Category: Around the World
Russian citizens will now be subjected to stricter restrictions and discrimination following President Vladimir Putin’s signing of a bill to expand on the so-called ‘gay propaganda law.’ The so-called ‘gay propaganda law,’ was originally signed in 2013 and banned media from ‘promoting’ “non-traditional values,” including same-sex relationships and gender diversity, to citizens under 18 years […]
Two men who were serving in the Indonesian military have been kicked out of the army and jailed for seven months after being convicted of conducting same-sex sexual relations. Despite same-sex sexual relations being legal in most parts of Indonesia – with the exception of the province of Aceh, the nation’s military still bars its […]
The United States Senate has approved the historic legislation providing federal protections for same-sex marriages in a bipartisan vote. The bill, known as the Respect for Marriage Act, received support from both sides of the increasingly polarised political divide. Needing 60 votes to pass, the evenly divided upper chamber voted 61 to 36, with 12 Republicans joining […]
Despite warnings of a potential terror plot against the event, thousands of people turned out to defiantly celebrate in the streets of Johannesburg for the city’s Pride parade. The event, which took place on Saturday, the 29th of October, was the first Pride parade in the city for two years due to Covid bringing the […]
Garmany’s Football Association (DFB) has spoken out about FIFA’s moves to persuade teams to ditch the donning of pro-LGBTQ+ armbands at Qatar’s World Cup, saying the organisation used “extreme blackmail.” The controversy erupted after captains of several European teams, including Germany, England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland, decided to don the OneLove LGBTQ+ […]
Richard Fierro, an army veteran who, along with a trans woman, helped take down the Colorado Springs gunman, has opened up about the horrific ordeal, explaining, “I had to take him down.” The duo disarmed the man responsible for five deaths and injuring twenty-five by dragging him to the ground before stopping on him with […]
BBC Sports Presenter Jack Murley has called out FIFA after the Football governing body threatened to sanction any sports team who wore pro-LGBTQ+ “OneLove” armbands at the Qatar World Cup while describing England and Wales’ decision not to wear them as a “cop-out.” Murley, who is the presenter of the BBC’s LGBTQ+ Sports Podcast, made […]
Anderson Lee Aldrich – the suspect in the Colorado Springs shooting, is now facing a range of charges, including five charges of murder and five charges of committing hate crimes. Aldrich, who was arrested at Club Q, in Colorado Springs, after reportedly opening fire and killing five people and injuring at least 25, has been […]