Category: Around the World
Finland has granted a Russian couple asylum because of the anti gay persecution they faced in their home country. A Russian gay couple have been granted asylum in Finland because of the discrimination they faced at home over their sexual orientation, Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports. Vladimir Naumov and Vasily Kolesnikov applied for asylum shortly […]
The NRL has publicly announced its support for marriage equality in Australia, with South Sydney Rabbitohs player George Burgess saying those opposed to the move need to get over it. Just a few days before the State of Origin final, the National Rugby League has pledged its support for marriage equality. The NRL’s Chief Operating Officer […]
The decriminalisation of homosexuality it Mozambique makes it one of only a few African countries where same-sex relationships are legal. Mozambique has removed homosexuality from its penal code. The revised code, in force from Wednesday, drops a colonial-era clause outlawing “vices against nature.” While the law was never enforced, GLBT activists are claiming the official decriminalisation […]
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 […]