Dad Sues School District Over Pride Flag Under 'Don't Say Gay' Law

, multiple European teams have walked back plans to wear rainbow armbands during the global soccer competition.The teams representing England, Wales, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands announced that they would no longer wear the OneLove armbands for “diversity and inclusion” shortly before their campaigns were scheduled to start on Monday, per . The gesture, small as it may seem, speaks volumes in Qatar, which has  since it was chosen to host the back in 2010, due to its harsh criminalization of homosexuality and mass exploitation of migrant workers. Although the teams said that they would be willing to accept a fine, FIFA told them just hours beforehand that any player wearing an armband would receive a yellow card, per .

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Equality Texas, Transgender Education Network Texas, and others filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights on Monday, alleging violations of Title IX.The ACLU is seeking an investigation of the Keller Independent School District (Keller ISD), which banned all books depicting or referencing transgender or nonbinary people earlier this month.The ACLU stated in its letter that the policy was intended to erase the existence of transgender and non-binary people.Three conservative school board members were elected to the seven-member Keller ISD board six months ago, resulting in Keller ISD’s anti-transgender policy.

Charli and Mark's Freestyle, falling back in love with dancing again.

Jeopardy! winner Amy Schneider has made LGBTQ+ history again with her Tournament of Champions win.

A transgender woman in Maine and her father have filed suit against the Department of Defense because military health insurance excludes gender-affirming surgical procedures for dependents covered by the government program.The Military Health System does not cover surgical treatments for gender dysphoria for dependents of service members under a federal law dating back 46 years. Despite the fact that active duty service members can receive this essential treatment, dependents cannot, highlighting an unacceptable double standard, according to the lawsuit.It was filed by Boston-based GLBTQ Advocates and Defenders, or GLAD, on Monday on behalf of the family.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! winner Christopher Biggins believes Matt Hancock could make the final of the show in a surprising turn of events.The former Health Secretary was tipped to be the first contestant to leave the jungle, but has so far avoided being voted off the show by the public. So far, the MP has proved to be a good sport by successfully completing his Bushtucker Trials.He has also told campmates he was looking for forgiveness after breaking his own social distancing rules last year. Speaking out on his antics, Christopher said: "He's doing everything brilliantly and however much you may hate him he is a player and he goes for it, he really does go for it he gets all the stars."He feeds the camp, he's charming and has won over the camp and I think is winning the audience over too."Scarlette Douglas ‘devastated’ by Jonnie Irwin's terminal cancer newsLike many others, the former winner thought Matt would be the first contestant to leave the show.However he is yet to receive the lowest amount of votes to kick him out by the public.So far, Charlene White, Scarlette Douglas and Sue Cleaver have been given the boot, leaving Jill Scott as the only remaining female in camp. Christopher added on the Mail Online's Jungle Confidential podcast: "Originally people thought the best thing would have been if he was first to go out.

Bouquets of flowers sit on a corner Monday, Nov. 21, near the site of the Nov. 19 mass shooting at a Club Q in Colorado Springs. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Drag Race star Courtney Act has slammed Liberal senator Alex Antic for accusing her of grooming children.

Speaking up. Meghan Markle discussed female sexuality on the latest episode of her “Archetypes” podcast — and she did not hold back when commenting on the “stigma” many women face when it comes to sexual exploration.

Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for U.S. senator from Georgia, is being blasted for delivering an anti-transgender speech and running an anti-trans ad the day after the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs. The five people killed at Club Q included a trans man and a trans woman.Walker, who is up against incumbent Democratic Sen.

More gay men in NYC are coming forward to share stories disturbingly similar to those of two gay men who were drugged, killed, and had their bank accounts emptied after a night out drinking earlier this year.John Umberger, 33, of Washington D.C., was drugged, robbed, and killed after a night visiting gay bars in Hell’s Kitchen on May 28. He was last seen with a group of men exiting a taxi and his body was found on June 1.

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(CNN) – With a crippling freight rail strike looming in two weeks, leaders of four railroad unions and management of the major US freight railroads are due back at the negotiating table this afternoon.It will be the first joint negotiating session for the four unions, whose rank-and-file members rejected the five-year labor agreements similar to deals accepted by the eight other rail unions in recent months.The latest no vote came from the largest union, the transportation division of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail Transportation union, or SMART-TD, which represents 28,000 conductors, brakemen, and other workers. About 51 percent of those members voted against the deal reached in a 20-hour bargaining session in September, just hours before a previous strike deadline.“A strike could be averted.

