Category: Around the World
Opponents of the pride parade threw smoke bombs and tear gas injuring five police officers. A gay pride parade in Ukraine was attacked by protesters leaving a number of marchers and policemen injured. The BBC reports that a number unidentified people attacked the rally alongside the Dnipro river with smoke bombs and stones. Opponents of […]
The United Kingdom Independence party has been banned from participating in the London Pride parade. UKIP has been banned from one of Britain’s biggest gay pride parades, with organisers citing safety concerns as the reason the political party was refused entry. The ban follows the creation of a petition calling for the party to be […]
The Pacific island of Guam officially becomes the first U.S. territory to allow same sex marriage. Marriage equality has now reached the shores of Guam, following a decision by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood at the U.S. District Court on Guam. The decision by Chief Judge Tydingco-Gatewood was made following a lawsuit from Loretta M. Pangelinan and Kathleen […]
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 […]