Category: Around the World
In the wake of the Conservative election victory last week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed John Whittingdale as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport – a politician with a long history of voting against GLBT rights. The new appointment of John Whittingdale has shocked many GLBT activists in the United Kingdom. John […]
World’s only openly gay leader is set to make use of the equal marriage laws introduced by his own government earlier this year. Xavier Bettel will be tying the knot with his partner Gauthier Destenay, who he has been in a civil partnership with since March 2010. The AFP reports that the Luxembourg Prime Minister, who […]
A Kenyan newspaper has printed a list of ‘top homos’ which now has many on the list fearing for their lives. The Newspaper, Citizen Weekly ran with the headline ‘TOP GAYS, LESBIANS LIST IN KENYA OUT’ A number of those listed were until now still closeted. Among those included on the list was a gospel singer […]
New research has shown the UK now leads the world in gay and lesbian parliamentary representation following Thursday’s general election. The research was carried out by Professor Andrew Reynolds, from the GLBT Representation and Rights Research Initiative at the University of North Carolina. In a report, Reynolds calculates 27 GLBT candidates were elected to the […]
A new survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News has found that more Americans would be comfortable with a gay or lesbian president than they would with an evangelical Christian president. The Wall Street Journal/NBC survey found 61 percent of respondents said they would be comfortable with a gay or lesbian president, compared […]
A vicious homophobic attack on a gay couple at a restaurant in Manhattan has been caught on camera. Jonathan Snipes, 32, and Ethan York-Adams, 25 were at a Manhattan restaurant to celebrate Cinco de Mayo when Snipes received a text message informing him there was a death in his family. In haste, he quickly departed the restaurant […]
In an almost impressive new level of intolerance, an Nebraskan woman has decided to file a lawsuit against every single homosexual on earth. In the handwritten petition, 66-year-old Sylvia Driskell claims to be acting as ambassador for the plaintiffs, “God, and His, Son, Jesus Christ.” Appropriately titled Driskell v. Homosexuals, it asks U.S. District Judge […]
An GLBT advocacy group in Kenya has won an historic court victory that will allow it to formally register with the government. The victory could possibly open the door to the granting of greater rights for Kenya’s GLBT citizens. The ruling overturns a bureacratic decision that blocked Kenya’s National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission […]