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LGBTQ rights moving forward, at home and abroad: court wins, laws repealed, bans struck down, and the advocates who spent years getting there.

a category 3 hurricane canceled saturday at atlanta pride. the parade is still on for sunday. the gays will simply be outside. Atlanta Pride canceled all of its Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026 programming in Piedmont Park because of the threat from Hurricane Isaias, which the National Hurricane Center upgraded to a Category 3 storm on Friday. The organization says Sunday's festival and... october 9 australian soldiers convicted for gay sex can finally have it wiped from their records. it only took 34 years. we'll take it. Australia opened applications on Oct. 6, 2026 for current and former Australian Defence Force personnel, or the families of those who have died, to have historical convictions for consensual homosexual activity extinguished from their service records. Veterans' Affairs Minister Matt... october 6 brazil just sent three trans women to congress, and one of them got 1.6 million votes. we would like to be governed like this. In Brazil's Oct. 4, 2026 general election, Natal city councilwoman Thabatta Pimenta (PV) became the first trans woman elected federal deputy from Rio Grande do Norte and the Northeast, with 92,743 votes. Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP) was re-elected with 1,596,472 votes... october 6 the bishop who told trump to have mercy on gay and trans kids is stepping down. in 2028. she's not done with him yet. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington who asked President Trump at his January 2025 inaugural prayer service to have mercy on gay, lesbian and transgender children, announced on Oct. 1, 2026 that her successor will be elected on... october 4 paris pride got canceled in june because it was 40 degrees. it came back on saturday with a sign that said "less RN, more lesbians." worth the wait. The Paris Pride march, canceled on June 27, 2026 at the police prefecture's request during a heatwave, took place on Saturday, Oct. 3, from Place d'Italie to Place de la Bastille. AFP reported tens of thousands of marchers and a... october 4 the lgbtq youth crisis line is back after 14 months. it took an act of congress. we still don't know who picks up. Specialized LGBTQ+ youth services on the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, reached by pressing 3, returned on Sept. 30, 2026, according to Sen. Tammy Baldwin and the Congressional Equality Caucus. The Trump administration ended the service on July 17, 2025.... october 1 serbia's president quit to run for prime minister, so a lesbian is running the country for up to three months. the activists have notes. Ana Brnabić, the speaker of Serbia's parliament and the country's first openly gay prime minister, took over presidential duties on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, a day after President Aleksandar Vučić resigned to lead his party into an Oct. 25 snap... september 30 mamdani took the netherlands' gay prime minister to the lgbt center. the kids brought zines. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten, the Netherlands' first openly gay prime minister, at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Manhattan. In town for the UN... september 27 newsom signed six bills for the gays. his press release still says "add press release content here." i'm framing it. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed six LGBTQ Caucus priority bills on Sept. 26, 2026: AB 1775 (trans veterans), AB 1930 (subpoenas for gender-affirming and abortion care), SB 934 (conversion therapy after Chiles v. Salazar), SB 1023 (injectable PrEP), SB 1114... september 27 seattle put your throuple in the civil rights code. the line nobody is quoting deletes “male or female” Seattle passed Council Bill 121278 on Tuesday, adding consensual non-monogamy to the city's sexual orientation protections. The same bill quietly writes pansexuality and asexuality into the municipal code for the first time, and strikes the words “male or female” out... september 16 the squirrel-skinning club survived. the gay club is the one that needed a federal judge. King George County banned noncurricular clubs at its middle school rather than let seventeen kids start a GSA. Yearbook, Robotics and an Outdoor Club that skinned squirrels were reclassified and kept meeting. On September 11, six weeks before a federal... september 12 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