Category: Around the World
Raymond Roea takes a look at the changing state of LGBTI rights in Japan. In April 2015, Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward made history by becoming the first jurisdiction in East Asia to recognise same-sex couples, through partnership certificates. This was followed within the same month by another landmark step for Japan, when the Ministry of Education urged […]
An assembly of U.S. church leaders have voted overwhelmingly to accommodate gender neural language in their marriage canon. The Episcopal church has voted to allow religious weddings for same-sex couples, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The vote came in Salt Lake City at the denomination’s national assembly.Presented at the church’s triennial […]
BREAKING NEWS: A cross-party bill for marriage equality is expected to be introduced to the Australian Federal Parliament on August 11. The bill will be sponsored by Liberal MPs Warren Entsch and Teresa Gambaro, independents Andrew Wilkie and Cath McGowan and two Labor Party MPs. The Liberal Party room is expected to decide on a free […]
States in America’s deep south have finally began to issue marriage licenses despite attempting to resist Saturday’s Supreme Court decision that gay men and lesbians had a constitutional right to marriage. The New York Times reports that America’s last major pockets of resistance to same-sex marriage were rapidly shrinking as officials in states across the […]
Participants in Istanbul’s pride parade refused to allow heavy handed police tactics deter their celebration. CNN reports that Sunday’s pride parade was interrupted by police who fired pepper spray, tear gas and rubber pellets at thousands when they arrived to march. While the parade has been held peacefully for the past 13 years, the Istanbul […]
More than 26 million Facebook users have changed their Facebook picture to a rainbow flag to celebrate the US Supreme Court’s decision on Saturday to extend marriage equality to all 50 states. In the wake of a landmark Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a right across the United States, an astounding 26 million […]
The US Supreme Court ruled in favour of equal marriage rights in an historic decision on Saturday, ending more than a decade of bitter legal battles. The ruling means the 14 states with bans on same-sex marriage will no longer be able to enforce them. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the plaintiffs asked “for equal […]
AT 10am Washington time, the news came through that the Supreme Court had ruled US states could no longer bar same-sex couples from marrying. The ruling means the US is now the world’s 22nd country to embrace marriage equality — a move that further isolates Australia. This morning, Prime Minister Tony Abbott reiterated his low […]