Category: Around the World
China’s parliament has passed the country’s first law against domestic violence, which covers unmarried people who cohabit but does not protect those in same sex relationships. China previously did not have a special law covering violence in the family, an issue often ignored to avoid bringing shame upon the family in traditional Chinese culture. The […]
US government health officials are lifting the nation’s 32-year-old lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but major restrictions will remain on who can donate. The Guardian reports that officials are replacing the blanket ban with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with another man in the previous […]
Slovenia has voted to repeal same sex marriage in a binding referendum vote. Voters in the former Yugoslavian republic of Slovenia decided to repeal a marriage equality law enacted by the country’s parliament in March. 63% of people who cast ballots in the election voted to repeal the law, according to preliminary tallies. This gave […]
Tasmania will become the first state in Australia to formally apologise over past convictions for consenting gay sex. The apology in state Parliament will help at least a handful of people still living with the stigma of conviction, and the surviving families of others, gay rights advocate Rodney Croome told The Sydney Morning Herald. “For […]
Voting has began in Slovenia on a referendum that could overturn the country’s recently passed marriage equality law. Slovenians have the right to appeal laws passed by the national parliament — as the Marriage and Family Relations Act was in March 2015. Activists collected more than 80,000 signatures to request a referendum on the law. The […]
A Miami man has been given an 11 year jail sentence for operating a gay sex slave ring. Andras Janos Vass recieved the jail sentence for his role in an operation that forced at least a half-dozen men to have sex with paying customers around the clock. The victims were lured from Hungary, where they […]
Malta is set to become the first country in Europe to ban conversion therapy. The country’s government has unveiled a ‘Affirmation of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression’ bill – which would outlaw so-called ‘conversion’ therapy. The practise of attempting to ‘cure’ someone’s sexuality is considered harmful by most experts – but is yet […]
The Mexican state of Tabasco has voted to ban gay men looking to have a child by surrogacy. The Gulf coast state of Tabasco is currently the only Mexican state that allows surrogacy, supposedly on a non-commercial basis. It has attracted many foreign and gay couples looking to have children. However, The Guardian now reports that the […]