Category: Around the World
GENDR, a membership-based online community that celebrates, shares and respects everyone’s identity on the spectrum, is set to be released to the public tomorrow. The smartphone application was conceptualised by two friends who realized there were no apps available to bring together the people, products and places that connect to the continuum of human sexuality and […]
Figures obtained from UK clinics show referral increases of several hundred percent, leading to long waits for new patients. The number of Britons taking steps to change their gender has shot up dramatically in recent years, leaving vulnerable people waiting years for treatment. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal increases in the […]
Oxford University has announced that it will replace “stale” portraits of “pale” men with gay, female and black icons. Oxford says it was trying to combat criticism that it is “one of the most male, pale and stale places of learning in Britain” but replacing primarily white male portraits with images of a diverse range of notable […]
In a defining vote, the United Nations Human Rights Council has mandated the appointment of an Independent Expert on the “protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation, and gender identity”. It is a historic victory for the human rights of all persons who are at risk of discrimination and violence because of their sexual […]
A video was released today by the Human Rights Campaign and produced by Ryan Murphy paying tribute to the lives of the GLBT people and allies who lost their lives at Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub on June 12, 2016. 49 celebrities came together to honour the victims of the horrific attack, sharing the victim’s lives in brief stories […]
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 […]