Attacks on gay bars across America continue, with a New York City venue being attacked for the fourth time in a month.

(CNN) -- Some people attending 2022 World Cup matches have said they have experienced difficulties in Qatar when trying to enter stadiums wearing clothing in support of LGBTQ rights.At the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on Monday, ahead of the United States Men's National Team's (USMNT) match with Wales, US football journalist Grant Wahl and former Wales captain Laura McAllister both said they had been told to remove rainbow-colored items of clothing by security staff.Wahl said he was detained and briefly refused entry to the match because of the "rainbow soccer ball t-shirt" he was wearing, posting on Twitter that security staff had told him: "You have to change your shirt. It's not allowed."The journalist wrote on his website that when he tweeted about the incident on his phone, "one guard forcibly ripped my phone from my hands.""One security guard told me that my shirt was 'political' and not allowed," Wahl wrote.

Most of us are devastated by the horrible tragedy perpetrated on our community at Club Q in Colorado Springs this weekend, with five people shot to death and nearly 20 wounded.While not all of us can go to Colorado Springs and hug every LGBTQ+ person we run into, we can help in other ways. We can take care of each other and reach out to LGBTQ+ people who are feeling isolated right now.

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Jinkx Monsoon hopes you’re going to be good to mama, as she announced she’s joining the cast of Chicago on Broadway.

(CNN) — Michael Anderson was mixing drinks at Club Q Saturday night when he heard popping sounds amid the loud, thumping music.He wasn't worried at first. The pops sounded like some sound effects popular at LGBTQ clubs, the bartender told CNN's Don Lemon. Then he looked up and a figure came into his line of sight, clutching a weapon."I saw the outline of a man wearing a rifle at the entrance of the club," he said.Anderson froze.Confused and suddenly terrified, he ducked behind the bar.

Jill Scott talked about the different experiences that LGBTQ+ men and women footballers have with coming out.

It was not the first time that Daníel Arnarsson, a well-known Icelandic LGBTQ+ rights campaigner, had faced homophobic insults on the streets of the capital, Reykjavik.

NBC News’ senior reporter Ben Collins is calling for media outlets to have a “come to Jesus moment” – a dose of reality in order to make a major change – in the wake of the Colorado Springs hate crime mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub, Club Q, that left five people dead. A clip of his segment is going viral, with many agreeing the media needs to do a better job.

A CNN guest on Tuesday slammed Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker for releasing an ad targeting teen transgender athletes hours after a gunman murdered five people at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs.

LONDON: The implosion of cryptocurrency exchange FTX shows the need to bring the crypto world within the regulatory framework, Bank of England (BoE) Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe said on Monday (Nov 21).

Sam Smith has shared more details about the creative process of making their hit single, Unholy, with Kim Petras.

Colorado officials have publicly identified the five people tragically killed in a mass shooting at Club Q this weekend.

Richard Fierro

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett should recuse herself from an LGBTQ+ rights case the court is scheduled to hear in December, say former members of People of Praise, a religious group to which Barrett belongs.Barrett’s “lifelong and continued” membership in the group means she has anti-LGBTQ+ bias she can’t put aside when hearing the case of a Colorado website designer who wants to refuse services to same-sex couples, even though state law bans such discrimination, the former People of Praise members told The Guardian.People of Praise is an interdenominational conservative Christian group that believes, among other things, that wives should be subservient to their husbands, and it is also anti-LGBTQ+. The group operates Trinity Schools, which has Christian schools in Indiana, Minnesota, and Virginia, where it is clear that LGBTQ+ employees and children of LGBTQ+ parents are not welcome.

Amy Schneider is now not only the first out transgender person to compete in Jeopardy!’s Tournament of Champions, she is the first to win it.Schneider claimed the title in the episode that aired Monday. Under a new system this year, the winner of the tournament was the first finalist to win three games.

A Colorado man suspected of committing the horrific Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub shooting has been arrested and faces numerous charges. 

