Category: Around the World
David Mundell, conservative Scottish MP and current Secretary of State, has publicly announced that he is gay. Since the announcement, Mundell, 53, has been meet with praise by both British Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon. Mundell is the first openly LGBTI+ MP to sit on the cabinet.
As one of the world’s top 5 LGBTI festivals, Melbourne’s long running Midsumma Festival features 145 social and community events running from 17 January to 7 February 2016. Over 100,000 people are expected to descend upon Alexandra Gardens to kick off proceedings with the Midsumma Carnival – a free celebration of diversity and pride.
Filed by a gay man in Changsha, the lawsuit names a civil affairs bureau in the capital of the Hunan Province, for refusing to receive his marriage registration application. The lawsuit is believed to be the first to challenge the lack of equal marriage opportunity in China. The man, who used the pseudonym Sun Wenlin, […]
Fiji’s Prime Minister says that same-sex marriage is “rubbish” and that GLBT people in Fiji who want to get married should move to Iceland and “stay there.” According to Radio New Zealand, Frank Bainimarama’s comments came in response to the head of the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre, Shamima Ali, asking if Fiji would be legalising same-sex […]
A number of British GLBT campaigners are among those to receive New Year honours. UK GLBT website Pink News reports that Tim Sigsworth of GLBT homeless charity The Albert Kennedy Trust was among those to recieve honours, being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). This is also an important recognition of […]
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 […]