Category: Around the World
Reports out of Iran have confirmed that the middle-eastern country is continuing to execute its citizens for being gay. According to The Human Rights Activists News Agency, the latest act of anti-LGBTQ+ brutality occurred on the 29th of June at Rajai Shahr Prison, where a gay man named Iman Safari-rad was executed under a “sodomy” […]
The decision was decided by 71% of the world’s 152-member federation. Nearly all Transgender women will no longer be allowed to compete in the female competition after a historic vote at the world championships in Budapest. The world swimming governing body decided by 71% to create a new category for transgender athletes. There is one […]
A small group of Anti-LGBTQ+ protesters that attempted to hijack Glasgow’s Pride parade were met with firm resistance from parade attendees at Scotland’s largest Pride celebration. The parade, which took place on Saturday the 25th of June, saw thousands turn out to support the LGBTQ+ community. However, the first Pride parade in Glasgow in 3-years […]
President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision on abortion has set the US on an “extreme and dangerous path” Fears are growing in the United States for the legal status of same-sex relationships and marriage following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe V. Wade which ended the right for all American women to legally […]
In an act of defiance against terror, Norway’s LGBTQ+ community has staged a “spontaneous” Pride parade just hours after a mass shooting that took the lives of two and left a dozen injured outside an LGBTQ+ venue. The unofficial Pride parade took place despite the official Pride parade being cancelled by organisers, and just hours […]
Saudi Arabian authorities are seizing rainbow-coloured children’s toys in a recent “crackdown” on all things LGBTQ+ in the Middle Eastern nation. Believing they will encourage homosexuality, rainbow-coloured hair clips, pencil cases, bows, pop-its, hats, and toys have been removed from shops in the nation’s capital Riyadh for “contradicting the Islamic faith and public morals.” The […]
The director of Football in Germany has hit out at FIFA and condemned Qatar’s treatment of the rainbow community ahead of the 2022 World Cup. Oliver Bierhoff made the comments during an interview with German media group Funke, where he described Qatar’s current laws regarding same-sex relations are “completely unacceptable”. “It in no way corresponds to […]
In what’s been described as better late than never, lawmakers in the State of Pennsylvania have voted to remove the word “homosexuality” from their definition of prohibited sexual acts in the crimes code. Pennsylvania’s state law currently defines sexual activity under “prostitution” to include “homosexual and other deviate sexual relations,” which House Bill 2125 aims […]