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A picture book featuring gay penguins in bondage gear with whips somehow found its way into the collection of Kaiapoi preschool, upsetting some. Gus and Waldo’s Book of Love features a pair of same sex male penguins in bondage gear with whips and the line “they love each other with a dash of spice.” The book written […]
Unable to legally marry in Australia, Sandra Yates and Lee Bransden travelled to Rotorua, New Zealand with the help of money raised on a crowdfunding website to tie the knot. Lee Brandsen’s dying wish was to marry her partner Sandra Yates. The couple have been together for the past eight years. Lee is now terminally ill with end-stage […]
The Luxembourg Prime Minister became the first EU leader tom enter into a same-sex union Xavier Bettel tied the knot with his partner Gauthier Destenay,who he has been in a civil partnership with since March 2010, on Friday at a private ceremony. The world’s only openly gay leader made use of the equal marriage laws introduced by […]
The Annual International AIDS Candlelight Memorial will take place at venues throughout New Zealand on Sunday 17th May. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial now in its 32nd year, is one of the world’s oldest and largest grassroots mobilisation campaigns for HIV awareness in the world. Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place […]
A monument celebrating the contribution of GLBT veterans in the United States will be unveiled in a national cemetery near Chicago on Memorial Day. The Guardian reports that the monument is a black granite slab flanked by two blocks of pale granite, that will feature the five seals of the military’s main branches – the army, […]
A Tongan church group have set up a protest outside an GLBT rights conference in the nation’s capitol, telling “evil” and “immoral” GLBT rights advocates to “go home.” Kaniva News reports that the Christian protestors have hung a banner on the Nuku’alofa waterfront telling GLBT activists across the road at a conference to “go home” as […]
A number of large corporations have come out in support of marriage equality in Ireland ahead of the referendum on May 22. Twitter has joined Google and EBay in lending its support to the ‘yes’ campaign in the Irish referendum campaign. Twitter announced it’s support of the ‘yes’ campaign and says allowing wedlock for two people of […]
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has threatened to slit the throats of gay men in a recent speech. Addressing an audience last week in the town of Farafeni as part of a nationwide tour, Jammeh said, “If you are a man and want to marry another man in this country and we catch you, no one […]