Category: Around the World
Police in South Korea’s capital Seoul have banned a pride march to appease a number of Christian groups opposed to the parade. Seoul’s capital police agency has banned an GLBT pride march scheduled for June 28th.The march was supposed to be the final event in an almost three-week-long Korean Queer Culture Festival, which kicks off […]
The new law is thought to be one of the most trans friendly in the world. Trans people in Ireland will no longer have to rely on testimony from psychiatrists or endocrinologists to have their gender recognised by the state. Instead, their self-declaration will be accepted, for the purpose of updating passports, driving licences, obtaining […]
Shocking new images have emerged of ISIS executing more gay men, which appears to have the tacit approval of many locals in the ISIS controlled areas according to one University of Auckland academic. Militants fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq have brutally murdered three gay men by throwing them from the top of a high building […]
The Republican Presidential hopeful made the shocking comments on transgender rights at the National Religious Broadcasting Convention. Speaking about transgender rights, Huckabee said “We are now in city after city watching ordinances say that your seven-year-old daughter, if she goes into the restroom, cannot be offended and you can’t be offended if she’s greeted there by a 42-year-old […]
A number of GLBT groups have announced they will boycott Pittsburgh Pride in protest of Iggly Azalea, who they accuse of making homophobic statements. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Pittsburgh chapter of GLSEN and other GLBT groups have announced they are dropping out of the Pride celebrations to protest the inclusion of Australian singer […]
GLBT people across the world are still the victims of widespread violent abuse and discrimination according to a new United Nations report. The United Nations human rights chief has revealed in a new report that gay, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people are victims of “pervasive violent abuse, harassment and discrimination” in all regions of the world. The […]
Marriage equality is no still no closer to becoming a reality in Australia following Tony Abbott’s decision to not even address the issue during today’s coalition party room meeting. The Star Observer reports that at today’s Coalition party room meeting, which comes just a day after Labor leader Bill Shorten introduced a marriage equality bill to […]
A television station in Tennessee has refused to air an equal marriage ad featuring a gay Republican soldier. The WRCB station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, said it chose not to run the ad featuring Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, a US Navy combat veteran, because the issue was too “controversial”. The video, produced by the group Freedom To […]