Category: Around the World
Despite a poor record in progress for LGBT+ equality rights, Hungary has lifted all bans on blood donation for men who have sex with men (MSM), ahead of more progressive nations. Bans on blood donation for MSM are a relic from the HIV/AIDS crisis-era with most countries requiring the donors to not have sex for […]
Public Health England has published instructions on how to fight COVID-19 with an old t-shirt transformed into both a crop-top and a face-mask. The Department of Health and Social Care’s instructional information guide follows the British government’s announcement this week that citizens should aim to wear face coverings in some shops and public transport. However, […]
After 25 years of service, a former police lieutenant believes that he was fired for being gay and HIV positive. Steven Prendergast who has now filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles first walked the streets as a police officer back in 1995. Prendergast who had been promoted regularly throughout his employment soon […]
One of Israel’s leading rabbi believes that gay teens should be forced to conduct conversion therapy sessions in a bid to “help people be straight again.” Yigal Levinstein, a co-head of a Zionist pre-military Academy, made the claims about the dangerous and ineffective practice during a Zoom class. “It’s possible to help people be straight […]
In a historic move, Brazil’s top court has ruled that the nation’s ban on men who have sex with men (MSM) from donating blood is unconstitutional. According to Reuters, seven of the 11 judges on the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled in favour of lifting the ban, which prohibited MSM from donating blood for 12 months. […]
Following the murder of two trans women in Puerto Rico last month, a transgender woman has been found stabbed to death in Southeast Missouri raising concerns by LGBT+ groups about an epidemic of violence against trans people. The woman, Nina Pop, was found dead in her apartment with multiple stab wounds, according to the Associated […]
Turkish officials, led by President Recep Erdogan, have banned children from drawing a rainbow and hanging pictures on window panes as it is considered a worldwide LGBT+ conspiracy. At the end of March, the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art invited children who are now unable to attend school due to COVID-19 quarantine to draw a […]
A lesbian couple in the U.S state of South Carolina are heading to court to fight policy that enables discrimination against same-sex couples seeking to foster children. Brandy Welch and Eden Rogers were told that they failed to meet the criteria by a government-funded adoption agency simply because they are a lesbian couple. Using ‘religious […]