
A same-sex wedding has taken place at the Equality House, as well as a lemonade stand hoping to advocate for peace.
But Planting Peace...
Equality House vandalised with bullet holes and homophobic graffiti
The Equality House in Topeka, Kansas, which stands opposite the Westboro Baptist Church has been attacked this week.
Planting Peace, a non-profit organisation that does exactly what its name suggests, have been spreading love all over the world for a while now. They traveled to Antartica to declare it ‘the world’s first LGBT-friendly continent’ and even sent a Pride flag into space in the past.
But it looks like one of their earliest, and most famous, projects is under attack. The equality house, a glorious...
