Category: Around the World
The United States State Department has announced a special envoy for global GLBT rights. Randy Berry has been named the first ever ‘Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons.’ .Secretary of State John Kerry announced the appointment saying “Defending and promoting the human rights of LGBT persons is at the core of our commitment […]
A medical breakthrough means that creating embryos using DNA from two men or two women may now be possible. The SundayTimes reports that Researchers from Cambridge University and Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science say they have shown for the first time that human egg and sperm cells can be made from stem cells in the skin […]
US President Barack Obama has made an historic mention of GLBT rights in his state of the union speech. Barack Obama has made history again, becoming the first ever US President to mention the GLBT community in a state of the union address. Just days after the United States Supreme court said it would take […]
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 […]