Category: Around the World
Montreal has apologised to the LGBT+ community for historic Police raids and institutional discrimination. As Montreal celebrates Pride, Mayor Denis Coderre and Police Chief Philippe Pichet have issued the apology after calls from the opposition and public to do so. More than 800 people were arrested in the raids that took place from the 1970s […]
A psychologist working in Californian prisons claims she was demoted and threatened by colleagues, including being locked in a room with prisoners, after she reported the mistreatment of LGBT+ inmates. Lori Jesperson has filed a lawsuit against the state of California and has worked for the corrections department for almost ten years, eight of these […]
The xx are returning to our shores and will be donating $1 from every ticket sold to local LGBT+ programmes. Fans have had to wait eight years, but the critically acclaimed band are heading our way to play an all-ages show in Auckland at the Trusts Arena on 11 January. Recalibrating the music world with […]
The Australian High Court is to hear two separate cases from marriage equality advocates challenging the same-sex marriage postal survey. The plebiscite is going ahead in the form of a non-binding postal survey, conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Due to its non-binding nature, the government are not referring to this as a vote […]
A Pakistani politician has introduced a new Bill that aims to protect the fundamental rights of transgender people. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, acknowledges that trans people “constitute one of the most marginalised and disadvantaged communities in the country. They face problems ranging from social exclusion to discrimination, lake of protection in their […]
A UK man has been found guilty of two separate murders in which he used a dating site to stalk his victims. Posing as a police officer, and an M15 agent, Jason Marshall, 28, went to Peter Fasoli’s flat in January 2013. He “arrested” the 58-year-old for being a spy and carried out an “interrogation” […]
A gay sauna in the UK is doing its bit to reduce the transmission rate of HIV and has installed a vending machine filled with free, self-use home testing kits. Now men at The Brighton Sauna can enter a few personal details on a touch screen before they receive a code via text message and […]
Anna Brown. Starobserver.com All Australians should have the same opportunities for love, commitment and happiness and Australian Parliament has the opportunity to make this a reality with a new marriage equality Bill released by five Liberal MPs yesterday. In a debate too often mired in seemingly intractable positions and wedge politics, this Bill is a […]