Category: Around the World
An Italian court has ordered cities to stop recognising the existing overseas marriages of same-sex couples. Italy’s highest administrative court annulled a ruling by a lower court which had earlier found in favour of cities from Rome to Naples and Milan which had registered such marriages, despite the fact Italy has no legal framework for […]
Nigel Owens, who is openly gay will make history refereeing the Rugby World Cup final between the All Blacks and Wallabies. The Rugby World Cup decider won’t be the first time Owens has refereed a game between New Zealand and Australia, the Welsh ref was recently in Auckland to referee the Bledisloe Cup decider at Eden Park. […]
Shocking new images have emerged of Islamic State brutally executing two men they accuse of being gay. Islamic State (ISIS) militants and their supporters stoned to death two men accused of being gay in Aleppo, Syria. The graphic images published on terrormonitor.org show a crowd, including children, throwing rocks at two bound and blindfolded men […]
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 […]