Bucknell Investigating âHorrificâ Harassment of L.G.B.T.Q. Students
The university said a group of men tried to enter a house for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students last week. Residents said they were terrified and traumatized by the episode.
âIt is clear from multiple accounts that the students violated the physical space and, far more importantly, the residentsâ sense of place and security,â Bucknell administrators wrote in a letter.Credit.Education Images/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images
May 16, 2021Updated 8:05 p.m. ET
Officials at Bucknell University have ordered an investigation into what they described as a âhorrificâ episode of harassment targeting residents at a house for L.G.B.T.Q. students on its campus in Lewisburg, Pa., last week.
Cameroon Sentences Transgender Women to 5 Years in Prison
Human rights groups and lawyers said the sentences are the latest examples of a crackdown on homosexual and transgender people in Cameroon.
Shakiro, in a photo provided by her mother.Credit.Joséphine Marie Njeukam
May 13, 2021, 2:29 p.m. ET
Two transgender women were sentenced to five years in prison in Cameroon this week after they were found guilty of “attempted homosexuality” and public indecency, the latest example of an increasing crackdown on gay and transgender people in the West African nation, human rights groups say.
Shakiro, identified in police documents as Loïc Njeukam, and Patricia, referred to as Roland Mouthe, both identify as transgender and were arrested in February as they were having dinner at a restaurant in Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital. On Tuesday, they were also found guilty of failing to show proof of identity and given the maximum fine of 200,000 CFA francs, or $370.
Live Your Gay Millennial Pandemic Fantasy in Stardew Valley
In the farming RPG, I can enjoy a life of pastoral domesticity. IRL, I’m a lesbian urbanite struggling through the pandemic.
In Stardew Valley, farmer avatars manage their crops while honing skills, completing quests and, if the player desires, romancing an eligible villager. Credit.Stardew Valley
April 27, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET
Fed up with his soulless corporate job, a young man moves to the farm he inherited from his grandfather, where he joins a quaint community and meets his future husband. That’s not the plot of a new gay Hallmark movie it’s the story of my pixelated alter ego in the video game Stardew Valley.
In Poland, an L.G.B.T.Q. Migration As Homophobia Deepens
An escalation in verbal attacks by the Polish government, with the support of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the threat of physical violence on the streets of many cities, has triggered an exodus of gay people.
Marta Malachowska, left, and her girlfriend, Dorota Rafacz, in Berlin. The couple left Poland to escape a growing homophobia fueled by the government.Credit.Lena Mucha for The New York Times
April 24, 2021Updated 6:47 a.m. ET
For months, government ministers spewed vicious rhetoric about gay people. Trucks blasted anti-gay hate messages from loudspeakers on the streets of Poland’s cities.
State Department authorizes U.S. embassies to fly the Pride Flag.
A pride march outside of the Brooklyn Museum last June to call attention to violence against transgender people.Credit.Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times
April 23, 2021, 11:34 a.m. ET
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has authorized U.S. diplomatic missions across the world to fly the rainbow pride flag on the same pole as the American flag at embassies and consulates, according to a State Department cable reviewed by The New York Times.
The action reversed a decision by the Trump administration, which rejected requests from embassies to raise it on their flag poles during the month of June, which in the United States and many other countries is Pride month.