Category: Around the World
Horrifying new images depicting terrorist group ISIS throwing a gay man to his death have been released. The man was thrown off the highest point in the city of Mosul, Iraq for allegedly committing a crime of “the people of Lot,” meaning an act of sodomy. A second gay man is believed to have been executed […]
Stephen Fry has officially married his partner Elliot Spencer two weeks after revealing the couple planned to wed. Stephen Fry, 57, has married his partner Elliot Spencer, 27, at a register office in Dereham, Norfolk. The information was announced by Fry himself as the actor and presenter posted a picture on Twitter of him and partner, Spencer signing […]
Twitter has suspended Westboro Baptist Church’s twitter account as well as that of its leader, Shirley Phelps-Roeper. UK website Pink News reports that the radically anti gay hate group’s twitter account was suspended yesterday It is unclear as to what the reasons are, but the church did picket Twitter at last year, with Phelps-Roeper, from a […]
Global transgender icon Calpernia Adams will be the special guest at Mardi Gras Gender Trailblazers event at the Seymour Centre, Sydney on Saturday 21 Feb 2015 and will also be involved in the festival’s parade and party. Calpernia Addams first rose to international prominence in 1999 after her lover Barry Winchell was beaten to death whilst […]
One of the world’s most iconic jewellery brands, Tiffany & Co’s has featured a gay couple in it’s new advertising campaign. Tiffany & Co’s US campaign titled “Will You?” photographed by German photographer Peter Lindbergh features a gay couple about to marry. This is the first time the 178 year old company has featured a […]
South Dakota has had it’s ban on same sex marriage struck down by a federal court judge. The Associated Press reports that U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier issued a summary judgment in favor of the six couples who filed a lawsuit last year in Sioux Falls against the state of South Dakota’s ban on gay […]
“Transparent” has just won the Golden Globe for best TV series, musical or comedy. Transparent, created by Amazon, has taken out the Golden Globe for best best television series in a comedy or musical at the Golden Globe awards currently being held in Los Angeles. Transparent has been a hot with critics and is a comedy on […]
The bizarre new series set to premiere on US cable television later today follows four men who admit they are attracted to other men, but choose to live as ‘heterosexuals’ because of their Mormon faith. Gay rights campaigners have called for a the show to be cancelled because of the show’s promotion of the idea that homosexuality […]