A Christian university in Canada has abandoned a rule forcing all law students to agree not to have gay sex after the Supreme Court ruled against the school. In June, the country’s top court ruled 7-2 in favour of law societies which refused accreditation to the school at Trinity Western University (TWU) in British Columbia. The(…)
Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said “LGBTs have the right to practise whatever [it is] they do in private” (SHAWN THEW/AFP/Getty) Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister has said that LGBT+ people shouldn’t be visibly out. Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail warned that queer citizens must keep their identities secret to be accepted by society. The country’s(…)
Democrats were more than three times as likely as Republicans to say LGBTQ people should be protected, 35% vs. 11%. Partisans agreed in their concern for veterans: 37% of Democrats and 38% of Republicans said the group should be federally protected. Among partisans’ “top 10” groups that they said deserve protections, 28% of Republicans on(…)
A woman is caned in Aceh, Indonesia, where sharia law is in effect (CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty) Two women in Malaysia have been sentenced to six lashings each after being arrested for having sex with each other. They have also been fined RM3,300 (£630) each, and told that they will face a four-month prison term if they(…)
A gay man was left in need of stitches when he and his friend were beaten up by a group in Kiev last weekend in a homophobic attack. The harrowing incident happened after a group of men took issue with Nikita Ponarin’s choice of jeans and his septum piercing, he said in a post on Facebook.(…)
A teenager has been found guilty and fined 50,000 rubes (£600) under Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law. 16-year-old Maxim Neverov, was charged with “propaganda of homosexuality among minors”, for publishing pictures on a Russian social network. The Russian LGBT Network, who provided a lawyer for Neverov, published the story on its website on August 8. According(…)
Arsonists attacked the Lithuanian Gay League’s office in capital Vilnius. (lgl.lt/Instagram) The office of the Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) – the country’s only non-governmental organization representing LGBT+ people – has reportedly been targeted in an arson attack. The incident allegedly took place in Pylimo in the Old Town of Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, at about 4am on(…)
A new report indicates governments around the world are using registration laws to target LGBTI advocacy groups.The report, which OutRight Action International released on Tuesday, indicates 28 percent of the 194 countries surveyed have LGBTI groups that “cannot legally register as LGBTIQ organizations.” “In these countries disclosing an intention to serve LGBTIQ people sets up(…)
Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan on Monday participated in a global LGBTI rights conference that took place in the Canadian city of Vancouver.Sullivan in video remarks at the 2018 Equal Rights Coalition Global Conference on LGBTI Human Rights and Inclusive Development said the U.S. “looks forward to exploring in concrete terms what we can(…)
Activists in Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados this month held their countries’ first-ever Pride parades.Hundreds of people took part in a Pride parade in the Trinidadian capital of Port of Spain on Saturday. Many of the participants were holding Pride flags as they participated in the event. Newsday, a Trinidadian newspaper, reported a health fair(…)