Category: Around the World
A man has allegedly been deported from Australia because PrEP and sex toys were found in his luggage at the border. The German man had left Australia to holiday in Japan for a week and was flying back into Cairns in order to extend his tourist visa when he was detained overnight and deported yesterday. […]
Police in Uganda shut down Uganda’s only LGBT+ film festival after receiving a tip about its secret location. This year’s Queer Kampala International Film Festival (QueerKIFF) was only the second time it has been held and was due to run over the course of a weekend. Organisers received a warning shortly before 2 pm on […]
A top Swiss football referee has come out as gay and says it’s worth it if it helps just one footballer or another referee. Pascal Erlachner came out in an interview with Swiss newspaper Blick and is thought to be the first openly gay man in Swiss professional football. Having refereed 73 Super League games […]
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” […]