Category: News
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 […]
A vicious homophobic attack on a gay couple at a restaurant in Manhattan has been caught on camera. Jonathan Snipes, 32, and Ethan York-Adams, 25 were at a Manhattan restaurant to celebrate Cinco de Mayo when Snipes received a text message informing him there was a death in his family. In haste, he quickly departed the restaurant […]
In an almost impressive new level of intolerance, an Nebraskan woman has decided to file a lawsuit against every single homosexual on earth. In the handwritten petition, 66-year-old Sylvia Driskell claims to be acting as ambassador for the plaintiffs, “God, and His, Son, Jesus Christ.” Appropriately titled Driskell v. Homosexuals, it asks U.S. District Judge […]
An GLBT advocacy group in Kenya has won an historic court victory that will allow it to formally register with the government. The victory could possibly open the door to the granting of greater rights for Kenya’s GLBT citizens. The ruling overturns a bureacratic decision that blocked Kenya’s National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission […]
A Tasmanian couple will marry in New Zealand in order to fulfil the dying wish of a woman who has only weeks to live. Sandra Yates and Lee Bransden have been together for eight years and want nothing more than to marry. Lee is now terminally ill with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and has […]
Australia’s ambassador to France has offered his resignation after Prime Minister Tony Abbott reportedly told his same sex partner to wait in the car when Abbott arrived in Paris on ANZAC day. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the ambassador, Stephen Brady, was on the airport tarmac with his partner of 32 years, Peter Stephens, waiting to meet […]
Vangardist, a leading German men’s monthly has printed its May issue using ink infused with HIV positive blood. Three people living with the HIV virus donated blood for the 3000 copies of the May issue of the German monthly Vangardist. The magazine says the use of HIV positive blood was to “break the taboo” and stigma […]
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has spoken out in favour of making marriage equality a reality in Australia. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Joyce who is openly gay says “As I’ve gone and talked about my sexuality, and talked about diversity in general, I’ve had people coming up to me in the business community and saying that […]