Category: Around the World
Caribbean nation’s pride festival makes history. Jamaica made history this week – holding its first ever GLBT pride festival. The Associate Press reports that the week long festival held in the Jamaican capital of Kingston included a flash mob gathering in a park, an art exhibit, a dance party and performances featuring songs and poems […]
Russian police have arrested over a dozen GLBT rights protestors in St Petersburg. Russian police in St. Petersburg have detained several GLBT activists, who held pickets in defence of equal rights on a Russian military holiday, Airborne Forces Day. The arrests occurred after the group of GLBT protestors were assailed by veterans of Russian Airborne Forces, who […]
A 16 year old girl who was stabbed in an attack at Jerusalem Pride has died. Shira Banki, a 16-year-old Israeli teen who was stabbed by an Ultra Orthodox Jewish man during the Jerusalem Pride parade has died of her injuries. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Banki was a high-school student from Jerusalem who was studying […]
Nike’s latest collection would be given the boot from Russia if one conservative lawmaker gets his way. Conservative St. Petersburg City Duma Deputy Vitaly Milonov is campaigning to have Nike’s Summer 2015 collection banned from Russia because it features rainbow-themed merchandise. The collection features rainbow-themed merchandise and according to Nike’s website “celebrates the LGBT community and […]
Dramatic images showed the assailant reaching inside his coat and raising a knife above his head. An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man has been arrested after six people were stabbed while they marched in the Jerusalem Pride parade. The suspect, Yishai Schlisse was convicted of attempted murder after stabbing three during 2005 Gay Pride Parade and has […]
Well-known Auckland Trans Woman Mary Haddock-Staniland speaks exclusively to Levi Joule about the abuse she received from other Trans women following the publicity around the transphobic comments made about her at a Botany Farmers store. Well known Auckland personality Mary Haddock-Staniland has revealed she became the victim of bullying from fellow trans woman after it […]
Shocking new images have emerged of an Iraqi man being brutally executed by Islamic State for being gay. Islamic State is continuing its campaign against those accused of homosexuality with new photos showing the horrific punishment inflicted on its victims the Daily Mail reports. It is unclear how the man’s sexuality was discovered but the jihadi […]
The Australian Labor party has made a promise to introduce a bill legalising marriage equality within the first 100 days of government if it wins the next federal election in 2016. Australian Labor leader Bill Shorten has made a commitment that the party will introduce a bill to legalise same sex marriage within its first 100 days […]