Category: Around the World

Dec 11
Top Swiss Football Referee Comes Out

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 […]

Dec 08
Austria to Legalise Marriage Equality

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 […]

Dec 07
LOVE WINS IN AUSTRALIA AS PARLIAMENT PASSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY

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 […]

Dec 06
How Will LGBT+ Fans Be Treated at the FIFA Tournament in Russia?

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 […]

Dec 06
Double the Number of Assaults During Marriage Debate

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 […]

Dec 05
Aussie Politician Proposes to Partner In Marriage Debate Speech

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” […]

Dec 04
Nature vs Nurture Study Reinforces Stereotypes

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 […]

Dec 04
Death of Man in NSW Ruled a Homophobic Attack, 29 Years Later

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 […]