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Same-sex couples will now be able adopt children in the Australian state of Victoria. Victoria will now allow same sex couples the right to adopt children, after the final passage of the state government’s bill, which delivers on an election promise made by Premier Daniel Andrews in 2014. Despite passage of the new law, some […]
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed that GLBT refugees fleeing Syria will be accepted and settled in the UK. The UK Home Office said it would look at ‘vulnerable criteria’ when looking at refugee cases and will take into account sexual orientation and gender identity. Other vulnerability criteria will include ‘violence and/or torture; refugees […]
A Jamaican lawyer has filed a claim in the Supreme Court of Judicature, challenging the constitutionality of his country’s laws criminalising consensual sex between men. Maurice Tomlinson, who launched the legal challenge is being supported by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. A senior policy analyst at the Legal Network, Tomlinson highlights the deadly consequences of such […]
Justice Minister Amy Adams has ruled out the possibility of a ‘broad brush’ wiping of those convicted of being gay prior to homosexual law reform in 1986. Although those who were convicted of engaging in gay sex prior to 1986 do not need to declare their convictions because of the Clean Slate Act, activists say […]
Venezuela has become the first country in South America to elect a transgendered person to public office. Transgender woman Tamara Adrian has secured a seat as a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly. “Yesterday, Venezuela demolished its own Berlin Wall,” Adrian told US magazine Out. Her candidacy already represented a milestone in Venezuelan politics, but with […]
A Czech court has made a landmark ruling in favour of same-sex adoption. The ruling was made in a case involving 10-year-old twins adopted by a Czech-French couple. The Czech man and his French husband adopted the boys as new-born babies in San Francisco, where they live. However, the children spend their holidays with their […]
The lights introduced for Eurovision were set to remain a permanent fixture – until now. The Austrian city of Linz is set to lose its gay-themed pedestrian traffic lights after a criminal complaint was lodged against council members for allegedly contravening traffic regulations and wasting taxpayers’ money at a cost of 63,000 euros. “Traffic lights are […]
GLBT activists in London have a staged a graphic demonstration to protest against an immigration bill they say will increase discrimination and target vulnerable people on the brink of poverty. With masks covering their faces, activists from Lesbians and Gays support the Migrants (LGSM) stood in front of the Home Office and made small cuts in […]