SOUTH AFRICA – Nelson Mandela was lauded as a “giant of history” and “one of the greatest leaders of our time” as tens of thousands cheered and almost 100 world leaders paid tribute to the anti-apartheid icon at a memorial service today. President Barack Obama, addressing the 95,000 capacity crowd in the First National Bank…
Europe’s first retirement home for LGBT people – the Rainbow House – has opened in Stockholm, with a ceremony attended by bishop Eva Brunne and Commissioner for the Elderly Joakim Larsson of the conservative Moderate party, reports Radio Sweden. The Rainbow House takes up the top three floors of an eight-storey apartment building in central Stockholm,…
http://youtu.be/7p6LvuwI7GQ LOS ANGELES — The It Gets Better Project (IGB) was founded in October 2010 by Dan Savage and Terry Miller with a YouTube video that ignited a global movement. The video’s message was simple: life does get better for LGBT youth. Three years later, IGB has launched a new video campaign in response to Russia’s discriminatory…
Nelson Mandela, who died yesterday was South Africa’s first post-Apartheid president, and an outspoken advocate for LGBT equality. He appointed an openly-gay judge to South Africa’s High Court of Appeal and during his presidency, South Africa became the first nation in the world to constitutionally prohibit sexual orientation-based discrimination. Mandela will be remembered for his…
International LGBT Business Expo, Latin America’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) travel business conference and consumer expo will return to its birth town, Puerto Vallarta, from June 12-14, 2014 with the host hotel being Casa Magna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA. More than 400 international, Mexican and local business who are interested in targeting the LGBT market…
Last month, Stockholm Pride won Gold and People’s Choice in the Lovie Awards for the much acclaimed campaign #GOWEST. Since the campaign was a protest against the LGBT-ban in Russia, Stockholm Pride had other plans for the heart shaped gold statuette. It was sent to president Vladimir Putin along with the inscription: To a man with a…
Heterosexual-male chauvinism thrives in oil-rich places like nowhere else. Whether the evidence is brought to light by the Supreme Court of the United State’s decision last week to allow Texas to eliminate safe places where a woman can have an abortion; or Afghanistan’s recent move toward returning to its penal code death by stoning for…
The European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation (EGLSF) has appointed Stockholm the host of EuroGames 2015. EuroGames is one of the biggest LGBTQ events in the world, and comprises a cultural, political, and sports program. EuroGames is open to everyone who wants to participate, regardless of age, gender, sexuality or religion. EuroGames was founded in…
OUT IN THE LINE-UP: A Film about Homosexuality in Surfing from Gay Surfers on Vimeo. Being gay in the line-up has always been something you don’t mention. Ridicule, threats, bashing and ostracism were often what was at stake. For the first time, members of the surfing community, both professional and amateur, have spoken on camera…
In what may be the first case of its kind, Russia’s media oversight agency has plans to file a lawsuit against a youth-oriented newspaper after it published a story featuring a gay man. “In September, a youth-oriented newspaper in Khabarovsk interviewed a teacher who had been fired over his sexual orientation. Quotes in the article…
