MP Dawn Butler gives support to Warwick Rowers’ annual charity calender campaign for Sport Allies It wasn’t the hot air in the House of Commons chamber that left MPs feeling all flustered recently. Rather, the scantily clad Warwick Rowers had the corridors of power steaming up after a cheeky photoshoot with […]
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Undercover investigation exposes “gay conversion therapies” still happening in the UK A petition calling on the government to ban gay conversion therapy has been launched after it was exposed by Liverpool Echo journalist Josh Parry that the practice is still taking place in the UK. Earlier this year a church in […]
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Stonewall Scotland say Act repeal could “send very negative signal” to LGBT communities Members of the Scottish Parliament have been hearing evidence on why the Offensive behaviour at Regulated Football Matches Act should be repealed. The Act was brought forward in response to a number of controversial incidents associated mostly with […]
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A gender-neutral campaigner has been given the go-ahead for a challenge that would allow for gender-neutral passports. Christie Elan-Cane says the UK’s passport application process says it’s wrong for people to have to offer their gender in applications. They are calling for another option, allowing people to put an ‘X’ instead […]
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The Trump/Pence administration is under fire from LGBT rights organisations after the vote The US is one of 13 countries to have voted against a United Nations resolution condemning the death penalty for having “consensual same-sex relations”. Although the vote condemning the death penalty has been passed, America joined Botswana, Burundi, […]
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Two German men are the first Bräutigams und Bräutigams (groom and groom) under the new law German LGBT+ campaigners and supporters of equal marriage celebrated yesterday as the first same-sex couples got hitched in the country. Bodo Mende, 60, and Karl Kreile, 59, who have been together for 38 years, were married in Schöneberg, […]
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A new poll of Australians shows the country has voted overwhelmingly for equal marriage, despite increasingly divisive campaigning from the ‘no’ camp. This ‘ironic’ video from the Coalition For Marriage Ausralia’s Facebook page takes aggressive comments from LGBT+ campaigners and tries to cast the ‘yes’ campaign in a bad light. The […]
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Gay and trans people are reportedly being rounded up by Police in Azerbaijan and then humiliated and tortured. Pictures posted on social media showed men and women being physically assaulted and manhandled by police officers, reflecting behaviours seen in Chechnya earlier this year. Despite homosexuality being legal in Azerbaijan, it seems […]
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Polls find that 72% of those who have already voted have voted ‘yes’ Out of those Australians who have already voted on marriage equality, 72% have voted ‘yes’ compared with 26% who have voted no, according to the latest Guardian Essential Poll. If the official results reflect this initial survey, there […]
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Is Brnabic shying away from her responsibilities as an openly gay leader? When we think of LGBT rights, do any of us think of Serbia? Perhaps we should, because it’s going through something extraordinary at the moment and hardly anyone in the West seems to have noticed. While the UK is […]
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