Bryan Adams does a Springsteen – cancels concert over anti-gay law
Following in the footsteps of Bruce Springsteen, Canadian performer Bryan Adams has now cancelled a concert in Mississippi over that state’s new anti-LGBT law. In a statement, Adams said that the 14 April show will no longer take place because of Mississippi’s so called “Religious Liberty” Bill 1523. “I find it incomprehensible that LGBT citizens […]
Bruce Springsteen cancels North Carolina concert over anti-LGBT law
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has shown his support for the LGBT community by refusing to perform in the state of North Carolina. The star announced on Friday that he’d cancelled Sunday’s show in the city of Greensboro in protest against the state’s recently enacted anti-LGBT law. Springsteen described the legislation as “…an attempt by people […]
Peter Tatchell: The new ‘left-wing’ McCarthyism?
Sectarian smears and fabrications have no place in progressive politics writes veteran British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. The future of progressive politics is under threat, again. But this time from the left. Historically, socialists and greens have made gains by building broad alliances around a common goal, such as the campaigns against the poll […]
Man whose husband died on honeymoon has his ashes confiscated at airport
The British man whose husband died on honeymoon in Australia was further traumatised when airport staff confiscated his partner’s ashes. In January, we reported that Marco Bulmer-Rizzi, 38, was humiliated when Australia’s lack of recognition of his UK marriage to David Bulmer-Rizzi, 32, compounded the tragic loss. While on honeymoon in Adelaide, David fell down […]
Pope calls for end to anti-LGBT violence and discrimination
In what some have called a historic document, Pope Francis has urged the Catholic Church to be more tolerant towards gays and lesbians. On Friday, Francis published his long awaited guidelines on family life; a 260 page document titled, On Love in the Family. The guidelines are informed by two conferences held in 2014 and 2015, […]
France finally gives up on gay Vatican ambassador
The French government has finally given up on its efforts to convince the Vatican to accept its openly gay ambassador. In January 2015, highly respected senior diplomat Laurent Stefanini was selected by France to represent the country at the Holy See. Shamefully, the Vatican refused to accept his appointment, reportedly because Stefanini is gay. France’s […]
Watch: Ellen calls out Mississippi’s anti-gay “religious freedom” law
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has lashed out at Mississippi’s new so-called religious freedom law, which will allow discrimination against LGBT people. Addressing the audience on her show, DeGeneres, who grew up in the South, insisted that the issue was not about politics but about “human rights. And when I see something wrong, I have […]
Colombian Constitutional Court legalises marriage equality
A ruling by Colombia’s Constitutional Court has made same-sex marriage legal in the predominantly Catholic Latin American country. On Thursday, six judges voted in favour and three against marriage equality, in a judgement that found that “all human beings … have the fundamental right to be married with no discrimination”. The case centred on four couples […]
#FeesMustFall activists fall out over homophobia
There’s growing tension within the #FeesMustFall (FMF) movement amid claims that some of its members are homophobic and anti-feminist. News24 reports that at a fees protest at Wits University this week, a group of feminists and “queer persons” clashed with other demonstrators linked to the EFF and the Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania. The […]
Gay diving legend Greg Louganis final gets own breakfast cereal box
Decades after coming out as gay and HIV positive, Greg Louganis, America’s greatest diving champion, has finally been honoured on the box of Wheaties breakfast cereal. Since 1934, Wheaties, sold as “the breakfast of champions”, has depicted sports stars on its packaging. Louganis, who was in his sporting prime in the 1980s, was never featured. […]