In a sign of discord within the Boy Scouts of America ahead of a key May vote, Scouting leaders in Baltimore and Los Angeles proposed their own resolutions to end the group’s longstanding ban on adult gay and lesbian leaders. The proposals, submitted by leaders of the Los Angeles Area Council and Northeast Region Executive [...]
The headline, late last week, sounded like good news: the leadership of the Boy Scouts of America was recommending to its governing board that it no longer bar openly gay young people from participating in Scouting. There are almost 2.7 million Boy Scouts in the United States between the ages of seven and twenty-one. Then [...]
Section 377 of the Penal Code may not mean much to people in the UK today, but the law which criminalises homosexual acts is a British legacy still found in many former colonies in the Far East. However, it is now being challenged in Singapore. It is Monday night and the club is jam-packed. It [...]
In recent times, we have witnessed in Argentina valuable and necessary debates and transformations, both legal and social, in the field of discrimination by sexual condition. We know that laws and policies are not isolated from society, they are the result of the latter, and at the same time they can modify it. In this [...]
In Moscow last week came into force the law on so-called "Hyde Park", where citizens can gather and hold rallies without notifying City Hall, but only for three days by notifying the Park Administration. The site is scheduled to open on May 1 and in Gorky Park in Sokolniki. Began accepting applications on April 15. However, according to the newspaper "Izvestia", [...]
The highly influential and respected Grand Council of Customary Villages (MUDP) plans to launch continuous campaigns to eliminate discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS across Bali. The campaigns, slated to start in July, will first target 450 out of the total 1,500 customary villages on the island. MUDP is an umbrella organization for nearly 1,500 customary [...]
An ordinance to ban discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people failed in the city council of Pocatello Thursday night. The close vote was a setback for gay rights advocates. Pocatello Mayor Brian Blad cast the deciding no vote, making it four against, three in favor. The ordinance would have made it a misdemeanor [...]
19 students of Opoku Ware Secondary High School in the Ashanti regional capital of Kumasi have been dismissed for practicing homosexuality in the school. According to XYZ News’ Ashanti regional correspondent, Isaac Bediako Justice, four out of the 19 students are in their first year while 15 are second and final year students. According to [...]
Pledging that “we must right these wrongs,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon earlier this week denounced discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, and declared that religion, culture and tradition can never be a justification for denying them their basic rights. “Governments have a legal duty to protect everyone,” he said in a video message [...]
Today, the Senate introduced a comprehensive immigration reform bill that included many important provisions but did not include critically important protections for same-sex binational couples and their families. Lambda Legal issued the following statement from Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director of Lambda Legal: “We are pleased that Congress is moving forward on this vital issue. Reforming [...]
Ataman "Orthodox Union of Cossacks Irbis» Andrey Polyakov from St. Petersburg had criticised the law banning promotion of homosexuality, which operates in the city. In his view, homosexuals, you need to fight through the promotion of "Orthodox values" rather than bans. He said this in an interview to the newspaper "arguments and facts" in St. Petersburg on 15 April. He said he does not support the [...]
Queer Avenger’s are pleased the Marriage Equality (Marriage Amendment) Bill has passed, and say “well done to everyone involved”. “Now it is time to focus on the bigger issues” says Kassie Hartendorp (pictured), member of QA. “Marriage Equality is all well and good, but it is not going to end the violence and hatred that [...]
This Saturday, April 13, 20 activists of Act Up-Paris, of the collective March 8 for all, and the rhinestones are chained to the Machine from the Moulin Rouge. The Concert Hall hosted an event of an abolitionist group, 'Abolition 2012', which calls in particular for the criminalisation of clients of sex workers. To symbolize the criminal character [...]
The One in Nine Campaign, the feminist organisation behind last year’s controversial disruption of Joburg Pride, has been slammed for excluding transgender and intersex women from one of its training programmes and implying that they are not ‘real women’. According to four trans and intersex groups – Gender DynamiX, S.H.E, Transgender and Intersex Africa and [...]
