Category: News
Fiji’s Prime Minister says that same-sex marriage is “rubbish” and that GLBT people in Fiji who want to get married should move to Iceland and “stay there.” According to Radio New Zealand, Frank Bainimarama’s comments came in response to the head of the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre, Shamima Ali, asking if Fiji would be legalising same-sex […]
Body Positive have launched a new website to help inform chemsex users in New Zealand. The website’s launch comes after seven overdoses were reported in Auckland from chemsex use in just 48 hours over the holiday period, including two incidents at an Auckland brothel. The incidents have prompted a warning from police about the dangers […]
A number of British GLBT campaigners are among those to receive New Year honours. UK GLBT website Pink News reports that Tim Sigsworth of GLBT homeless charity The Albert Kennedy Trust was among those to recieve honours, being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). This is also an important recognition of […]
China’s parliament has passed the country’s first law against domestic violence, which covers unmarried people who cohabit but does not protect those in same sex relationships. China previously did not have a special law covering violence in the family, an issue often ignored to avoid bringing shame upon the family in traditional Chinese culture. The […]
US government health officials are lifting the nation’s 32-year-old lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but major restrictions will remain on who can donate. The Guardian reports that officials are replacing the blanket ban with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with another man in the previous […]
Slovenia has voted to repeal same sex marriage in a binding referendum vote. Voters in the former Yugoslavian republic of Slovenia decided to repeal a marriage equality law enacted by the country’s parliament in March. 63% of people who cast ballots in the election voted to repeal the law, according to preliminary tallies. This gave […]
Tasmania will become the first state in Australia to formally apologise over past convictions for consenting gay sex. The apology in state Parliament will help at least a handful of people still living with the stigma of conviction, and the surviving families of others, gay rights advocate Rodney Croome told The Sydney Morning Herald. “For […]
Voting has began in Slovenia on a referendum that could overturn the country’s recently passed marriage equality law. Slovenians have the right to appeal laws passed by the national parliament — as the Marriage and Family Relations Act was in March 2015. Activists collected more than 80,000 signatures to request a referendum on the law. The […]