A statement from Cardinal O’Brien
I last mentioned Cardinal Keith O’Brien here when I explained why he had been nominated for Stonewall’s Bigot of the Year award – a contest he later won outright: Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the UK’s most...
View ArticleChavez’s gay-baiting successor
Hugo Chavez’s anointed successor as president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, will stand for election next month against Henrique Capriles, who lost to the terminally-ill Chavez last October. Supposedly...
View ArticleThe ultimate taboo?
With the Supreme Court holding a second day of hearings on the question of same-sex marriage, it’s interesting to note the astonishingly fast change of public opinion in the US on the issue. Even Fox...
View ArticleErdogan’s Problem With Gays
No surprise to hear this from Turkey’s Islamist PM. Via Gay Star News: Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called homosexuality a ‘sexual preference’ saying it conflicted with the ‘culture of...
View ArticleUgandan Discussions In Singapore
My first – not to mentioned second and probably third – reaction to the decision earlier this month by the Singaporean judiciary to reject a challenge against Section 377a which criminalized sexual...
View ArticleTwo legal victories: Outlawing caste discrimination, gay marriage in France
In a welcome move, the House of Lords has ruled that caste should be deemed a protected characteristic in a new clause in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill. This follows an earlier defeat for...
View ArticleHomophobia in word and deed [UPDATED]
Often religious figures, when asserting that homosexuality is sinful, contrive to do so in a comparatively soft and reluctant way, perhaps reminding the listener or reader that we all probably fall...
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By refreshing contrast…
Sarah posted on the hateful words of Timothy Winter and the death-by-torture of three gay youths in South Africa at a “conversion” camp intended to turn them into “men.” It’s a sign of how far things...
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The American Wahhabists
This is a cross-post by Paul Canning This horrific image, which I make no apologies for posting, comes from the Ugandan Parliament. The Ugandan lesbian activist Kasha Jacqueline posted it on Twitter....
View ArticleOwn private Idaho: International day against homophobia
Today people around the world have been marking (or trying to mark) IDAHO, the international day against homophobia. An LGBT march in Kenya, where homosexuality is a criminal offence, was stopped...
View ArticleThe House of Lords backs same-sex marriage
The wrecking amendment has been voted down by 242 votes, despite some peers’ contorted arguments against equality. Here’s Lord Dear: Insisting the measure would overturn centuries of tradition by...
View ArticleVictory for same sex marriage – and some other LGBT news
Considering the strongly felt, and expressed, views of gay marriage’s opponents, news of the bill’s final passing into law seemed to be greeted comparatively quietly – here the indifference of the...
View ArticleJudging what Pope Francis says
This is a cross-post by John Sargeant from homo economicus While the pope judges legislation to give gay people rights as the work of the evil one, I will not be joining the chorus singing his praises....
View ArticleJust when you thought ‘Socialist Unity’ couldn’t get any worse
This is a cross-post from Howie’s Corner Perhaps I was being a bit naive when I thought that the political content of the totally misnamed Socialist Unity website could not get any worse when I saw the...
View ArticleThe UK academies which won’t permit ‘the promotion of homosexuality’
Gay Star News reports on Russia style regression in some schools’ policies on sex education: Three UK academies have stepped back to the 1980s by banning teachers from saying anything positive about...
View ArticleIs supporting same-sex marriage “anti-Israel”?
Here in Virginia, the Republican party decided this year to forgo a primary to select its candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. (Virginia and New Jersey are the only states...
View ArticleWhy I ambushed Russia’s news network with rainbow suspenders
In the Washington Post, journalist James Kirchick explains why he took the extraordinary step of using an opportunity to zap Russia’s state-sponsored propaganda outlet. Condemning Russian homophobia...
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Where’s Bayard Rustin’s statue?
This is a cross-post by Paul Canning It is especially pleasing to see as part of the remembrance of the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom the rehabilitation of Bayard...
View ArticleG20 Day of Action against Putin’s homophobic law
This is a Press Release from Peter Tatchell Join us Tuesday 3 September, two days before the G20 summit 5-8pm, Downing Street, London SW1 London protest is part of Global Speak Out on Russia, with 19...
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Three missing gay stories: Iran, Turkey, Belarus
This is a cross-post by Paul Canning It’s Russia, Russia, Russia when it comes to ‘foreign gay news’ these days. But it’s a much bigger and badder gay world out there. Although the video footage of...
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