“I thought that was a load of crap. I thought that was very uneducated, very bigoted, very discriminatory against a population that has long faced an unfair, unethical discrimination.”
— John Keefe, whose application for an Oklahoma license plate that said “LGBTALY” was rejected by the state’s tax commission. According to News9.com, a representative of the commission said the license plate was “sexual in nature.” Keefe has hired an attorney to appeal the decision.
German police shot and killed a 21-year-old man on July 26, a day after he allegedly drove a minivan into a crowd in Berlin's Tiergarten park, crashed into a tree, and attacked several people with a machete.
The crash occurred around 10 p.m. on July 25, just a few hundred yards from Berlin's annual Christopher Street Day celebration, one of Europe's largest Pride events. Police said the victims appeared to include Pride attendees and others who were in the park.
Authorities told Reuters that one person was killed and 29 others were injured, many in the machete attack.
A gay couple that is owed more than $560,000 in damages and legal costs after being denied a marriage license by former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has filed a new lawsuit alleging that she transferred inherited property to family members to avoid paying the judgment.
David Ermold and David Moore were turned away by Davis's office when they attempted to obtain a marriage license in 2015. In 2023, a federal jury found that Davis had violated their constitutional rights and awarded them $100,000 in damages.
A billboard in Lima, Ohio, sponsored by a national organization seeking to overturn marriage equality has sparked backlash from LGBTQ advocates across the state.
The sign features rainbow-colored words against a black-and-white photo of an opposite-sex couple with children. It reads: "Not child has two dads. No child has two moms."
The billboard is part of a campaign by Them Before Us, a Seattle-based national organization seeking to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. The group, which argues that the sole purpose of marriage is to procreate and raise children, belongs to the coalition behind "Greater Than," an anti-marriage equality campaign backed by nearly four dozen right-wing and anti-LGBTQ organizations.
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