Tag: USA
HRC Calls on Organizations to Avoid Hotels Owned by Anti-LGBT Sultan of Brunei
Following Brunei’s decision this week to advance a series of penal code reforms that will include stoning as a possible punishment for relations between its LGBT citizens, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) sent letters today to the leadership of several organizations that currently plan to host events at American hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei.
Boy Scouts revoke agreement with Seattle church over gay troop leader
BSA removes Geoff McGrath from leadership position and revokes agreement with church that supported him
USA : UMass Amherst guard Derrick Gordon comes out as first openly gay NCAA Division I basketball
GLAAD, the America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, and the You Can Play Project, one of North America’s leading organizations dedicated to ensuring equality in sports, today hailed Derrick Gordon’s coming out as the first openly gay National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I basketball player.
Police boss denied US visa over anti-homosexuality law
The enactment of the anti-homosexuality law, which is widely opposed by Western countries, has claimed its first scalp in Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander Andrew Felix Kaweesi.
Dead man’s body rejected from organ donation because he was gay
A man’s body was rejected from organ donation because he was gay, his partner has claimed.
Mother ‘fatally beat her four-year-old son because she thought he was gay’
Jessica Dutro’s son Zachary collapsed at a homeless shelter where he, his mother and his mother’s partner were staying in Portland and died in August 2012.