Category: Around the World
Vangardist, a leading German men’s monthly has printed its May issue using ink infused with HIV positive blood. Three people living with the HIV virus donated blood for the 3000 copies of the May issue of the German monthly Vangardist. The magazine says the use of HIV positive blood was to “break the taboo” and stigma […]
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has spoken out in favour of making marriage equality a reality in Australia. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Joyce who is openly gay says “As I’ve gone and talked about my sexuality, and talked about diversity in general, I’ve had people coming up to me in the business community and saying that […]
Nigel Farage has denied his party is anti gay after releasing it’s ‘Christian manifesto.’ In the manifesto, titled ‘Valuing Our Christian Heritage’, the party reveals that it will offer legal protection to those who oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds in the workplace, if it wins the 2015 general election. However, Farage denies that the […]
GLBT Russians were allowed to march in the May Day march in St Petersburg this year. May 1 is a public holiday in Russia which is usually marked by state-sanctioned political demonstrations. However, a GLBT group was part of this larger rally on Friday, which saw almost 100,000 people take to the streets, in an […]
22 year old Mr Gay Germany Klaus Burkart has beaten 20 other men to take home the Mr Gay World title. The 1.83m tall milk technician from Wangen im Allgäu was presented with the Mr Gay World sash and trophy by 2014 winner Stuart Hatton in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday night. Burkart says […]
A US politician in the state of North Dakota who only recently voted against a gay rights bill has been caught out sending nude pictures of himself on popular gay dating app Grindr. Randy Boehning, a Republican representative from Fargo, North Dakota, was outed by Fargo newspaper ‘The Forum’. In an interview the next day, […]
Hillary Clinton changed the colours of her presidential campaign logo on social media to the rainbow colours symbolising the GLBT rights movement, shortly before the Supreme Court heard arguments on same sex marriage. Clinton’s logo changed on her Facebook and Twitter pages Tuesday morning US time. Facebook pages for individual state branches of the Clinton campaign also […]
The Sinn Fein proposal to allow same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland was narrowly defeated in the Northern Ireland Assembly by 49 votes to 47. The motion to introduce marriage equality to Northern Ireland was introduced by the left wing Irish Republican party Sinn Fein. Democratic Unionist Party Assembly member Peter Weir said his party opposed […]