Category: Around the World
Dozens of traffic lights in Vienna have been changed to show same sex couples crossing the road instead of a traditional lone figure. Vienna has changed the signal images at 120 pedestrian crossings, which also show heterosexual couples – in preparation for the Eurovision Song Contest later this month. Officials said the signals were a […]
Scotland has been named Europe’s best country for GLBT people. ILGA-Europe, an international human rights group, has announced the results of its 2015 Rainbow Europe Index, which ranks how well GLBT and intersexed people are protected in various European nations. After the legalization of same-sex marriage last year, Scotland met 92% of the report’s 48 […]
Swedish peace activists have deployed a neon underwater “defense system” which sends out a welcoming message reading “this way if you are gay” in order to fend off the perceived threat of Russian submarines in Swedish waters. RT.com reports that the animated subsurface neon sign was recently installed off the coast of Stockholm by the Swedish Peace and […]
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 […]