Category: Around the World
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 […]
LGBT+ rights groups have raised concerns for the safety of the 19 men who were arrested in a violent raid on an LGBT+ youth homeless shelter in Uganda, who are yet to be granted bail. Led by the Mayor of Nsangi Municipality, the Children of the Sun Foundation’s shelter for homeless LGBTQ youth in the […]
A group of transgender sex workers who have been struggling to survive amid the nationwide lockdown in Italy have been supported by a Vatican charity. According to reports by Italian LGBT+ media Gay.it the trans sex workers in Torvaianica, a coastal city outside of Rome, received money from the Vatican after approaching a parish priest […]
Germany has officially outlawed the dangerous practice known as ‘conversion therapy’ for people under the age of 18. The Nation’s parliament known as the Bundestag put the legislation into law banning the practice on Thursday the 7th of May and introduced new penalties for those who attempt to change the sexual orientation of minors. Along […]