Category: Around the World
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has compared North Carolina’s HB2 law with the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the formerly segregated Southern states. Lynch is a Greensboro native and the first African-American woman to serve as attorney general. She is a social advocate who has often played important roles in representing and fighting for minority groups. In […]
Hanscom Smith has married his Chinese male partner Lyu Yingzong (Eric Lu) in a ceremony in San Francisco, California. One of the USA’s most senior diplomats and Consul General in Shanghai has married his long-term partner during his holiday leave in the US. Hanscom Smith announced the marriage on the US Consul General Weibo account, saying […]
Disney fans all around the world are rallying together through social media to encourage more GLBT centric storylines from Disney. The figurehead of the rally is Queen Elsa from Disney’s epic animated adventure, Frozen. With rumour of a second Frozen instalment, social media has exploded with hashtag #giveelsaagirlfriend. Speculation over Elsa’s sexuality has been a long […]
An affiliate of terrorist group Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the murder of a journalist in Bangladesh. In the latest of many horrific killings, Xulhaz Mannan, Editor of Bangladesh’s only GLBT magazine, Roopbaan, was found hacked to death in his Dhaka flat. His friend Mahbub Tony who was also a GLBT activist was also killed. It has now […]
Isle of Man has passed same sex marriage leaving Northern Ireland the only place in the Republic of Ireland without marriage equality. Isle of Man was the last place in the Republic of Ireland to legalise homosexuality, happening as late as 1992 and as a crown dependency, remains autonomous from UK rule. The chief minister of the […]
Xulhaz Mannan, Editor of Bangladesh’s only GLBT magazine, Roopbaan, was found hacked to death in his Dhaka flat. On top of being the first editor of a GLBT magazine in the sexually conservative country, Mannan was also a top gay rights activist and worked at the US development agency USAid. He launched Roopbaan in 2014 in an […]
North Carolina Democrats have filed a bill with aims to reverse the state’s anti-GLBT law, HB2. This follows a string of boycotts and lost investment ventures in the state in response to Governor McCrory refusing to veto the damaging bill which encourages discrimination against GLBT people. House Bill 946, sponsored by Darren Jackson, Graig Meyer, Susi Hamilton, and […]
Youtube sensation and self named Liberal Redneck has perfectly explained gender neutral bathroom panic in a colourful new video. Otherwise known as Traw Crowder, he explains why the conservative defence of protecting children is ridiculous and defends trans people’s right to use bathrooms aligning when the gender they identify as. The video was posted in […]