A “MILESTONE” AS BELGRADE PRIDE FINALLY GOES AHEAD
After being cancelled three years in a row, this weekend finally saw Belgrade’s LGBTI community being allowed to hold a Pride parade. In previous years, the Serbian authorities had banned the event, claiming that threats from religious and right wing groups made the march a danger to public safety. In 2010, a Pride event took […]
CALIFORNIA BANS USE OF GAY AND TRANS PANIC DEFENCE IN COURT
California has become the first US state to prohibit the use of “gay and transgender panic defences” in court cases through legislation. On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law, helping to ensure fairer outcomes in cases in which LGBT people have been attacked or murdered. The so-called “gay or trans panic defence” […]
EGYPT: 6 SENTENCED TO 2 YEARS IN JAIL FOR HOMOSEXUALITY
A gay dating app is warning its Egyptian users as a court sentences six men to two years in prison with labour on charges of sexual immorality. According to Ahram Online, the men were found guilty of “committing debauchery” after they were accused of promoting an apartment on Facebook as a location for gay sex. When […]
SOWETO PRIDE 2014 GALLERY
Hundreds turned out to march for LGBT equality in Soweto on Saturday in the face of ongoing hate crime attacks against the community. They also celebrated the historic tenth anniversary of the annual Soweto Pride March. According to Thuli Ncube from FEW, the march’s organisers, this was the biggest in the event’s history. “It was […]
SOUTH AFRICA VOTES ‘YES’ FOR GLOBAL LGBT EQUALITY
The South African government has stuck to its constitutional commitments and voted in favour of another ground-breaking resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). On Friday afternoon, the country was the only African nation in Geneva to say “yes” to resolution A/HRC/27/L.27/Rev.1, condemning violence and discrimination on the […]