Category: Around the World
The South Australian Parliament has passed reforms aimed at improving how parental roles are recorded on birth certificates for Rainbow families. The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Birth Certificates) Amendment Bill passed by 33 votes to 8, marking a significant shift in how non-birth parents can be recognised on official documents. Under the changes, non-birth […]
The US Department of Education has opened Title IX investigations into three Michigan school districts over allegations they allowed students to compete on sports teams and use locker rooms based on their gender identity. The districts under investigation are Ann Arbor Public Schools, Monroe Public Schools and Chippewa Valley Schools. The Education Department announced the […]
A New Jersey police officer has been allowed to return to work after previously being fired for using an anti-gay slur while on duty. Roselle Police Chief Stacey Williams was fired and had his law enforcement licence suspended in 2024. At the time, an investigation by the Union County Prosecutor’s Office found that Williams had […]
A man in India was allegedly lured through a gay dating app, beaten, stripped and extorted by a seven-member gang, police have said. The 44-year-old, from the Surendranagar district of Gujarat, was allegedly befriended through an app called Polo. When he arrived at an abandoned house behind Surendranagar Medical College, he allegedly found seven men […]
Fox News host Jesse Watters has sparked backlash after joking that fudge was “too gay” for US Vice President JD Vance during a bizarre on-air segment marking National Fudge Day. At the end of an episode of The Five, Watters presented Vance with a pickle cake instead of fudge. “I was gonna do fudge [cake], […]
A man convicted over an assault on a gay couple has been released from custody after successfully appealing his sentence, in a case that has also drawn attention over his alleged links to the Islamic State. Yaqoob Benshabir, 20, whose uncle was Khaled Sharrouf, one of Australia’s most notorious IS members, pleaded guilty over an […]
Police in Idaho say they are unable to charge a man accused of assaulting a gay couple with a hate crime because of a loophole in the state’s law. Pedro Villareal was arrested after reports that he shouted anti-gay slurs at Eric Reed and Juan Olvera outside a restaurant, before allegedly chasing them to nearby […]
The West African nation of Niger has become the latest country to introduce harsh legislation criminalising LGBTQ+ people. According to AP, the country’s military junta has confirmed that a new penal code containing provisions targeting LGBTQ+ communities has now come into effect. Under the code, anyone who “commits or attempts to commit an immodest or […]