Category: Around the World
A worldwide LGBTQIA+ Pride event has announced the first wave of speakers and artists appearing at the online event on June 27. They include Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of Costa Rica – which recently legalised equal marriage – Prime Ministers of Norway Erna Solberg and Luxembourg Xavier Bettel, and Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of India. All were approached by […]
Widely considered as one of the best footballers in the world, Neymar has had a homophobic complaint made against him after he called his mother’s bisexual boyfriend a “little fag.” The coverage of the complaint follows the leaking of an audio recording of a private conversation between Neymar and several of his friends which were […]
LGBT+ rights groups have raised concerns around recently appointed White House liaison, Merritt Corrigan who has a long history of homophobic statements. The new member of Donald Trump’s administration who previously said that the United States is in the clutches of a “homo-empire” that pushes a “tyrannical LGBT+agenda,” is now the deputy White House liaison […]
In February EU parliamentarians Abir Al-Sahlani and Fredrick Federley led a group who sent questions to the European Commission on so-called “LGBTQ-free” zones in Poland. The questions were whether the Commission agreed that these zones violate EU law, what funds it will use to remove the zones and how the Commission thinks that this type […]
United States President Donald Trump has been told to stop playing songs by the Village People at his rallies by the band’s lead singer Victor Willis. Willis’ demands were made via his Facebook page, where the singer confirmed that the Presidents comments and actions around the Black Lives Matter protests broke the camels back. “If […]
The Trump White House is urging the United States Supreme Court to rule in favour of allowing adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples looking to adopt. In a 35-page briefing to the Supreme Court from the Department of Justice, the Trump administration is asking the court to rule in favour of the Catholic Social […]
A French member of parliament has tabled a bill in parliament aimed at banning conversion therapies which are on the rise in France. The bill will see legislation created that will outlaw the practice with the possibility of three years prison and fines of up to €45,000 EUR ($70,000 NZD). MP Laurence Vanceunebrock said the […]
Popular gay dating app Grindr has announced its plan to remove the ethnicity filter in the app’s next release in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In a recent twitter post, Grindr issued its full support for the #BlackLivesMatter movement stating that the company will stand with “the hundreds of thousands of queer people […]