Day: December 9, 2015

Venezuela has become the first country in South America to elect a transgendered person to public office.  Transgender woman Tamara Adrian has  secured a seat as a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly. “Yesterday, Venezuela demolished its own Berlin Wall,” Adrian told US magazine Out. Her candidacy already represented a milestone in Venezuelan politics, but with […]

A Czech court has made a landmark ruling in favour of same-sex adoption. The ruling was made  in a case involving 10-year-old twins adopted by a Czech-French couple. The Czech man and his French husband adopted the boys as new-born babies in San Francisco, where they live. However, the children spend their holidays with their […]