With President Obama planning to make a three-country stop in Africa this week, LGBT activists, diplomats and party officials are all expressing concern about just how far he can and will go in denouncing the treatment of millions of people living there, reports ABC.com. The President plans on visiting South Africa, Senegal and Tanzania. The…
KYIV, Ukraine, — Ukraine’s political establishment has reacted with dismay to comments made Friday by the leader of the ultra-nationalist Svoboda Party, Oleh Tyahnybok, who targeted the sexuality of German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. Westerwelle was in Kiev for a round of meetings with President Viktor Yanukovych and Opposition parties. He also met with Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk and…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a fitting tribute to the success of the PEPFAR (the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) program, Secretary of State John Kerry announced this week that the one-millionth baby will be born HIV-free this month due to PEPFAR-supported prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs. At an event marking PEPFAR’s tenth…
A new video Year 7 Self, from Minus 18, Australia’s largest support network for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teens provides a new perspective on the fight against homophobia. The video features seven adults addressing their younger selves, expressing how saying things like “that’s so gay” and bullying kids who may be different is…
Despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, Russia’s LGBT film festival Side by Side (Bok o Bok) was found guilty of and fined $10,000 for failing to register as a ‘foreign agent.’ The fledgling organization, which was established in 2007, met the new guidelines according to prosecutor V.V Stepanchenko despite the fact that the law, established…
As the United States and other countries grapple with the issue of same-sex marriage, a new Pew Research Center survey finds huge variance by region on the broader question of whether homosexuality should be accepted or rejected by society. The survey of publics in 39 countries finds broad acceptance of homosexuality in North America, the…
It has been reported that a 39-year-old airport senior airport administrator was savagely stabbed and trampled to death before his body was stuffed in a box, placed in his car and set on fire. While the victim’s name is being withheld, three suspects – whose names are also being withheld at this time – have…
LONDON (CNN) — As concerns about rising Islamophobia in Britain grew amid anti-Muslim protests and attacks targeting mosques, authorities made a 10th arrest in last week’s knifing death of a British soldier. Armed police arrested a 50-year-old man on a street in the town of Welling in southeastern England. The man’s connection to the case…
(CNN) — Protesters filled Paris’ Esplanade des Invalides on Sunday, rallying against a new law that will allow same-sex marriage in France starting Wednesday. Paris police estimate 150,000 demonstrators marched along three different routes before converging in the sprawling plaza along the Seine River. The arguments against same-sex marriage in France sound similar to those…
Xiang Yuhan, 19, has been detained for at least twelve days in the southern Chinese city of Changsha by authorities after he organized a rally on the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, reports Voice of America. The young activist was detained shortly after police showed up at his hotel room. In China, a person…
