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Lithuania set to legalise gay civil partnerships next year, says LGBT+ lawmaker
By Reuters | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
UPDATED ON DEC 21, 2020 06:21 PM IST
Lithuania looks set to legalise same-sex civil partnerships next year, but gay marriage could be up to a decade away, according to the country’s only openly LGBT+ lawmaker.
Switzerland lawmakers vote for same-sex marriage and legal gender change with declaration
By Reuters | Posted by Nishtha Grover | London
UPDATED ON DEC 19, 2020 09:28 AM IST
On Friday, the lawmakers of Switzerland voted for transgender people to be able to easily legalise their gender change with just a declaration. Not just that, they also voted to make same-sex marriage legal in the country.
Global faith leaders call for ban on LGBT+ conversion therapy and support same-sex relationships
By Reuters | Posted by Nishtha Grover | London
UPDATED ON DEC 16, 2020 11:59 AM IST
Various religious leaders from all across the world have come together and asked countries to show support for the LGBT+ community. They want countries to overturn bans on same-sex relationships.
Two local firms win gold in India’s first LGBT+ work equality index
By Reuters | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta | New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 11, 2020 11:23 AM IST
Two Indian firms, the Godrej Group and Hindustan Unilever, were named top employers for LGBT+ people on Thursday, in the country’s first workplace equality index, launched two years after it decriminalised gay sex.
Nearly half of LGBT+ pupils feel unsafe at school in England, study finds
By Reuters | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta | Reuters
UPDATED ON NOV 18, 2020 08:56 AM IST
Almost half of LGBT+ pupils in England do not feel safe at school, with more than a third saying homophobic and transphobic bullying is common.
LGBT activists welcome rainbow light show in Poland, say more action needed
By Reuters | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta | Warsaw
UPDATED ON NOV 17, 2020 05:44 PM IST
Several cities in Poland illuminated buildings with rainbow colours on Monday in a gesture of solidarity with the LGBT+ community, but activists called for more support in the face of rising hostility.
LGBT+ rights: New York City’s Ritchie Torres-Mondaire Jones become first gay Black men elected to US Congress
By Reuters | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz | New York
UPDATED ON NOV 06, 2020 10:52 AM IST
‘LGBTQ people of colour will have a seat at one of the most powerful tables, the United States Congress’: Ritchie Torres on being elected as US Congress’ first gay Black man, along with New York’s Mondaire Jones
US Justice Barrett’s first major hearing to focus on gay rights
By Agence France-Presse | Posted by Shivani Kumar | Washington
UPDATED ON NOV 03, 2020 11:00 PM IST
It is first major hearing to come before Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic appointed by President Donald Trump and sworn in last week over the objection of Democrats.
Woman’s suicide prompts Indian state to mull LGBT+ conversion therapy ban
By Reuters | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta | Kochi, India
UPDATED ON OCT 28, 2020 07:58 PM IST
Kerala could become the first state in India to make it illegal for health care professionals or religious leaders to try to alter people’s sexual orientation or gender identity through such treatments, which have no scientific backing.
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro asks congress to consider same-sex marriage, quotes Pope Francis’ support
By Reuters | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz | Caracas
UPDATED ON OCT 24, 2020 10:33 AM IST
Citing Pope Francis’ recent supporting comments on the rights of gay people, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro asks National Assembly to discuss same-sex marriage in next term
Catholic priests’ body insists Pope’s views on same sex union misinterpreted
By Ramesh Babu | Posted by Abhinav Sahay | Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram
UPDATED ON OCT 23, 2020 04:26 PM IST
In a recently released documentary, Pope Francis expressed support for same-sex civil unions in a significant break from his predecessors.
Pope Francis becomes 1st pope to endorse same-sex civil unions
By Associated Press | Posted by Shivani Kumar
UPDATED ON OCT 22, 2020 08:41 AM IST
The papal thumbs-up came midway through the feature-length documentary “Francesco,” which premiered at the Rome Film Festival.
Irish town Fermoy cuts ties with Polish twin Nowa Deba after latter discriminates against the LGBT community
By Reuters | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz | London
UPDATED ON OCT 21, 2020 12:40 PM IST
‘We just feel that we couldn’t be associated with a town that does not change their stance on their LGBT+ community’: Irish town of Fermoy in a growing culture war with Polish twin Nowa Deba and Poland’s increasing homophobic stance
Record number of LGBT+ candidates set to run in U.S. election
By Reuters | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta | New York
UPDATED ON OCT 10, 2020 10:42 PM IST
A record number of LGBT+ people will run for office in next month’s U.S. election, reflecting stronger support for LGBT+ rights among Americans that is eroding concerns about the electability of gay, bisexual and transgender candidates.
Not enough LGBT+ artists in pop, says star known as Girl in Red
By Reuters | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta | Reuters
UPDATED ON OCT 09, 2020 10:14 AM IST
Young LGBT+ people are deprived of role models because there are not enough gay artists in pop, said Marie Ulven, known as popstar Girl in Red
Ambassadors appeal for acceptance of LGBT people in Poland
By Press Trust of India | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta | Warsaw
UPDATED ON SEP 28, 2020 08:12 PM IST
Ambassadors to Poland from some 50 countries and international organisations have expressed their support for the LGBT community in the country, citing a need to work for “non-discrimination, tolerance and mutual acceptance.”