Colorado Springs police have now released the names of all five people killed at Club Q over the weekend and lauded two people they consider heroes.They held a press conference Monday afternoon to provide updates on Saturday's mass shooting at the LGBTQ+ club. The accused shooter is Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22.Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez identified the five victims who died and their pronouns.

Five people were killed and 25 injured on Saturday, as a gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado. Richard Fierro was there with his wife and daughter when the shots rang out. He’s the one who took the gunman down.“I don’t know exactly what I did, I just went into combat mode,” Mr.

The mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs has shaken the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado and across the country. As the full scope of the massacre becomes clear, so do the stories of survival and bravery. Stories of terror that will never leave those affected.

At last night’s American Music Awards, Taylor Swift walked away as the evening’s top winner, as she collected half a dozen more prizes, bringing her career total up to an unprecedented 40.While the “Anti-Hero” songwriter may have emerged as the most-recognized star, newcomer Dove Cameron stole the show with one of the most meaningful speeches of not just this year’s ceremony, but of any AMAs in recent memory.As Cameron stepped up to the mic to accept the New Artist of the Year AMA, she took the trophy from recently-named Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph and wasted no time saying something heartfelt and timely. “I want to start by saying that every award that I ever win will always first and foremost be dedicated to the queer community at large,” started the singer and actor. “You guys have carved out such a space for me to be myself and to write music about it and I’ve never felt safer or more loved or more supported and I hope I can give you some semblance of that same feeling in my music.”After a round of cheers from the audience, Cameron continued to speak, never venturing away from the topic at hand.

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Four of the five people killed in the Nov. 19 mas shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs were, far left, bartender Derrick Rump, bartender/supervisor Daniel Alston, center, patron Kelly Loving, top right, and patron Ashley Paugh, bottom right.

BBC presenter Alex Scott supported the LGBTQ+ community at the Qatar World Cup by wearing a OneLove armband. 

Sunday afternoon U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) posted a tweet about the mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in his district and didn’t mention anything about the victims or that it was a crime of hate. He’s received so many angry responses he turned off responses.

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With threats of receiving penalizing yellow cards from the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), the captains of seven European soccer teams will not wear pro-LGBTQ+ armbands during the World Cup, according to the Associated Press.England’s Harry Kane, the Netherlands’ Virgil van Dijk and Wales’ Gareth Bale were due to wear the One Love armbands in Monday’s games. The captains of Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark were also expected to wear the armbands in the coming days.The decision comes after the European Football Association (FA) released a statement that advised players "not to attempt to wear the armbands in Fifa World Cup games." That came after FIFA officials, who had assured the FA of safety for LGBTQ+ supporters, refused to back down over their zero tolerance of the OneLove campaign.If Kane or any other of the captains choose to go against the FA's advice, they could be penalized for wearing a OneLove armband against Iran in England's 2022 World Cup opener in Qatar.

Disney fired CEO Bob Chapek after less than two years on the job and brought back former CEO Bob Iger.That comes after missteps on public issues, most notably a failure to oppose Florida’s “don’t say gay” law early. That prompted Chapek in March to publicly apologize to its employees and cease all political donations.Variety reported late Sunday that the world’s largest media company had abruptly decided to reinstall Iger and dump Chapek.

Dove Cameron delivered an emotional tribute to the victims of the horrific Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ nightclub shooting.

Video footage from a home security camera, provided to CNN by a relative of the shooter’s mother, shows Anderson Lee Aldrich surrendering to police after his mother reported he had threatened her by saying he had a bomb in June 2021. Charges in that case were apparently dropped, and the records sealed, CNN reports.

Drag Race UK star Vanity Milan has announced that she will release her next single, a “bad bitch anthem” titled Pissed, in just a few days.

ABC’s late night star Jimmy Kimmel isn’t big on endorsements but he is endorsing a Democratic U.S. Senator for re-election, in something of a non-endorsement video he recorded criticizing the far-right Republican trying to unseat her.

History is in the making. For the first time, two openly gay candidates are competing for election to a US congressional seat.

A federal judge in Florida has dismissed a suit against the state’s “don’t say gay” law and refused to issue a preliminary injunction blocking its enforcement.U.S. District Judge Wendy Berger, appointed to her position by Donald Trump, made her ruling Thursday, the Associated Press reports.