Category: Opinion
Pope Francis and the Challenge of Compassion: A View from Peter Tatchell
Pope Francis’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights and Peter Tatchell’s activism against homophobia within the Catholic Church remain subjects of debate.
Uganda’s Non-Discrimination Assurances Won’t Protect Queer People from Prosecution
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), enacted on 30 May by President Yoweri Museveni, enshrines discrimination in Ugandan law. The AHA includes the death sentence for some consensual same-sex acts, prohibits organisation’s from «normalising» sexual diversity through inclusive programming, and requires everyone in Uganda, including health workers, to report people who might be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) to the police.
LGBT people makes gains worldwide
72 countries still criminalise same-sex relations and there is an anti-LGBT backlash in about 20 countries. But liberation cannot be halted forever. Queer freedom is an unstoppable global trend. It knows no borders.
John Wolfenden: Not so liberal after all
60th anniversary of Wolfenden recommending partial decriminalisation.