REPORT: INDIA MAY BAN GAY ADOPTION
In the wake of India’s re-criminalisation of homosexuality last year, it’s been reported that the country may introduce legislation banning adoption by gay and lesbian couples. According to Live Mint, the country’s federal Cabinet made a decision to “stop same-sex couples from adopting children” on Wednesday. It said that a government official confirmed the decision, […]
OBAMA’S SURPRISE WELCOME TO GAY GAMES ATHLETES
President Obama surprised participants at the opening of the ninth Gay Games in Cleveland with an unexpected greeting. The American leader welcomed athletes, coaches, families and spectators to Ohio and the USA in a special video message screened during the opening ceremony at the Quicken Loans Arena on Saturday night. Around 20,000 participants, including 7,000 […]
POLICE PROTECT UGANDA GAY PRIDE MARCHERS
Around 200 LGBT Ugandans took part in the third annual Uganda Gay Pride on the weekend. The Beach Pride Uganda parade and celebration was held on the beaches of Lake Victoria in the town of Entebbe on Saturday. Participants, some understandably wearing masks to hide their identities, paraded through the botanical gardens, holding up rainbow […]
BREAKING! UGANDA APPEALS RULING STRIKING DOWN ANTI-GAY LAW
It’s official. The Ugandan government is going ahead with plans to reinstate the Anti-Homosexuality Act through the courts. The county’s Constitutional Court annulled the draconian law last week on a technicality; ruling that the December Parliamentary vote in which the law was passed did not have a quorum of MPs, as legally required. On Saturday, […]
CLERICS: EBOLA A CURSE FROM GOD BECAUSE OF GAYS
The absurdity of religious extremism knows no bounds. Christian leaders in Liberia have blamed homosexuality for the outbreak of the Ebola virus in the country. According to the Liberian Observer, more than 100 “bishops, pastors, general overseers, prophets, evangelists and other ministers of the gospel” met last week to deliberate on the crisis. Their aim […]
SURPRISE AS SCOTT LIVELY WELCOMES END OF UGANDA ANTI-GAY LAW
Scott Lively, the American pastor credited with inspiring Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, has had a surprising response to the annulment of the law. In an article for Barbwire.com, Liveley writes: “I am not unhappy that the Ugandan law as written has been nullified.” “I have always said it was too harsh and did not emphasize prevention […]
2ND PRETORIA PRIDE CONFIRMED FOR OCT
The second Pretoria Pride Festival and Parade has been confirmed for Saturday 4 October, and will take place at the Centurion Rugby Club. The 2014 theme is “In The Service Of Love”. The Pretoria Pride Board said that the theme is relevant to “not only the LGBTI community, but to every human being constantly suffering […]
ACTIVIST CONFRONTS ANTI-GAY NIGERIAN PRESIDENT
An activist has confronted anti-gay Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on the issue of LGBT rights during the US-Africa Summit in Washington DC. BuzzFeed reports that Micheal Ighodaro, a gay Nigerian activist who sought asylum in the US after being brutally attacked in 2012, attended a business diner in the president’s honour in the capital on […]
FEARS OF A “GAY GENOCIDE” IN UGANDA
There has been an unconfirmed claim that extremists are planning to attack and kill gay Ugandans in a “gay genocide”. The rumours reflect growing concerns that the LGBT community in Uganda may face a backlash after the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act was annulled last week on a technicality. On Wednesday, the Facebook group Uganda Gay on […]
STUDY REVEALS JOB BIAS AGAINST GAYS & LESBIANS
A European study has revealed that openly gay people are 40% less likely to be offered a job interview compared to those who do not disclose their sexuality. The research, by Dr Nick Drydakis, a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Anglia Ruskin University, is published in the latest edition of the International Journal of Manpower. Four […]