Day: June 12, 2014

HRC to Secretary Kerry: In Meeting Today, Hold Uganda Accountable
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, today urged Secretary of State John Kerry to directly raise the United States’ vehement opposition to Uganda’s recent enactment of state-sponsored homophobia and transphobia in his meeting this afternoon with Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa.

Denmark becomes Europe’s leading country on legal gender recognition
Yesterday, the Danish Parliament voted a new regulation which will make it easier for transgender persons to see their preferred gender officially recognised.

Major new survey begins to explore what it’s like being LGBTI in Ireland
LGBTIreland, beginning today , is a major new research project exploring the mental health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in Ireland.