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May 162013
May 142013
One of the biggest areas of debate in the discussion of gay rights is the issue of why people are gay: is it a choice, or is it genetic? Or is it somehow socialized into people? Some opponents of gay rights insist that being gay is a choice, while most gay people take the opposite [...]
May 142013
In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burner pitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The former Microsoft programmer and congressional candidate proposed a smartphone app allowing shoppers to swipe barcodes to check whether conservative billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch [...]
May 142013
Twitter has the capacity to ignite revolutions and enable small acts of kindness, but there’s also a darker side to the microblogging network. Floating Sheep, a group of geography academics, created the “Geography of Hate,” which maps racist, homophobic and ableist tweets in the U.S. After searching for all geotagged tweets in North America between June 2012 and April [...]
May 142013
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (pictured with husband Marcus) threatened to leave Minnesota yesterdy if the state goes ahead with its plans to legalize gay marriage. In an interview with a local television station, the conservative firebrand said she believes God will destroy Minneapolis once the legislation is enacted, and wants to be far away when the [...]
May 142013
A Queenscliff church is standing up for equality with a special project designed to raise awareness of gay rights. Uniting Church ministers Kerry Lingham and Charles Gallacher, parents to twin gay sons, would also like people to know that, whatever their sexual orientation, the doors to their church are open wide. For Grovedale teenager, Fraser [...]
May 142013
The Human Rights Commission is looking into a complaint that a Whangarei lodge discriminated against a lesbian couple by insisting they could not share a bed because the owners did not want “unnatural” sexual acts going on in their premises. The commission confirmed yesterday it had received a complaint from Far North couple Jane Collison [...]
May 142013
This year’s Shanghai Pride Week, titled Pride5 in recognition of its fifth anniversary, will take place from 14th to 22nd June. A week-long string of events has been planned to boost the LGBT’s community position in China and raise awareness around LGBT themes including marriage equality, sexual health and societal acceptance. Run by volunteers from [...]
May 142013
A South Carolina couple sued doctors and state social workers on Tuesday for subjecting a 16-month-old child born with both male and female genitalia to what they say was medically unnecessary and irreversible sex-assignment surgery while the toddler was in foster care. The state and federal lawsuits – believed by the couple’s lawyers to be [...]
May 142013
During the last ten years 55 murders of TLGB (Trans, lesbian, gay and bisexual) people were recorded in the country, only 12 became a process of investigation and none obtained judgment. Most of the complaints to the Ombudsman is negligence of authorities. "We are very indignant at the crimes that were committed [...]
May 142013
46% Agree with same-sex marriage, while 30% of the respondents disagreed, according to the latest equipment Mori survey, disclosed this Monday in underline. 22% Agree but considers that the union should be not called marriage. And 3% do not know, does not answer.The difference of opinion by sex [...]
May 142013
The national justice Council (CNJ) approved on Tuesday (14) by majority vote (14 to 1), a resolution which obliges the offices across the country to celebrate the civil marriage and convert the stable same-sex Union in marriage. The notary public cannot reject the request, as currently happens in some cases. The decision [...]
May 142013
A bill to protect gay Ukrainian workers from discrimination based on their sexual orientation has been dropped by the country’s parliament, as hundreds of anti-gay protesters gathered to demonstrate against it. Ukraine’s Parliament postponed the measure indefinitely. It had been backed by the European Union, and was up for a vote on Tuesday. The law [...]
May 142013
Bret Easton Ellis, the novelist who turned being a bad boy into a literary form, has now deployed his considerable powers of invective to attack what he calls the “gatekeepers of politically correct gayness”. In a lengthy diatribe in Out magazine Ellis begins by bemoaning the way that the recent coming out of basketball star Jason Collins [...]
May 142013
A 23-year-old man has been tortured to death in southern Russia, in what investigators are calling a homophobic attack. The severely beaten, naked body of the as-yet-unnamed victim was found in an apartment building in the southern city of Volgograd (pictured) on Saturday, suffering numerous injuries and mutilations. Two men have been detained in connection [...]
