Canada has a new prime minister. Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party won yesterday’s highly anticipated election, beating incumbent Stephen Harper, a member of the Conservative Party and Tom Mulcair of the leftist New Democratic Party, reports The Advocate. Not only does Trudeau have a famous namehttps://lgbtweekly.jeffjungblut.com/wp-admin/post-new.php (he is the son of the late Pierre…
Today, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who last month refused to allow a vote for marriage equality in the Parliament, was ousted from his position and replaced by Malcolm Turnbull through a leadership ballot. Liberal Party members voted 54 to 44 to replace Abbott with former party leader and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who had…
Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, has become the first EU leader to wed a same-sex partner. According to The Huffington Post, Bettel and his husband, Gauthier Destenay, were among the first couples to marry under a recent marriage equality law that went into effect earlier this year. “I could have hidden it or repressed it…
TOKYO — From GayAsiaNews comes a story about Japan’s first lady, who has not only taken part in the annual Tokyo gay parade but gone on to write about equality and anti-gay discrimination on her Facebook page. Akie Abe wore a white suite and stood on a float with a drag queen, as some 3,000…
World War II British code-breaker Alan Turing, who was subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has been pardoned by the Queen. The royal pardon, under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, is effective today and comes nearly 60 years after Turing committed suicide. Turing’s code-breaking work is considered by many to have helped change the…
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…
http://youtu.be/v89vo3AHUkw In a televised Q&A session Monday in advance of upcoming Australian elections, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a clear and passionate defense of his support for marriage equality. Watch the video
