Category: Around the World
A new report form a Indian GLBT NGO has found HIV transmission between gay men and homophobic abuse is on the rise in the country – two years after the nation’s Supreme Court recriminalised homosexuality. The report’s data was compiled from calls to the Naz foundation’s call centre and found that 38 per cent of […]
Canada has elected a new pro GLBT Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party won the highly anticipated election, besting incumbent Stephen Harper, a member of the Conservative Party, and Tom Mulcair of the left wing New Democratic Party. The Liberal Party victory ends nine years of Conservative Party rule. Outgoing Conservative Prime Minister […]
Kenya’s leader says GLBT issues are not a priority for the African state. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta during an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria said his country has “more pressing issues” than GLBT rights. “This is not an issue that they are going to put at the center,” Kenyatta told Zakaria during the CNN interview […]
A Russian court has jailed six members of the “Occupy Pedophilia” anti gay terrorist group to prison terms. Police in the Russian region of Ural arrested nine men earlier in 2015 who were luring unsuspecting young victims through personal ads. The group manipulated the young men, many of them teens, who would show up for a ‘date’. […]
A new federal report has called for a ban on conversion therapy in the United States. The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released a new report calling for an end to the practice of “conversion therapy” for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender young people. The Obama administration backed a petition in April to ban […]
An elderly couple in Melbourne have been ordered to remove a gay pride flag from their balcony or risk legal action. Murray Sheldrick, 78, and his partner James Bellia, 72 told The Age they received a “nasty” letter from their Body Corporate demanding that the couple remove the flag from their balcony, or risk a […]
U.S researchers say they’ve come up with a formula that can show someone’s sexual orientation by looking at genetic changes. The formula which involves looking at a person’s DNA is up to 70 per cent accurate the researchers say. It has long been believed that sexuality has a biological basis – with certain genes linked […]
The Australian state of Victoria is set to introduce a new law which would grant same sex couples the right to adoption. Thousands of same-sex couples with children in the Australian state of Victoria will soon have the right to be jointly recognised as parents under their state law, under new adoption laws to be […]