Tag: LGBT
Lord Alli, CBBC and Antony Cotton lead 2013 Stonewall Award winners
Coronation Street’s Antony Cotton was among the big winners at last night’s Stonewall Awards, held at the V&A and supported by Gender Gap.
Greek civil unions law only for heterosexual couples violates European human rights law
In a judgment in the joint cases of Vallianatos and Mylonas v. Greece and C.S. and others v. Greece delivered today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Greece had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by excluding same-sex couples from a “civil union”, restricted in Greece to heterosexual couples.
EU Court of Justice rules sexual orientation valid ground for fear of persecution in asylum procedures
Today the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that people fleeing their country with a well-founded fear of being persecuted because of their sexual orientation may qualify for asylum in the European Union.
Bullying: My Experience
Bullying is a bit of a sore subject for me. At the age of 29 I sometimes still find myself haunted by past experiences.
U.N. urges Olympic social inclusion amid Russian gay rights storm
The U.N. General Assembly called on Wednesday for an international truce during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia and urged Moscow “to promote social inclusion without discrimination” amid outrage over the country’s ban on gay “propaganda” among minors.
In Virginia, Equality Defeats Extremism with McAuliffe Victory over Cuccinelli
With last nights news that pro-equality Democrat Terry McAuliffe soundly defeated vehemently anti-LGBT Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia governor’s race,