US Supreme court sends back anti-gay florist case
In the wake of its recent ruling in favour of a homophobic baker, the US Supreme Court has declined to look at a case concerning a florist who also refused to serve a same-sex couple. In 2013, Curt Freed and Robert Ingersoll were denied service by the flower shop, Arlene’s Flowers, while planning their wedding, […]
Omar Sharif Jr on coming out and Egypt’s LGBTQ crackdown
Since coming out as gay in 2012, actor Omar Sharif Jr, the grandson of legendary Egyptian film star Omar Sharif, has become an outspoken activist for his country’s beleaguered LGBTQ community. He is said to be one of the first public personalities to come out in the Arab world and he was vilified by the […]
Death threats after world’s first refugee camp Pride event
Members of the LGBT community in Kakuma, Kenya, who held the world’s first Pride parade in a refugee camp, have been threatened with death if they don’t leave. “Wraning. This is to inform all men and women (gays) living in Kakuma…” a note posted on one of the camp’s noticeboards reads. “Whatever you have been […]