Day: March 17, 2015

Dolce & Gabbana Creative Director Resigns Over Antifamily Comments
The creative director of Dolce & Gabbana’s online magazine Swide has stepped down from his role amid the controversy surrounding the comments the two designers made to an Italian magazine late last week, disparaging nontraditional families and children born through alternative reproductive technologies.

Parliament human rights report addresses LGBTI criminalisation, trans rights and same-sex unions
Last week, the European Parliament voted its annual report on human rights in the world. The report takes account of the situation of human rights, including of LGBTI people, and makes recommendations accordingly. The report contains strong language on the rights of LGBTI people.

Måns Zelmerlöw – Heroes
The Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, Melodifestivalen 2015, came to an end and Måns Zelmerlöw won with the song Heroes.

Dolce & Gabbana Coming Out Against Gay Parenthood and NOM loves them NOW!
A debate regarding same-sex couples and children was ignited over the weekend from the most unusual place: comments by openly-gay couple Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who in an interview spoke of the “classical” family saying “no [to] chemical children and [a] rented uterus.”