Category: Around the World
The brother of U.S. sports journalist and LGBTQ+ ally Grant Wahl has spoken out about his sibling’s sudden death while covering the Qatar World Cup, claiming that he was murdered. Wahl, a correspondent for Meadowlark Media, died shortly after the match between Argentina and the Netherlands on Friday, the 9th of December, in Doha, Qatar, […]
U.S President Joe Biden has confirmed the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner from a Russian penal colony following a prisoner swap with Russia. Griner, who was serving nine years in prison after being convicted on drug charges in August. Griner was reportedly found with vape cartridges containing cannabis oil. The WNBA star told the […]
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has approved the use of a new form of injectable PrEP, giving a two-month HIV prevention option. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) announced the approval of the new form of PrEP on Friday, the 2nd of December, after World Aids Day. Known as Cabotegravir, the […]
Russian citizens will now be subjected to stricter restrictions and discrimination following President Vladimir Putin’s signing of a bill to expand on the so-called ‘gay propaganda law.’ The so-called ‘gay propaganda law,’ was originally signed in 2013 and banned media from ‘promoting’ “non-traditional values,” including same-sex relationships and gender diversity, to citizens under 18 years […]
Two men who were serving in the Indonesian military have been kicked out of the army and jailed for seven months after being convicted of conducting same-sex sexual relations. Despite same-sex sexual relations being legal in most parts of Indonesia – with the exception of the province of Aceh, the nation’s military still bars its […]
The United States Senate has approved the historic legislation providing federal protections for same-sex marriages in a bipartisan vote. The bill, known as the Respect for Marriage Act, received support from both sides of the increasingly polarised political divide. Needing 60 votes to pass, the evenly divided upper chamber voted 61 to 36, with 12 Republicans joining […]
Despite warnings of a potential terror plot against the event, thousands of people turned out to defiantly celebrate in the streets of Johannesburg for the city’s Pride parade. The event, which took place on Saturday, the 29th of October, was the first Pride parade in the city for two years due to Covid bringing the […]
Garmany’s Football Association (DFB) has spoken out about FIFA’s moves to persuade teams to ditch the donning of pro-LGBTQ+ armbands at Qatar’s World Cup, saying the organisation used “extreme blackmail.” The controversy erupted after captains of several European teams, including Germany, England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland, decided to don the OneLove LGBTQ+ […]