Tag: gay rights

Hammer: I didn't want kids 'printing out pictures of my penis' Armie Hammer almost turned down his role in upcoming gay coming-of-age film because of excess nudity. Hammer stars in Call Me By Your Name, the story of 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) living with his parents in Italy during the 1980s. When Oliver (Hammer), a 24-year-old academic comes to live, a striking and electric relationship evolves. But Hammer almost didn’t accept the role: ‘I did want to pass,’ reports the Hollywood Reporter. ‘It scared...

Last month, we told you about the three men who were slated to become Colombia's first legal polyamorous family. And now, the gentlemen are speaking to The Guardian about their upcoming nuptials. Manuel Bermudez and Alejandro Rodriguez have been together for 18 years. And their soon to be three-way union is not be the first time the couple found themselves on the frontline in the fight for gay rights. 16 long years before country's constitutional court would make same-sex marriage legal, Bermudez and...

37-year-old Xavier Jugelé was part of the response team called to the scene of the Bataclan massacre in 2015. The policeman killed in Thursday’s night’s attack by a gunman in Paris was a proud gay rights activist with a civil partner, it has emerged. Tributes have been flooding in for Xavier Jugelé, 37, who was killed by a gunman on the Champs-Élysées on Thursday night in what French authorities are treating as a terror attack. Jugelé, who was a member of Flag,...

Police in Berlin, Germany thwarted an attempted bombing of the Russian Embassy during a pro-LGBTQ rights demonstration. The rally took place on April 8, and was in response to the poor treatment of the LGBTQ community in Chechnya, as news has come out of prison camps where gay and bisexual men are held against their will, interrogated, and tortured. A 24-year-old Moroccan man planned to mix in with the pro-LGBTQ rights demonstrators and set a bomb off in front of the...

Malta has made history as the first European country to ban gay conversion therapy. The island nation passed the bill that will mean any medical professional found guilty of prescribing the so-called ‘gay cure’ therapy could be jailed. Politicians voted through the Affirmation of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression Bill, labelling gay cure therapy as “deceptive and harmful”. The new ban will see anyone found guilty fined up to $5,000, or even sent behind bars for up to five years...

Some people feel that the day they came out was like another birthday. It's a day where your life starts anew.  You find out who your friends truly are, who in your family support you, and the weight off your shoulders shifts and may even disappear.  I was fortunate that I only lost one friend / former college roommate.  Just one person that I know of didn't care for me being gay.  That's it.  To say I was fortunate...

The Obama Administration is preparing to announce the nation’s first monument to gay liberation, Stonewall National Park, which will be located in New York City‘s Greenwich Village, considered the birthplace of the modern movement. The historic designation will encompass the Stonewall Inn bar, Christopher Park, a sliver of green space across the street from the bar, and parts of the surrounding neighborhood. According to The Washington Post, the National Park Service will designate the area as historic in time for the city’s pride celebration,...

“Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.”   Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton’s newest campaign ad could be considered a counter-attack on the recent anti-LGBT legislation passed in North Carolina and Mississippi. Although the spot never directly mentions the onslaught of so-called religious freedom and “privacy” bills moving through state legislatures, it does reinforce the former Secretary of State’s long support of LGBT equality. The montage serves as a super-cut of clips from Clinton’s previous campaign speeches and policy positions...

This past Saturday was the date of the annual Gay Pride festival in Hong Kong. Last year, the festival was also attended by the Occupy activists as well. It was felt that linking the political democratic tone of the Occupy movement and a gay rights agenda was not universally accepted.  However, what did happen is the Occupy activists supported the call for equality in gay rights. The support from Occupy was not only in words and action, but also...

Controversial changes can only occur through some kind of social mutiny and sometimes these social acts become one man’s personal struggle with the system and the world. the-dissident.eu His name was Harvey Bernard Milk and he was the one who decided that man makes society and not the other way around. Milk wrote history when he was elected as the first gay component of the San Francisco County Board Supervisors, a thing that was unheard of before. The words that he...

The 1990’s signified the start of a change, regarding how homosexuality was viewed by the majority. But the times were still uncertain, as today’s supporters were convinced detractors back in the days. Clinton, for instance, signed in 1993 the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” decree, meant to protect the gay soldiers and allow then to join the military forces, which previously was not possible. But in 1996, the same Bill Clinton, signed the Defense of Marriage Act that defined the...