Category: Around the World
From New Delhi to New York, the planet has marked World AIDS day. New York marked the occasion by lighting up the Empire State Building in red, thousands gathered in New Delhi for a candlelight memorial, while hundreds of school children gathered around a huge red ribbon made from scarves in Dexing City in China’s Jiangxi […]
Smartphone technology has increased the opportunities for casual sex and led to a spike in HIV infections among teenagers in Asia, a new United Nations released on World AIDS day reveals, The epidemic is fastest growing amongst men who have sex with men. Other groups include those who are sexually exploited by or engaged in […]
A majority of Japanese support the introduction of same sex marriage according to a new poll. Fifty-one percent of people polled by researchers from universities and the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research back same sex marriage, the Asahi newspaper reported. Support for same-sex marriage was much higher in younger age groups, with […]
Pope Francis has declined to condemn Uganda’s new anti gay law during his visit. On the eve of Francis’s arrival, the Ugandan parliament passed a bill giving authorities sweeping powers to inspect and dissolve NGOs they suspect of “promoting homosexuality” in a move that could lead to the imprisonment of activists. Critics have said the […]
Gay rights activists have marched in the Indian capital calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Hundreds of gay rights activists danced to drum beats and held colorful balloons as they marched in a parade in New Delhi on Sunday, celebrating what they call the diversity of gender and sexuality the Associated Press reports. Organisers said […]
Cyprus has passed a landmark law that would create civil partnerships for same-sex couples. The country’s parliament voted in favour of the Civil Partnership Bill, with a large majority voting in favour of the law – which proponents say offers much of the same benefits of marriage – with 39 MPs voting in favour and 12 […]
Canada will include gay men as part of a refugee plan that puts the focus on accepting women, children and families from Syria. The Ottowa Citizen reports: “The government is aware that gays could be persecuted, and therefore plans to include them in the selection process aimed at rescuing some of the region’s most vulnerable refugees.” […]
The persecution of millions of people in Commonwealth countries where homosexuality is a illegal is worsening the HIV crisis according a new report. The report commissioned for UK Prime Minister David Cameron describes the anti- gay laws as a British colonial legacy. Forty out of fifty three Commonwealth countries criminalise same-sex relationships. The Commonwealth accounts […]