Asia’s and India’s biggest LGBT film festival has turned to social media and crowd funding to raise finances, reports GayAsiaNews.com. Organizers of Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival said this was done to give audiences a feeling of ownership and deepen their engagement with the festival. This will be its fifth edition and it is…
New Delhi — India’s Hindu nationalist party, that has opposed any move to nullify the Supreme Court’s re-criminalizing of consensual same-sex relations has won the general elections dealing a huge setback to efforts to scrap a colonial-era law that made it punishable by up to life imprisonment, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP, Indian…
It was supposed to be a bankable reality TV show on the Home and Garden Television Network (HGTV): Twin brothers David and Jason Benham would, as the press release announced back in April “find a fixer-upper and transform it into their forever home – with a healthy dose of sibling rivalry between the brothers along…
CHINA: Beijing police May 7 detained as many as nine civil society activists meeting for a seminar to discuss obstacles facing gay groups wishing to register as nongovernmental organizations in China, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The group had advertised itself as an event examining “civil society and the state,”stated sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com. The report suspects that the arrests and…
The Daily Caller provided a hate group spokesman a platform to smear marriage equality and same-sex families, part of the conservative Web site’s pattern of promoting the commentary of some of the most extreme anti-LGBT figures in the country, reports Media Matters for America. In a May 5 column, Senior Fellow for Policy Studies Peter Sprigg of…
WASHINGTON – In a disappointing move, a Florida state court judge overturned an earlier ruling that the University of Central Florida (UCF) must turn over records related to the publication of a debunked 2012 study conducted by discredited anti-gay researcher Mark Regnerus that demonizes gay and lesbian parents. The ruling comes after UCF appealed a…
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to decide if a New Mexico wedding photographer was within her rights when she refused to take photographs at a same-sex commitment ceremony. Without giving any reasons , the court said it would not review a decision by the New Mexico Supreme Court that the denial of service violated…
WASHNGTON, D.C.—The Open for Business Coalition, comprised of some of the nation’s leading business associations, has formed to actively oppose the so-called “Religious Freedom Bills” that are really anti-gay bills and are currently before several state legislatures. The coalition formalized its efforts as Miss. Gov. Phil Byrant signed his state’s version of the bill. Many…
After differing versions of Mississippi’s so-called “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” passed the House and Senate, yesterday a conference committee reported out a final bill that fails to prohibit discrimination against customers based on business owners’ personal religious beliefs. Tonight the final bill passed both houses of the Mississippi legislature and now heads to the desk of Gov….
Media Matters for America has revealed new reporting highlighting the links between Newsweek‘s new owners, IBT Media, and an evangelical college that threatens to punish students if they’re caught engaging in “homosexual activity.” After a one-year print hiatus, Newsweek is back on newsstands and under the new ownership of IBT Media. In-depth reports in The Guardian and Mother Jones…
