Category: Around the World
The event was held as pressure mounts on the Cook Islands to stop criminalising homosexuality. Louisa Wall travelled to the Cook Islands to take part in an event for Cook Islands Pride which took place on 19 December. The event was hosted by the Te Tiare Association with Wall as the main guest speaker. […]
Hallmark continue to use adverts featuring heterosexual couples getting married. An advertisement featuring two brides kissing at the altar has been taken off US network Hallmark. The removal was a result of a campaign led by conservative group One Million Moms, which is part of the American Family Association. The group had lobbied the CEO […]
Openly gay Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe has joined several other public figures appearing in a video criticising the Australian Government’s current Religious Discrimination Bill. The financed political group that has morphed from pushing marriage equality during that debate to one that inserts themselves into any equality debate, Equality Australia, has released the video across social […]
Two men from Dallas, Texas, have pleaded guilty to a hate crime and other charges for using Grindr to target gay men and commit violence robberies. The men who were accused of forcing victims at gunpoint to withdraw money at ATMs pleaded guilty to one count of committing a hate crime under the Matthew Shepard […]
Social media company TikTok is facing criticism after it was accused of censoring LGBTI users. Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok who have since confirmed the allegations were accused by German digital blog Netzpolitik of censoring content produced by people with disabilities, body positivity advocates and LGBTI people as recently as this past September as a […]
Swe Zin Htet from Myanmar has become the first openly lesbian contestant in the 67-year history of the Miss Universe competition. Despite not coming away with the title, Swe Zin Htet arguably made more of an impact than many by bringing her authentic self to the competition and being open about her sexuality to the […]
Merriam-Webster Dictionary has announced that the 2019 word of the year is ‘they’. The dictionary announced on Tuesday that ‘they’ was its most-searched-for word in 2019, with an increase of 313% over the previous year, and is being credited to both Sam Smith, and the words increased use as a gender non-binary pronoun. “Although our […]
A statement just issued says Folau “does not condone discrimination of any kind” In a surprise move, Rugby Australia have issued an apology to Israel Folau for terminating the former Wallaby’s contract. Israel Folau has settled his seven-month legal dispute with Rugby Australia. (RA) Folau had his multimillion-dollar salary ripped up by RA in April […]