Month: February 2016
Eurovision: You Decide : Joe and Jake will representing UK
In tonight’s Eurovision: You Decide on BBC 4, Joe and Jake won UK viewers trust to representing UK in Eurovision in Stockholm, Sweden in May.
Eurovision: You decide : Mel Giedroyc flirts wildly with Måns Zelmerlöw
BBC hostess of Eurovision: You decide, Mel Giedroyc flirts wildly with Måns Zelmerlöw after he performed his Eurovision winning song Hero.
Indonesia’s Defence Minister threatens ‘warfare’ against ‘threatening’ gay community
Indonesia’s gay community has come under attack, with the country’s Defence Minister labelling the community a “threat” and likening fighting it to “a kind of modern warfare”.
Civil union bill passes Italian Senate – but children in rainbow families get left behind
Tonight, the Italian Senate (one of two parliamentary chambers) voted in favour of a Same-Sex Civil Union and Cohabitation Bill which would establish an institution of civil unions for same-sex partners and cohabitation for all couples. This is the first time that Italian parliamentarians have supported the legal recognition of same-sex couples.
Suite 16 – Anna Lee
On Saturday Suite 16 are competing in Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix to be the one representing Norway in Eurovision in Stockholm in May.
TLDEF Urges South Dakota Governor to Veto Bill Targeting Transgender Students for Discrimination
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) urges South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard to veto a bill that would bar transgender students from using bathrooms and locker rooms that match who they are as boys and girls. South Dakota lawmakers passed House Bill 1008 last week. The bill restricts facility access to students of the “same biological sex,” and defines that to mean “the physical condition of being male or female as determined by a person’s chromosomes and identified at birth by a person’s anatomy.”