Category: Around the World
Researchers at Drexel University in Pennsylvania have discovered that bisexual women face a disproportionately high rate of anxiety, depression, substance use, and self harm. Annie Shearer, the study’s publication research assistant, said in a press release that “prejudice and stigma from gay and lesbian communities in addition to heterosexual communities” plays a large role in the high levels of depression […]
‘The Lord of the Rings’ star Sir Ian McKellen is set to inaugurate KASHISH 2016 on May 25. The festival will be the 7th edition of South Asia’s biggest LGBT film fest to be held from May 25-29, 2016. One of most successful British stars, Sir Ian McKellen will inaugurate the 7th edition of KASHISH Mumbai […]
Italy has made a leap forward in gay rights this week with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s confidence vote on a bill which grants legal rights to gay couples in the country. After years of lobbying against the oppression of the Catholic Church, the Italian government will now allow same sex couples to share a surname […]
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has compared North Carolina’s HB2 law with the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the formerly segregated Southern states. Lynch is a Greensboro native and the first African-American woman to serve as attorney general. She is a social advocate who has often played important roles in representing and fighting for minority groups. In […]
Hanscom Smith has married his Chinese male partner Lyu Yingzong (Eric Lu) in a ceremony in San Francisco, California. One of the USA’s most senior diplomats and Consul General in Shanghai has married his long-term partner during his holiday leave in the US. Hanscom Smith announced the marriage on the US Consul General Weibo account, saying […]
Disney fans all around the world are rallying together through social media to encourage more GLBT centric storylines from Disney. The figurehead of the rally is Queen Elsa from Disney’s epic animated adventure, Frozen. With rumour of a second Frozen instalment, social media has exploded with hashtag #giveelsaagirlfriend. Speculation over Elsa’s sexuality has been a long […]
An affiliate of terrorist group Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the murder of a journalist in Bangladesh. In the latest of many horrific killings, Xulhaz Mannan, Editor of Bangladesh’s only GLBT magazine, Roopbaan, was found hacked to death in his Dhaka flat. His friend Mahbub Tony who was also a GLBT activist was also killed. It has now […]
Isle of Man has passed same sex marriage leaving Northern Ireland the only place in the Republic of Ireland without marriage equality. Isle of Man was the last place in the Republic of Ireland to legalise homosexuality, happening as late as 1992 and as a crown dependency, remains autonomous from UK rule. The chief minister of the […]