Category: Around the World
In the wake of the shooting at Pulse and the recent wave of bathroom laws and bills that discriminate against transgender people, the LGBTQ community needs Pride now more than ever. Unfortunately, the dating app Her found some disappointing statistics about how GLBT women feel about Pride festivities. Of the 3003 LGBTQ American women who responded […]
A man who says he was Omar Mateen’s lover has claimed the mass murderer acted out of revenge after finding out one of his partners was HIV positive. Mateen, 29, shot dead 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Florida, on June 12 in America’s worst mass shooting. In an interview with Spanish-language television […]
The official fiction, Brian Whitaker explains, is that gay people don’t exist in the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, the attitudes of family and society are a much bigger problem than the fear of being persecuted When the US supreme court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage last year, the […]
The 28 EU member states have reached a consensus on LGBT rights for the first time in European history. The Council of the European Union reached consensus on Friday on a Netherlands-backed agreement concerning women’s rights, gender equality and the protection of GLBT people across the EU. For the first time ever, the 28 member states agreed at […]
Teargas and rubber pellets have been used by police in Turkey to disperse a GLBT march in Istanbul which had been banned after ultranationalists said “degenerates” could not demonstrate. Riot police cordoned off Taksim Square to prevent the Trans Pride rally taking place during Ramadan. Authorities had earlier panned transgender and gay pride marches during during […]
Orlando Regional Medical Center doctors have said that the number of fatalities as a result of the brutal massacre at Pulse Nightclub in Florida could still rise. The current number of deceased current sits at 49, however hospital officials report that six of the injured people are still critically ill. Another five victims of the […]
Four regulars of the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse have come forward to say that they had seen Omar Mateen at the club before the night of the shooting which claimed forty nine lives. “Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk […]
Presidential candidate Donald Trump has been criticised over self-serving tweets following a shooting at Pulse Gay Club in Florida which left 50 dead. Trump tweeted that he was “right on radical Islamic terrorism” only minutes after a preliminary death toll was released. Many twitter users have condemned this self-congratulatory tweet as selfish and self serving in […]