Singapore High Court Justice Quentin Loh today released a judgment in the Constitutional challenge of statute 377A of the Singapore Penal Code, upholding the law which criminalizes sex between men and provides a jail term of up to two years. In a 54-page judgment, Justice Loh has “found that the statute has not infringed the…
In what may be the very first case of its kind, Argentina has officially recognized the gender of a six-year-girl who was born a boy. England’s The Telegraph reported Friday that Luana, aka Lulu, was born as Manuel but, according to her parents, behaved as and identified as a girl. “By accepting that my son was not…
BELGIUM — A transsexual in Belgium chose to die by euthanasia after a sex change operation to complete his transformation into a man left him a ‘monster’. MailOnline reports that Nathan Verhelst, 44, died yesterday afternoon after being allowed to have his life ended on the grounds of ‘unbearable psychological suffering’. Born a girl named…
Following international outrage at Guido Barilla’s comments that the company would never make an ad with gay people and if they didn’t like it they can find another brand of pasta, Barilla has issued a video apology. In the video Barilla says: “Yesterday, I apologized for offending many people around the world. Today I am repeating…
Controversy continues to mount as comments by Barilla pasta maker Guido Barilla went viral on Wednesday after an interview with Italian radio station, La Zanzara (The Mosquito). During a live broadcast, an heir to the pasta making giant was asked if he would ever feature a gay family in one of his commercials. He said:…
Back in the middle of September, the media published what appeared to be one of the biggest developments in the race for a cure for HIV/AIDS in a very long time: 16 monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus (similar to HIV) were tested with a new vaccine and nine were protected. More shocking, those nine animals…
Today, following their meeting members of the LGBT Core Group at the United Nations issued the following declaration on ending violence and discrimination against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity: 1. We, ministers of Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, El Salvador, France, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and United States, and the High…
WASHINGTON – Today the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the governing body of the Olympic Games, announced it was “fully satisfied” that Russia’s heinous anti-gay propaganda law does not violate the anti-discrimination guarantees of the Olympic charter. Recently the Russian government adopted a law that outlaws even the most modest gestures of support for the dignity…
MELBOURNE — Hard on the heels of Pope Francis’ much publicized recent interview where he stated that “… the church has the right to express its opinions but not to ‘interfere spiritually’ in the lives of gays and lesbians,” comes news from Australia that the Vatican has defrocked and excommunicated a priest in Melbourne over…
WASHINGTON – Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president Chad Griffin has written to the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the CEO of Knights of Columbus – an affiliate of the Roman Catholic Church – calling on them to follow Pope Francis’ message of welcome and mercy for gays and lesbians. In a…
