Category: Around the World
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has again poured cold water on the latest attempt to allow coalition MPs and senators a conscience vote on the issue of marriage equality. Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm last week introduced a private bill to allow same-sex marriage, leading to renewed calls for Mr Abbott to allow coalition MPs and […]
Apple tells Alabama legislator that they “don’t want their corporation tied up in the political battle.” Rep. Patricia Todd, the only openly gay member of the Alabama legislature, has had her plans to name an anti GLBT discrimination bill after Alabama native Apple CEO Tim Cook rejected after Apple rejected the offer. Todd had introduced […]
Today marks World AIDS day. Something the vast majority of the GLBT community would already know of course. The New Zealand’s AIDS foundation held their annual collection on Friday, with the amount raised yet to be announced. This year the World AIDS Day theme is “zero discrimination” and the collections were also being used to […]
Finland’s parliament has granted equal marriage rights to same-sex couples after a vote of 105 — 92. Same sex couples have had access to “registered partnerships” since 2002. However the new law will end the legal distinction between opposite-sex and same-sex partnerships, giving same-sex couples equal access to the rights affiliated with marriage, including adoption and name-change […]
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has reportedly told a senator against introducing a same-sex marriage bill because it could cause more trouble for the government, the senator says. Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm, a key cross-bencher on Australia’s Senate, told reporters: “His argument was that the government’s got enough troubles without this one coming along.” Mr […]
Gay rugby’s biggest tournament is to be hosted by Nashville in 2016. Nashville beat competition from Chicago to host the biannual tournament which is named after Mark Bingham, one of the leading lights in the development of gay rugby and a victim of the September 11 terrorist attacks. International Gay Rugby chairman Jeff Wilson said the bids […]
Saturday’s Pride Parade featured the Priscilla shoe from the iconic 1994 movie musical among other glamorous and exotic sights. Perth’s Pride festival drew to a close on Saturday night with a parade now in it’s 25th year. The nine days of festivities culminated in the Pride Parade through the streets of Northbridge, with many attendees […]
Former executive director of ‘Love In Action’ group set up to ‘cure’ homosexuality has just married his partner in Oklahoma. John Smid who was the executive director of ‘Love In Action’ between 1990 and 2008 has been openly gay since leaving the group and has been in a relationship with his partner Larry McQueen for about […]