Tag: LGBT
Coming Out Campaign starts a crowdfunding campaign to fight LGBTTIQphobia
Coming Out Campaign, a recently created workgroup against any kind of LGBTTIQphobia has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise 6,500 €. The aim is to publish a book, build a website and start necessary work at educational centres, across all levels starting as early as Primary School, and in the community to eradicate bullying or cyberbullying and other violent manifestations.
Norwegian Church will become more visible during this year’s “Oslo Pride”
It was disagreement in the Oslo diocesan council, but a majority voted for the church to take more space during the pride festival in Oslo, Norway.
Only In America : Kansas Sends Legislative Attack on LGBT College Students to Governor
America’s largest LGBT civil rights organisation urges Governor Sam Brownback to veto legislation that would put LGBT college students at even greater risk of unfair and unjust discrimination.
National Child Welfare Advocates Issue Letter Opposing Nebraska ’s Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation today released a letter from leading national child welfare agencies opposing a bill in the Nebraska Unicam, LB 975, which would enshrine discrimination into Nebraska law by allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to reject prospective parents based on “the child placing agency’s sincerely held religious beliefs.”
Anti-LGBT Bill Advances in Kansas Allowing Student Groups to Discriminate, Exclude LGBT Members
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation yesterday sharply condemned SB 175, a bill that passed in the Kansas House yesterday by a vote of 80-39 that would put LGBT college students at risk of discrimination.
New FRA report highlights crucial role public authorities for LGBT equality
In a new report launched in the European Parliament today, the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) highlights that prevailing negative attitudes towards LGBT people endanger their fundamental rights and hamper efforts to counter discrimination and hate crime.