Category: Around the World
The Kentucky county clerk who gained international infamy in 2015 when she was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples has lost her reelection bid. Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk made famous by her refusal to sign marriage licenses for gay couples, lost Tuesday in her reelection bid for the Rowan […]
28-year-old Jack Chapman (pictured, right) was ordered by his ‘master’ to have silicone injected into his scrotum. In 2010, Linda Chapman’s 20-year-old son Jack fell in love with an American Bear Blogger Dylan Ray Hafertepen (pictured, left) , who would introduce Jack to the dangerous world of body modifying. Eight years on and that introduction […]
Hundreds of LGBT Tanzanians are now in hiding amidst anti-gay crackdown. Hundreds of LGBT activists in Tanzania have gone into hiding after a senior official announced a task force aiming to identify and punish gay people in the nation’s largest city, Dar es Salaam The Guardian reports. Dar es Salaam’s administrative head Paul Makonda says […]
A youth contingent of delegates at the Vatican has made it clear that they want the Catholic church to preach more inclusive messages for LGBTI Catholics. Despite the Roman Catholic Church long having a complicated and murky history with the LGBTI community, young Catholics are now pushing for change and leading the charge for inclusivity. The call […]
The Trump Administration has announced plans to redefine “sex” so that transgender people are excluded from federal discrimination protection. First reported by the New York Times, the move is being described as the administration’s “most drastic move yet in a government-wide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.” The proposed […]
Scientists from Boston University have come up with a self-lubricating condom that can withstand “up to 1000 thrusts!” Boston University scientists have developed a compound that sticks to the latex of a condom, and that also holds a thin layer of water. The result is a condom that stays dry until it is touched with […]
Australian PM has backtracked on his support for religious schools having the right to expel students for being gay. Scott Morrison says he will move discrimination law amendments to make clear religious and private schools will not be able to expel gay and lesbian students. On the day the section emerged, Mr Morrison was addressing […]
A new referendum has been called for in an attempt to thwart a court ruling that has ordered the recognition of same-sex marriage in Taiwan, thanks to anti-LGBTI conservative groups, with the backing of homophobic religious groups from the United States. The referendum follows the country’s top court, the Council of Grand Justices, ruling that the Taiwan […]