Category: Around the World
The Law and Justice Party, which is staunchly opposed to GLBT rights, has won a decisive victory in the Polish general election. The ruling centre right Civic Platform party lost to its right wing challenger, with exit polls suggesting the Law and Justice Party had won 39% of the vote, and a projected 242 of the parliament’s 460 […]
The Vatican’s three week Synod has ended in disappointment for gay Catholics. As the controversial synod closed this weekend, the church’s bishops voted on a summary document which decided against overhauling the church’s teaching on gay Catholics. The bishops concluded that church teaching on GLBT people would remain, agreeing that while GLBT people in the […]
Australian-born academic and writer Germaine Greer has said that in her opinion, transgender women are “not women”. The well known second wave feminist made the comments in an interview with the BBC where she claimed that “a great many women” who are not transgender think transgender women – who she refers to as “male to female […]
123 couples said “I do” in a mass wedding held in Taipei. Despite same sex marriage not being legal in the country, 10 same-sex couples exchanged vows at the annual event for the first time. Over 16,000 couples have participated in mass wedding ceremonies hosted by the Taipei city government since 1973. For the first […]
Two Russian MPs have presented a draft bill calling for people who come out as gay to serve up to 15 days behind bars. Ivan Nikitchuk and Nikolai Arefyev are proposing a fine of up to 5,000 rubles ($110) for people who publicly say they are gay. The two communist MPs propose even harsher measures […]
Same sex relations is now punishable by up to 100 strokes of the cane in Indonesia’s Aceh provence. The law, passed in 2014 but only now being enforced, has faced opposition by rights groups. It applies to both locals and foreigners. The law “outlaws anal sex between men and ‘the rubbing of body parts between […]
Civil Unions have now come into effect in Chile. As Chile’s new civil unions law went into effect, dozens of same sex couples began arriving at civil registry offices early to officially validate their unions ABC news reports. The civil unions law was debated in Chile’s Congress for over a decade until it was passed […]
A German political party is seeking to ban the representation of GLBT people from schoolbooks, TV and radio. In a Russian-style ‘gay propaganda’ ban, the Baden-Württemberg chapter of Germany’s leading Eurosceptic party Alternative für Deutschland (AFD) is proposing a ban on GLBT representation in schoolbooks, television and radio. The party says it will push GLBT […]