pride in progress

LGBTQ rights moving forward, at home and abroad: court wins, laws repealed, bans struck down, and the advocates who spent years getting there.

five months in, hungary's new government named the first orbán law it will undo, and it's the gay adoption one Prime Minister Péter Magyar said Saturday that Hungary will scrap the 2020 rule that let a cabinet minister personally approve or deny every single-person adoption, the mechanism that quietly ended gay adoption in Hungary. It is the first piece of... september 12 a christian fund with $5.4 billion asked nike's shareholders to come for trans healthcare and got under one percent Inspire Investing has lined up the Southern Baptists, the state of Nebraska and more than $100 billion to pressure 242 employers over gender-transition coverage. At Nike's annual meeting on September 8 their proposal failed with less than one percent of... september 12 a cree nation read its 1876 treaty, found a medicine chest in it, and told alberta no Alberta bans puberty blockers and hormones for trans kids under 16 and used the notwithstanding clause to keep courts away from it. Saddle Lake Cree Nation says Treaty 6 promised its people a medicine chest, that gender-affirming care is in... september 12 roxanne tickle spent five years proving the law already covered her, and australia's highest court just closed the case Kicked off a women-only app after a manual review of her selfie in 2021, Tickle won in the Federal Court in 2024, won bigger on appeal in May, and on Thursday the High Court of Australia refused the app founder... september 11 ten italian bishops sat down in the jesuit headquarters to talk about how to treat us Italy's first national conference on pastoral work with gay and trans people ran all day on 4 September in Rome, convened by the Italian Bishops' Conference itself. Roughly 200 people, about ten bishops, and four dioceses presenting what they already... september 8 she lost her job over free chest binders. Georgia just paid her $250,000. Gemma Skuraton ran student wellness at Georgia Southern and backed a grant for free chest binders. She was fired. The state settled for a quarter of a million dollars and agreed to call it a resignation. september 6 Bulgaria's top court just told the government to recognize trans people Three years ago the same court effectively banned name and gender changes. Now it says the constitution never did, and EU law requires a procedure. september 4 Switzerland just said it out loud: ban conversion therapy nationwide The Federal Council's own report calls the practice harmful and the cantonal patchwork not good enough. Parliament has said no before. The pressure just moved. september 4