Category: Around the World
More news confirming homophobia is running rampant in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has mocked the American embassy in Moscow for flying a rainbow flag during global pride month. Putin made the comments in response to a post on the embassy’s official Instagram account which read “today we conclude the celebration of the Month of […]
Turkey’s President has launched an attack on members of the LGBT+ community in a public speech where he defended homophobic comments by the leader of the Turkish version of the Red Cross. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused LGBT+ people in his country of “sneaking up on our national and spiritual values again” and claimed queer […]
After becoming the first Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage, Taiwan holds a pride parade for the entire planet’s LGBTQ population. Taiwan staged a pride parade for the entire planet as one of the few countries (including New Zealand) that can lay claim to having successfully contained COVID 19. Over 200 people gathered in Liberty […]
The attack is now being treated as an act of terrorism. As police in the United Kingdom treat Sunday’s (NZ time) stabbing spree in the town of Reading as a terror act, The Guardian has now reported that all three victims were gay men. David Wails, a scientist, Joe Ritchie-Bennett, and history teacher James Furlong […]
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 […]