Tag: LGBTQ
IDAHOBIT : «Stand up against hate» towards LGBTI people, UN human rights chief urges
Humiliation and intolerance remain «a stark reality» for many gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people around the world, the UN human rights chief has said, in her message for the upcoming International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
Queen’s Speech: Conversion therapy ban delay condemned
LGBT+ and human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, welcomed the announcement in the Queens’s Speech that the government will legislate a ban on LGBT+ conversion therapy but condemned the «further delay, lack of clarity and absence of a timetable for the ban».
Homophobic Uganda Should Reject Sexual Offences Bill
Draft Law Criminalises Consensual Sex, Lets Down Assault Survivors
Homophobic Parliament of Uganda Passes «Sexual Offences Bill» Enhancing Criminalisation of Same-Sex Relations
On Monday, May 3, 2021, the Parliament of Uganda passed the Sexual Offences Bill 2019.
Major Catholic study, endorsed by Mary McAleese, challenges Church’s teaching on same-sex relationships
A major new study endorsed by 60 top international scholars, including former president of Ireland, Professor Mary McAleese, has called for an «urgent» change in Catholic teaching on gay relationships.
Gay Latvian man dies after horrific hate crime attack, campaigners say
A gay Latvian man died on Wednesday after suffering severe burns in what LGBTQ associations denounced as a hate crime.