Day: November 27, 2014

Finland : Majority of party leaders would support gay marriage
A narrow majority of Finland’s political party leaders say they’d support an amendment to marriage laws to allow same-sex couples solemnise their unions. During an Yle election programme Wednesday evening five political chiefs said they would support gender neutral marriage; three pledged that they would oppose the measure.

Turkish Halil Dincdag came out as gay in 2009 – then he wasn’t longer accepted as football referee
Halil Dincdag was labeled as mentally ill and stricken from the Turkish football referee list when he came out as gay. Now he fights for restitution.

Grade 6 students’ project on gay rights a no-go for Ottawa Catholic school principal
When two Grade 6 students at St. George Catholic School in Ottawa in Canada, were assigned a class project on social justice, they chose gay rights as their topic.