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The international soccer organization FIFA claimed in a statement on Wednesday that it had intervened to prevent officials in Qatar from seizing “permitted items” from fans entering stadiums, a message interpreted to mean that fans will now be allowed to bring LGBT messages and anti-Iran banners into the games.

Qatar World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman got his own interview shut down on Tuesday after saying that homosexuality is “damage in the mind,” warning a German broadcaster that gay soccer fans have to “accept our rules” if traveling to the repressive Middle East monarchy.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken explained that he brings up gay rights “invariably, in every conversation” with his Saudi counterpart, Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, when responding Thursday to mounting criticism of President Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia.

ESPN claims to be ultra-woke and supportive of the radical LGBTQ agenda. Yet, it has remained completely silent on the NBA’s decision to hold games in the United Arab Emirates, a country where gays face the death penalty.

The Walt Disney Co. continues to do business in countries that criminalize homosexuality while at home, the company has provoked a war with Florida over the state’s Parental Rights in Education law, which Disney preposterously claims will jeopardize the “safety” of its LGBTQ employees.

The Democratic Party is establishing itself as the anti-gay party as it uses and subordinates gays for its own political ends – creating the “LGBTQQIP2SAA” banner that drafts homosexuals for political battles which have nothing to do with them and reverses their hard-fought progress on equality 40 years in the making.

Progressive and transgender activists are capturing and converting the six-colored rainbow flag that was created in 1979 by lesbians and gays to represent their single-sex movement for gay rights. 

Time Magazine is promoting a boy for “Kid of the Year” because of his public advocacy for transgenderism — even though the boy’s mother declared him to be transgender only after she failed to convert the boy’s feminine character to be more like a boy.

The Norwegian postal service Posten has released an annual Christmas video featuring Santa Claus falling in love with another man to mark the anniversary of Norway’s decriminalisation of homosexuality.

Pro-LGBT academics are trying to blame mental health problems of people who are living a homosexual lifestyle on Donald Trump’s presidency.

GOP Senators will have to debate the Democrats’ pro-transgender Equality Act now that the far-reaching bill has passed in the House.

Hong Kong police notified organizers of the city’s annual LGBT pride parade that they would not receive a permit to hold the event this year, allegedly to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

First Lady Melania Trump delivered a pro-free speech message to America’s gays and lesbians in an exclusive video provided to the group OUTspoken. 

The transgender ideology will erase women and gays from the law and culture, said a polite tweet from J.K. Rowling, the British left-wing author of the Harry Potter books.

Buttigieg said his experience of being a gay “stranger” in his own country helps him build support among the black voters.

Chick-fil-A will reportedly stop donating money to charities including the Salvation Army and Fellowship of Christian Athletes following pressure from LGBT groups.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s administration announced on Thursday that it will resurrect a bill that punishes homosexuality with death.

The leading gay Republican organization Log Cabin Republicans has endorsed President Trump for his reelection bid in 2020 after remaining neutral during the last presidential election.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters this weekend that musician Elton John is “mistaken” about his attitude towards LGBT rights, arguing that his people remain “very neutral” about the issue.

President Donald Trump tweeted Friday in celebration of LGBT Pride Month, which begins in June, and repeated his administration’s call for the international community to decriminalize homosexuality in countries where it is illegal.

The communist regime controlling Cuba announced a “rally for inclusion and respect for diversity” Monday after near-universal condemnation of the use of state violence to shut down an LGBT pride parade in Havana.

Cuba’s communist regime sent police to beat and violently haul away some of the estimated 300 people congregating in Havana Saturday for an “illegal” gay pride march, organized after the regime canceled the annual Castro-led “conga against homophobia.”

Brunei on Sunday paused implementation of harsh new Islamic sharia laws, including death by stoning for adultery and gay sex, after a storm of global criticism.

German authorities on Wednesday extended compensation payments to more gay men who were investigated under a law criminalizing homosexuality that was enthusiastically enforced in West Germany after World War II.

The Trump administration will launch an effort to decriminalize homosexuality in countries where it is still illegal, as part of a diplomatic push for LGBTQ rights — and an effort to isolate Iran, which persecutes homosexuals.

The governor of the biggest city in Tanzania urged residents this week to help him round up people in the region whom they believe to be gay. He announced the creation of “surveillance squads” to hunt down same-sex couples, who will then be arrested.

Thursday, former Democratic presidential candidate and former DNC Chairman Howard Dean opined on the current state of the Democratic Party. Dean said millennials see gay rights as “the civil rights issue of this generation” and they are “re-sculpting the Democratic

Radical left-wing activists from Antifa attacked a table set up by the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay conservative group, at the Castro Street Fair on Sunday in San Francisco, California.

Germans have grown significantly more tolerant of homosexuals in recent years while attitudes towards Muslims have hardened somewhat, according to a new study which showed the majority of respondents are uncomfortable with the hijab and the spread of mosques. A

Londoners are the least likely regional group in the UK to be relaxed with pre-marital sex and homosexuality, with researchers blaming “religious differences” for the discrepancy with the rest of the country.

Gay rights activists have begun circulating petitions to recall Vice Mayor Ted Hickman of Dixon, California, after he penned a column in the Independent Voice on Friday calling for July to be a celebration of “Straight Pride American Month,” or SPAM.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Gay rights groups and activists pressed ahead with the Istanbul Pride parade on Sunday despite Turkish authorities banning the event for a fourth year in a row.

June is wrapping up but it is not too late to look back on what official resources federal agencies have used to celebrate LGBT Pride Month. Just exactly how much time and money have been allocated is not clear and this is just a sampling of agencies in the expansive federal bureaucracy.

The ever more unhinged former president of Ireland, Mary McAleese, railed against the Catholic Church in an interview with the Irish Times this week, denouncing infant baptism and praising gay rights.

LONDON (AP) — A bakery owned by a Christian family asked Britain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer for refusing to make a cake supporting same-sex marriage.

The far-left Daily Beast says it has “hit pause” on Joy Reid’s columns until its own reporters have had a chance to investigate her claim that homophobic writings attributed to her were actually written by a hacker.