Italian mag’s gay rugby kiss cover furore
Italian sports fans have reacted with both anger and praise after a local magazine featured two gay rugby players proudly kissing on its cover. SportWeek cover stars Giacomo and Stefano are a couple who play together in Italy’s first gay-friendly amateur rugby team, Rome’s Libera Rugby. The photo of their on-field smooch is accompanied by […]
US military set to allow transgender service members
Almost four years after lifting the ban on gay service members, the US military looks set to do the same for transgender personnel. On Monday, US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter Carter announced a working group to study the “policy and readiness implications” of allowing transgender service members to serve openly. He acknowledged in a […]
Angela Merkel says gay unions cannot be called marriage
German leader Angela Merkel says she does not believe that a union between people of the same sex can be described as a marriage. Merkel, who’s been criticised by some for her hard-line stance towards Greece’s economic woes, made the comments in an interview with YouTube personality Florian Mundt. “I’m someone who is very supportive […]
Watch: Men holding hands abused, attacked in Moscow
Two brave Russian men have filmed the shocking reactions of passers-by when they dared to walk through Moscow holding hands. The men from Chebrussia TV decided to conduct the “social experiment” following the recent legalisation of same-sex marriage in America to see what response ordinary Russians would have to their very tame same-sex public affection. […]