Category: Around the World
Yesterday the Sydney Morning Herald released the 20 recommendations from the Religious Freedom Review headed by Phillip Ruddock, leaving LGBTI advocates and human rights experts concerned about future discrimination for LGBTI people. Anna Brown, director of legal advocacy with the Human Rights Law Centre and co-chair of the Equality Campaign, said: “Australians voted for fairness […]
The Romanian LGBTI community is celebrating as a referendum attempting to exclude same-sex couples from the definition of family in Romania’s Constitution has failed to meet the minimum numbers required. According to local media reports, the turnout for the referendum was well below the required 30% target, resulting in any result from the referendum being […]
The yet to be released report recommends Australia’s religious schools should be legally allowed to ban gay students. Religious schools across Australia will be guaranteed the right to turn away gay students and teachers under the proposed changes from a review into religious freedom. The review seen by Fairfax Media, was commissioned by the Coalition […]
American rapper, singer, and songwriter, Lil Xan has reportedly come-out the closet as gay, with further claims being made that he is in a relationship with Jaden Smith. The 22-year-old from Redlands, California, (real name: Diego Leanos) first posted a video on Instagram, showing himself “coming out” of a closet, before reportedly doing dance moves […]
Switzerland’s National Council has passed a bill make homophobia and transphobia punishable by up to 3 years in prison. The lower house passed the bill 118 votes to 60. The bill will still need to be passed by the upper chamber, the Council of States before it can become law. Socialist council member Mathias Reynard […]
Under the new guidelines phrases such as “No fats, no femmes, no Asians” will now be banned. Grindr has launched a new initiative to combat different forms of discrimination experienced by users of its popular gay dating app, which boasts 3.8 million users globally a day. Titled “Kindr,” the new initiative will tackle issues such […]
Decades of speculation surrounding the sexuality of two characters on the popular children’s show Sesame Street, has finally been put to rest thanks to Writer Mark Saltzman. Confirming which has long been suspected by viewers, the writer has confirmed that Bert and Ernie are in fact a same-sex couple. Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman said that Sesame Street‘s […]
In an exclusive interview with express, the transgender whistleblower says foreign interference in elections “happens all the time.” Chelsea Manning has downplayed the significance of Russia’s interference in the 2016 US election which saw Donald Trump elected President. Manning made the comments during a wide-ranging interview with express, ahead of her first talk in Auckland tonight […]