Category: World – LGBTQ Rights
Malaysian anti-gay camp condemned
There’s been an outcry in Malaysia where a state has sent teenage boys to a camp to try to stop them being gay.
Malaysian schoolboys sent to gay ‘cure’ camp
Malaysian authorities have sent 66 Muslim schoolboys to a gay ‘cure’ camp after school teachers identified them as being effeminate.
Vatican addresses UN debate on sexual orientation
Vatican affirm the inherent dignity and worth of all human beings, and to condemn all violence that is targeted against people because of their sexual feelings and thoughts, or sexual behaviours.
HRC: U.S. Pastors Exporting Bigotry to Uganda with Murderous Results
In the wake of the murder of Ugandan LGBT civil rights leader, David Kato, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest civil rights organization dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, is calling on U.S. fundamentalist pastors Carl Ellis Jenkins, Lou Engle, and Scott Lively, to quickly abandon their hateful and dangerous anti-LGBT rhetoric and actions.
Condemning UN removing sexual orientation in resolution
InterPride strongly condemns the vote taken by the UN General Assembly to remove a reference to sexual orientation from a resolution on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Give Ugandan gays visas
American activists have called on countries to offer asylum to gays from Uganda after a tabloid there outed over 100 people, calling for them to be hanged. Rolling Stone newspaper (not connected to the US music magazine of the same name) has so far printed two separate lists of alleged homosexuals – provoking censure from across the globe.