
This Gay Week: LGBTQ Rights Under Pressure Worldwide
This Gay Week: LGBTQ Rights Under Pressure Worldwide
It’s This Gay Week, and Karel and Scott Jacobsen are taking a trip around the world to see where LGBTQ+ rights are advancing, where they’re retreating—and why the same political patterns keep appearing in very different countries.
This week, there’s some genuinely welcome news: specialized 988 crisis services for LGBTQ+ young people have returned in the United States, while educators in Ireland are working to make schools safer and more welcoming for LGBTQ+ students and teachers.
But elsewhere, the picture is far more troubling.
Australia…
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