Category: Around the World
Despite living in a predominantly Buddhist country, and contrary to the majority opinion among believers and the Buddhist hierarchy of his country, the Thai monk Shine Waradhammo has become a defender of the legalisation of abortion and the rights of the LGBT+ community in Thailand. Dressed in the characteristic monk orange robe, the 50-year-old monk […]
Just a few weeks after celebrating his 31st birthday, Spanish superstar Pablo Alborán has publicly come out as gay to his fans via a video on social media. “I have something to tell you,” announced Pablo Alborán in the caption of his most recent Instagram post, shared on June 17 with his 5.5 million subscribers. […]
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has made a pledge to his constituents that he will ban LGBT+ education in schools and block any legalisation for same-sex marriage and adoption. President Duda’s comments were made on Wednesday the 17th of July as he heads into his re-election campaign which has been put on ice due to COVID-19. […]
Reports have emerged from an AIDS Research Centre in Barcelona of a newly identified variant of HIV that is showing resistance to current antiretroviral drugs. The scientific journal The Lancet Microbe has disclosed last week that a 75-year-old patient is a man who was diagnosed in 1989 and the virus he carries is resistant to […]
Amnesty International says the proposed legislation’s scrapping “sends a chilling message that the UK is a hostile place for trans people.” United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson had dumped his predecessor Theresa May’s proposed measures which would have allowed people to change their legal gender by “self-identifying” as a different sex. In news which will […]
The landmark ruling is a major defeat for President Donald Trump. In a historic 6-3 decision, the United States Supreme Court has delivered LGBT Americans the biggest legal victory since same-sex marriage was legalised in 2015. In a major blow to President Donald Trump, America’s highest court ruled LGBT Americans are protected under Title VII […]
The senior Queensland Police constable is aiming to raise awareness of the high level of domestic violence in the LGBT+ community by speaking of his own experience. A senior police officer from the Australian state of Queensland has decided to speak out on same-sex domestic violence in an effort to encourage more LGBT survivors to […]
The study finds “dudebros” are less supportive of LGBT+ rights and express their masculinity in “entitled, obnoxious, and toxic ways.” A surprising new study has found that older people are more supportive of LGBT+ communities than millennial men. Published in Sexuality Research and Social Policy, the study conducted by sociologist Dr Meredith G.F Worthen from the […]