18th May 2013 International News
Almost two-thirds of Europe's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public and most feel discriminated against, according to an EU report.
The... Read more
18th May 2013 International News
France has become the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage, with its President Francois Hollande signing it into law.
The move comes a day after the Constitutional Council threw out... Read more
15th May 2013 International News
Brazil’s National Council of Justice has ruled notary
publics cannot refuse to marry gay couples or convert a same-sex civil union
into a marriage.
The council based its decision on... Read more
14th May 2013 International News
The highest court in Hong Kong has granted a transgender
woman the right to marry her boyfriend, citing laws in New Zealand and other
Asia Pacific nations as a factor... Read more
14th May 2013 International News
Minnesota will become the 12th US state to
introduce marriage equality.
The final Senate vote was 37-30 and Governor Mark Dayton is
reported to be expected to sign the legislation... Read more
13th May 2013 International News
Russian authorities say a gay man was sexually assaulted
with beer bottles and had his skull smashed with a stone, as he was tortured to
death.
The naked and beaten... Read more
11th May 2013 International News
American network NBC has cancelled its show The New Normal after just one season.
The programme focuses on a gay couple having a baby with surrogate mother.
It's currently showing... Read more
9th May 2013 International News
Delaware has become the 11th US state to introduce
marriage equality, with its governor signing it into law within an hour of the successful
vote.
Governor Jack Markell said people... Read more
7th May 2013 International News
A troupe of street drummers promoting a gay festival have
received a stern telling off from Helen Mirren, dressed as Queen Elizabeth II.
She walked out of a London theatre... Read more
3rd May 2013 International News
The crime of
‘impersonating a woman’ has been wiped under Samoa’s new Crimes Act.
While it has
not been enforced by police for decades, the Crimes Ordinance 1961 criminalised
'the... Read more