Barbados pledges same-sex marriage vote so as not to be ‘blacklisted’ for human rights issues
By Reuters by Anastasia Moloney | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz | Bogota
UPDATED ON SEP 17, 2020 10:02 AM IST
Stirring a ‘controversy’ in the Caribbean country where LGBT people suffer discrimination, verbal abuse and harassment, Barbados Governor General Sandra Mason has called for a public referendum on allowing same-sex marriage
Our values don’t recognise same-sex marriage: Centre tells Delhi HC
By Richa Banka | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 14, 2020 04:08 PM IST
Opposing a plea that sought legalisation of the same-sex marriages, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta expressed his personal opinion that such unions are not only contrary to the statutory provisions but the society and values also do not recognise them
‘They can love’: UK film directors Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan focus on the untold stories of LGBT+ disabled teens
By Reuters | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta | London
UPDATED ON SEP 11, 2020 06:56 PM IST
The award-winning writing and directing team, Neil Ely, 38, and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, 32, said they were keen to make a film about the rarely discussed topic of disability in LGBT+ youth, as both minorities are under-represented in British film and television.
Same-sex couple lived as heterosexuals for 8 years, reveals autopsy
By Shruti Tomar | Hindustan Times, Bhopal
UPDATED ON SEP 09, 2020 04:01 PM IST
The duo, who got married in 2012, presented themselves to their family and neighbours as a heterosexual couple and adopted a child two years after their wedding
Two years after Section 377: Judgement that said it with poetry and words from literature
By Press Trust of India | Posted by Arpan Rai | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON SEP 06, 2020 11:15 AM IST
The 495-page path-breaking verdict, delivered by a five-judge constitutional bench headed by then chief justice Dipak Misra on September 6, 2018, took the help of philosophers and poets to read down parts of an 158-year-old colonial law under Section 377 of the IPC which criminalised consensual gay sex.
Covid-19: Hyderabad trans community sells pickles and other eatables to earn livelihood
By Asian News International | Posted by Saumya Sharma | Hyderabad, Telangana, India
UPDATED ON AUG 13, 2020 12:10 PM IST
The idea of making pickles and being self-reliant came after people in the transgender community shared their experiences of discrimination and ill-treatment.
LGBT protesters decry rising homophobia, arrests in Poland
By Press Trust of India | Posted by: Shankhyaneel Sarkar | Warsaw
PUBLISHED ON AUG 09, 2020 05:47 AM IST
Saturday’s protest comes a day after LGBT rights supporters scuffled with police who arrested the activist, Malgorzata Szutowicz, known best as “Margot.”
Hope Prez Trump works for LGBT in US: Ayushmann
By Deep Saxena | Hindustan Times, Lucknow, Lucknow
PUBLISHED ON FEB 22, 2020 08:55 PM IST
National award-winning actor Ayushmann Khurrana reacted for the first time to US president Donald Trump’s tweet, on his latest release ‘Shubh Mangal Zyaada Saavdhan’, at a Hindustan Shikhar Samagam session, in Lucknow.
Cambodia to teach LGBT+ issues in schools to tackle discrimination
By HT Correspondent | Reuters, Phnom Penh
UPDATED ON DEC 11, 2019 04:17 PM IST
From grade seven, around age 13, modules covering sexual orientation and gender identity will be part of sex education in schools.
LGBT+ art exhibition titled Spectrosynthesis takes centre stage at Thai gallery
By Reuters | Bangkok, Thomson Reuters Foundation
UPDATED ON NOV 24, 2019 04:37 PM IST
The exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), which runs until March 1, features the works of nearly 60 Asian artists, and is the second such exhibition after a show in Taipei two years ago.
A year after 377 verdict: Long battle for civil rights still ahead
By Dhamini Ratnam and Dhrubo Jyoti | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2019 07:09 AM IST
It’s been a year since the Supreme Court read down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code
The arrests that sparked a crusade against S.377
By Dhamini Ratnam | Lucknow
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2019 03:08 AM IST
By 1999, the second phase of the central government’s National Aids Control Programme (NACP) was launched with World Bank credit support of $191 million.
A ‘pride’ that roared on the streets of Kolkata yet again
By Dhrubo Jyoti | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUN 29, 2019 10:12 PM IST
On a muggy July afternoon in 1999, 15 people gathered at Park Circus Maidan in the heart of Kolkata dressed in bright yellow T-shirts that said Friendship Walk on one side and ‘Walk into People’s Heart’ on the reverse.
Hong Kong: LGBT ad approved by transport authorities after resentment
By Agence France-Presse | Hong Kong
UPDATED ON MAY 21, 2019 05:37 PM IST
The news emerged just after Taiwan’s parliament legalised same-sex marriage last week in a landmark first for Asia, placing the island at the vanguard of the region’s burgeoning gay rights movement.
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