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Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 6:29pm By Tim McElreavyCanada is at the forefront of gay and lesbian rights worldwide. Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969, and later the Charter of Rights and Freedoms definitively prohibited any discrimination based on sexual orientation. In 2005, Canada became...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 9:13pm By Dr Martha LeeThe first openly gay president of Ireland could be Senator David Norris, a Dublin-based politician. Norris, 65, a former Trinity College Dublin lecturer who has led the campaign for gay rights in Ireland for a generation, is a highly respected...
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Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 10:47pm By Dr Martha LeeIndia’s first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride shop has opened up in Mumbai. The flagship shop, Azaad Bazaar, sells a range of items such as mugs, T shirts, and ashtrays to encourage lesbians and gays to have pride in...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 11:20pm By Dr Martha LeeThe first openly gay couple in Malawi to be engaged, Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza have been charged with offences that could lead to a 14-year jail sentence, put in jail and beaten. In their first interview since being jailed, the pair...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 2:42pm By John OzimekLGBT activists in the UK are up in arms this week as government plans to reduce the legal protections already afforded to those communities came one step closer to becoming law. The offending proposals are contained in an Equality Bill, which last...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 9:15am By Matthew LawrenceTwo odd pieces of news on the gay rights front: Salt Lake City becomes the first place in Utah to pass anti-discrimination legislation against gays and lesbians. The law, which provides gays and lesbians protection from housing and employment...
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Monday, November 2, 2009 - 5:47pm By Theresa IkardTaipei, the capital of Taiwan, hosted its first gay pride parade seven years ago. In 2003, that inaugural parade drew 500 participants. In 2006, there were 3000, then 5000 in 2007, and 18,000 last year. This year, the reported numbers were close to...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 1:44pm By Tim McElreavyHope College, a small liberal arts college in western Michigan, has nixed an invitation to Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the film Milk, to participate in a roundtable discussion on sexuality. Dean of Students Richard Frost...
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Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 9:56am By Jessica O'ReillyThe same Conservatives who so ardently oppose same-sex marriage rights insist that two Texan men must remain married. The couple has sought a divorce in Texas court, but is facing opposition from Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott, Governor...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 7:49am By Jessica O'ReillyUK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has endorsed A Day In Hand Campaign for queer rights. The program, founded by David Watkins, asks supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) rights to hold hands with someone of the same sex as part of a...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 9:36am By Jessica O'ReillyAs police in Fort Worth, Texas, scramble to improve diversity training after the raid of a gay bar that left one man with a head injury and blood clot behind his eye, a more progressive police department across the pond is actively reaching out to...
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Monday, April 6, 2009 - 3:43pm By Tim McElreavy365 Gay reports that two Russian gay activists have been convicted of promoting homosexuality in the Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow. Ryazan is the only region in Russia with a law than bans discussion of homosexuality with minors. Nikolai Baev...
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Monday, March 30, 2009 - 11:50am By Chris HallSecretary of Defense Robert Gates told Fox News this weekend that lifting the ban on gay and lesbian servicemembers is going to have to wait until the administration deals with more pressing issues. “I think the president and I feel like we've got a...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 10:25am By Chris HallThe media has worked itself into a tizzy over an interview that Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) made earlier this month in which he called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a homophobe. Maybe that shouldn't seem newsworthy if you've been...
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