LGBT activists and allies worldwide released a video Thursday following Wednesday’s passage of a discriminatory Russian law that would impose fines and criminalization for reading, writing, speaking, or reporting on anything related to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. The video, released by AllOut.org, features a script written on plain paper over a famous…
Lawmakers in St. Petersburg adopted a bill Wednesday that would impose fines of up to $16,700 for the “promotion of homosexuality.” The bill, if signed in to law by the City Governor in the next 14 days, will criminalize reading, writing, speaking or reporting on anything related to the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender community….
The popular geo-social networking app, Grindr, has launched a new initiative that will use their location-based technology to raise awareness about global LGBT issues. The initiative, ‘Grindr for Equality,’ is a social movement that is intended to provide assistance and promote action amongst its some 3 million LGBT members worldwide. Grindr first began its philanthropy…
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – The anti-gay draft law, prohibiting the so-called propaganda of “sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism” as well as pedophilia to minors, has passed in its second reading in St. Petersburg, Russia. Five activists who protested in front of the city parliament building were arrested and are still being detained. St. Petersburg, the…
CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS QUESTION: What do Russia, Uganda and Nigeria have in common? Other than the fact that all three are oil-producing countries (albeit Uganda as a fledgling oil producer), they are all involved in creating legislation banning homosexuality in one way or another. While Sharia law courts in northern Nigeria have already sentenced people…
