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LGBT+ rights

I got called a ‘rat of the first order’ for a ‘name and shame’ column
4 years ago

I got called a ‘rat of the first order’ for a ‘name and shame’ column

I WRITE a weekly column for the Spanish-based Euro Weekly News, often tacking subjects like homophobia, religious privilege, secularism, atheism and the likes. I rarely provoke outrage, but in March …
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India’s decriminalisation of homosexuality could have a much wider impact

Human rights campaigner PETER TATCHELL takes courage from this landmark decision

IN SEPTEMBER, 2018, India’s Supreme Court amended Section 377 of its penal code to decriminalise homosexuality.

Peter Tatchell …
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Comedian challeges prejudice through best-selling kids’ books

WHEN David Walliams – best known for his appearances in the TV show Little Britain and most recently as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent – published his first children’s …
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Trump’s war on LGBT rights takes a sinister new turn

AMERICA’s Department of Health and Human Services announced the creation in January 2018 of a new and “dangerous” division of the Office of Civil Rights that will allow healthcare providers …
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Australian gay marriage a blow to religious bigots
6 years ago

Australian gay marriage a blow to religious bigots

ABOVE is one of a number of posters that began appearing in Australia last year as the country prepared to hold a plebiscite asking citizens whether or not to …
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Pushing for equality in  Commonwealth countries
6 years ago

Pushing for equality in Commonwealth countries

The Commonwealth Secretariat has been presented with proposals to put LGBT+ equality on the agenda of the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which will take place in the …
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Judge accused of a ‘shameful diatribe’ against US hate preacher Scott Lively

SCOTT Lively – a preacher who probably did more to stoke up hatred against gays in Uganda than any other foreign evangelist – is demanding that remarks made about him …
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Serbia’s gay Prime Minister joins Pride parade in Belgrade

WHILE Benidorm was celebrating its September Pride week, Ana Brnabic, the first openly gay Prime Minister in the Balkan region and the first Serbian woman in the top job, joined …
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In America, the backlash has begun with a vengeance

CHRIS COATES reports on reaction to the Trump administration’s ‘religious liberties’ directive

Conservative evangelicals, reported The Daily Beast earlier this month, “handed Trump the presidency when they collectively, and organisationally, …
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No stopping the march towards equality

Seventy-two 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 …
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