Category: Around the World
Austria’s highest court has overturned a ban on marriage equality, with same-sex couples set to be able to marry starting in 2019. The often conservative country will not immediately make marriage equality legal, unless parliament votes to change the law before December 31, 2018. A lesbian couple, alongside four other couples, who were denied the […]
Dean Smith’s marriage equality bill has passed parliament and will become law in Australia, after passing the House of Representatives, with only four MPs voting against it. After passing the Senate last week, the marriage equality bill has been debated in the lower house since Monday. MPs made a number of memorable addresses to parliament this […]
The FIFA World Cup is to be held in Russia next year and following the debacle of the Sochi Winter Games, the tournament’s anti-discrimination advisors are set to issue guidelines for LGBT+ community members. With its “gay propaganda” laws still in place, you’d be forgiven for wondering what will happen to fans at the FIFA […]
The marriage equality debate was an extremely difficult time for LGBT+ communities in Australia, with the number of verbal and physical assaults more than doubling during the three-month postal survey, compared the six months prior. A survey of 9,500 LGBT+ Australians, as well as their friends and family, found that the postal survey had “some […]
As Australian politicians stood in the House of Representatives to debate marriage equality, one lawmaker took the opportunity during his speech to propose to his partner, who was sitting in the public gallery. Tim Wilson of the Liberal Party gave his speech in the House saying that the marriage equality debate has been “the soundtrack” […]
Photos of identical twins as children are being used in a controversial study by scientists at the University of Essex who are asking strangers to guess the sexual orientation of those in the photos, now adults. The study reinforces sexuality stereotypes and societal constructs of gender. Those who were asked to guess the sexuality of […]
The coroner has ruled that a man who fell to his death in New South Wales was likely to have been killed as the result of a homophobic attack. Scott Johnson, 27, from the United States, was found dead at the bottom of a 200-foot cliff in December 1988. Johnson was naked and it was […]
The Australian Senate has passed Dean Smith’s marriage bill, with 43 senators voting for the proposed legislation, and 12 voting against it. The bill will now be sent to the House of Representatives where it will be debated next week. If passed without amendment, it will then go on to the Governor-General for Royal Assent, […]