Day: August 4, 2016
HRC Expresses Disappointment in Supreme Court Order Delaying Justice for Transgender Students
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organisation, expressed disappointment in a decision today by the U.S. Supreme Court to halt a lower court’s order forbidding a Virginia school district from enforcing its discriminatory ban on transgender students using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity.
Gay Syrian man beheaded and mutilated in Turkey
The headless, mutilated body of a gay Syrian man has been identified by gay housemates in Istanbul who say he had been gang-raped previously.
Iran: Hanging Of Gay Teenager Shows Authorities’ Brazen Disregard For International Law
Amnesty International has revealed that a teenager was executed in Iran after being convicted of the rape of another boy, the first confirmed execution of a juvenile offender in the country this year.