Tag: discrimination

'This is a place we live, it's our home' A gay couple in Wisconsin is being threatened with eviction for flying a rainbow flag outside their home. Kevin Kollman and Merle Malterer have lived at the the Country Oaks Apartments in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, for the past six years. Last Wednesday (27 March), the couple received a note explaining they breached their lease. The note gave them five days to take down their flag — a rainbow American flag. ‘It’s a symbol of...

A gay couple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, have been ordered to remove their Pride flag from the outside of their apartment home or be evicted. Kevin Kollman and Merle Malterer told their local NBC News affiliate they received a note from their landlord at the Country Oaks Apartments on Wednesday informing them flying their Pride flag outside their home was a breach of their lease. They were given five days to remove the flag. “It’s a symbol of America, it’s a symbol...

The Trump/Pence administration is continuing it's assault on the LGBTQ community as the Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a new, extremely narrow definition of 'sex' that would virtually erase the existence of 1.4 million transgender Americans. The move would exclude transgender people from federal non-discrimination protections. From The New York Times: The Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an effort to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans...

The statistics show that LGBTQ people are more susceptible to mental health issues than heterosexual people due to a number of factors, including oppression, discrimination and inequality. Today marks World Suicide Prevention Day and Gay Times has teamed up with Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander for a new campaign to encourage LGBTQ youth to discuss issues surrounding their mental health more openly. In a call to action, Olly Alexander holds The Flag We Shouldn’t Be Proud Of – a reworked...

In April, Aceh passed a law to no longer do this in public Authorities flogged a gay couple more than 80 times each in Indonesia’s conservative province Aceh on Friday (13 July). According to a report by ABS-CBN News, the men were part of a group of 15 who were flogged in front of a vocal crowd. Authorities punished them for having gay sex. Islamic law in the province outlaws such acts. Aceh is the only Indonesian province to enforce such Islamic...

A new study conducted by Vanderbilt University found that same-sex marriage led to "significant increases" in gay and bi men's access to care and health insurance coverage. The study, which was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, was a combination of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System between the years of 2000 and 2016. But how did they know which households in the data belonged to same-sex couples? Well as Vanderbilt’s...

Two Ecuadorian judges ruled in favor or marriage equality! The judges from the Family, Women, Children and Adolescents Court ruled in favor of two lesbian couples who had their marriage license applications rejected by the Civil Registry. Both Judges Iliana Vallejo and Ruth Alvarez ruled that the Civil Registry should “immediately” allow the women to get married. The two ruled this way after citing the historic Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling from January that opened the door for same-sex marriage in...

In 2017, a new version of the Pride flag was released with black and brown stripes to represent LGBTI people of color. Still, not everyone in the community is on board with that change Last year, Philadelphia announced its decision to add black and brown stripes to the Pride flag in support of LGBTI people of color. Soon, a Pride center in Australia followed suit. Now, research conducted by Buzzfeed News and Whitman Insight Strategies shows who is most opposed...

New report finds shocking stats on race-based discrimination Almost two-thirds of black people who identify as LGBT say they face racism from within the LGBT community. According to new research by UK charity Stonewall, 51% of black and minority ethnic LGBT people said they have faced discrimination based on their race from within the queer community. This number jumps to 61% when broken down to just black people. The research is based on YouGov polling of over 5,000 LGBT people. Ruth Hunt, Chief Executive...

Other patrons witness the discrimination When a couple at a restaurant openly discriminates against their lesbian waitress, other patrons decide they’re not having it. This is exactly the scenario a recent episode of ABC’s What Would You Do? series posed. Inspired by a real-life event where a lesbian server received no tip due to her pride tattoo, the segment asks whether or not bystanders would intervene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfBktuMXV00 Both the couple discriminating and the waitress are played by actors. For the waitress, it’s an especially...

'My dad loves my husband Jacob as if he was his own son' The gay son of the bouncer accused of discriminating against a gay couple last weekend in Italy has spoken up to defend his father to Gay Star News. Giuseppe Pitirollo and Daniele Bausilio said they couldn’t enter a beach party in Bacoli, 15km west of Naples. The couple also claimed the bouncer told them a traditional couple ‘is only made of a woman and a man’. The venue Lido...

It's the second time in a week riders have reported anti-gay discrimination in New York City A yellow taxi cab driver in New York City allegedly insulted his passengers earlier this week, telling them, “I don’t drive gays.” Ryan Smith and a friend hailed the cab Wednesday morning from Manhattan to Brooklyn, NBC News 4 reports. While en route, “the driver turned around to interrupt our conversation and was like, ’Are you gay?'” Smith says. “We were like, ’Uh…?’ But before...

In a historic ruling by the European Court of Justice, all EU member states must recognise the residency rights of married same-sex couples – even if the country has not yet legalised equal marriage. The ruling is in response to a case in which Romanian authorities were accused of discrimination against Adrian Coman, who wanted to live in his home country with his American husband Claibourn Robert Hamilton. The couple had been living together for four years in the US, before...

Guards allegedly ignored the Michigan inmates' repeated requests to be separated The family of a gay man murdered by his homophobic cellmate while incarcerated in a Michigan prison is suing the Michigan Department of Corrections, M Live reports. Rodriguez Burks, 23, serving a two-year sentence at the Alger Correctional Facility for fleeing and eluding officers, was killed last July, nine months before he was eligible for parole. DeShawn Madden, 23, has been convicted of the first-degree murder. Recently transferred to Alger, he...