Tag: homophobic
Anti-gay Muslim extremist targets UK students
London-based scholar and religious leader is giving Muslim students a half-price discount to his ‘retreat’ where he will give a homophobic lecture.
Plaid: Councils ‘in the dark’ over school homophobic bullying
Welsh councils are ‘in the dark’ over incidents of homophobic bullying at schools, because many don’t record them, a Plaid Cymru AM says.
Zenit St Petersburg fans want black and gay players excluded
A Zenit St Petersburg supporters’ group has called for non-white and gay players to be excluded from the team.
Football team sacked after homophobic threats
A Swedish football club has fired all the players on its top team following complaints that players hurled homophobic remarks at members of an opposing team.
Macedonia: MEPs worry about increasingly homophobic climate
A young activist was attacked on Sunday in Skopje, where a growing climate of intolerance towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people has developed. In the last two weeks, political leaders have repeatedly made declarations against increasing social rights for LGBT people.
The memory of Matthew Shepard revisited on the Montreal stage in ‘The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later’
In October 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was brutally attacked and left for dead, bound to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Shepard eventually succumbed to the injuries inflicted upon him in an act of homophobic violence.