Category: Around the World
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 […]
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 […]