Tag: LGBT
Andrea Leadsom’s Ugandan Project Has Ties To An Anti-Gay Christian Group
The Tory leadership contender set up a school exchange programme with a centre co-run by a group whose founder condemned homosexuality as “counterfeit love” and “a sin”.
AME calls for political parties to work together to deliver marriage equality
Australian Marriage Equality (AME) today said that 70% of Australians back marriage equality and it’s important that all political parties work together to deliver equality for every Australian.
Callen-Lorde Board Elects Laura A. Jacobs Chair; First Trans and GenderQueer-Identified Person to Hold the Post
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center’s Board of Directors has elected Laura A. Jacobs Chair of the Board, the organizations first trans and genderqueer-identified Board Chair in the organisation’s history. Jacobs is a psychotherapist in New York City, New Jersey and Westchester, who works with transgender and gender-nonconforming, LGBTQ, and sexual/gender minority populations. Jacobs has been a client of Callen-Lorde since 2001, and has served on the Board since 2011.
European court strikes against Hungary’s arbitrary detention of LGBT asylum seekers
Today, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Hungary’s two-month-long detention of an Iranian gay man applying for asylum is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Gay Pride march sparks French far-right row
A Gay Pride march in Paris Saturday has caused a row in France’s far-right National Front (FN), with some student supporters backing an event decried by a party vice-chairman.
UN Human Rights Council votes for independent expert on LGBT discrimination and violence
In a 23 against 18 vote (6 abstentions)*, the United Nations Human Rights council voted in favour of a resolution condemning violence discrimination against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity.