Tag: LGBTI

If you’re only going to one pride this year then you should pick Madrid Pride. This year Madrid will host the famous World Pride. 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the first LGBTI pride parade in Spain. Now 40 years later, Spain continues to be a leader for LGBTI equality and rights. Madrid Pride is one of the largest prides in the world with nearly 2,000,000 participants and a demonstration with about 1,000,000 attendees. The World Pride celebration in Madrid will...

My heart will go on... All a board the Titanic. As much as we love Rose and Jack together perhaps James Cameron missed something by not having an gay couple in the film instead. Well thanks to Proud Unicorn we can now see how the film would of been with a gay couple. Watch the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLEccUahmzcVB0XffJYZakGRZAbCf36Vxd&v=4J74gIDtqz0 Proud Unicorn is a production company that can make your multimedia dreams a reality. Whether it’s video, illustration, show projection, post production, animation, or logo design...

Brazil has had marriage rights for LGBTIs since 2013. LGBTIs in Brazil are fortunate to have many of the same legal protections available to non-LGBTI people. Even so, Bruno was nervous about coming out to his family. So much that he feared being kicked out of his home by his own relatives. His family’s reaction to his coming out will surprise you. Watch his story below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLEccUahmzcVD3oun1fIfLRxTo7j05kToh&v=nVQTLBXZDzQ Micro Rainbow’s mission is to create tools, programs, and policy recommendations that enable LGBTI people to...

Show your support for incarcerated gay men at the Russian Embassy on 12 April London will hold a protest against Chechnya’s concentration camp for gay men tomorrow (12 April). Held outside the Russian embassy at 5.30pm, the protest will be in response to the reports of 100 gay men detained in former military prisons. At least three have been killed, according to LGBTI and human rights activists. Pride In London will lead the protest at the junction of Bayswater Road and Ossington Street....

LGBTI activists on the ground are willing to try and evacuate as many as gay men as they can Chechnya has opened a concentration camp for gay men, an investigation has found. Around 100 men have been apprehended in the region and put in the first camps for LGBTI people since the Holocaust and Fidel Castro. Several are believed to have been killed. A Chechan government spokesperson has denied there were any gay people in the region to detain. They insisted ‘you can’t...

Aceh's Sharia Law could lead to discrimination and over-criminalization of LGBTI people in the province Two men were arrested in the Indonesian province of Aceh under the accusation they were gay and in a relationship. Neighbours reported the two students who said they had been acting ‘lovey-dovey’ for about three months. Police raided a rental home last week and alleged they caught the men while they were having sex. The police also said they found condoms in the home which proved the...

‘The goldfish was not depicted, nor given features or movements, which were homosexual in nature,’ cereal brand says A Kellogg’s ad featuring a forgetful goldfish was accused of vilifying the gay community. The Sultana Bran ad, which aired in Australia, shows father and daughter having breakfast. The girls asks her dad whether it’s true goldfish have a three-second memory. It then cuts to the goldfish, who swims in his bowl and discovered ‘Sultana Bran’s got more fibre than two slices of wholemeal toast’,...

Watch these beautifully diverse videos for this weekend only You can watch five free and amazingly diverse LGBTI short films for this weekend only. Run by the British Council and the British Film Institute, #FiveFilms4Freedom offers films free of charge and all under 15 minutes. Selected for the London LGBT Film Festival, the films cover topics from Grindr to the voguing scene in Paris. Now in it’s third year, the campaign hopes to promote LGBTI representation to an international audience. Last year, the campaign...

Well, this is adorable. Parents of LGBTI kids come together to be the best allies they can be. In an first for India, parents of LGBTI people came together to plan a how to best support their children. The 10 parents attended a closed door workshop in Mumbai to share experiences and to plan their future support. The main aim was to develop ways a parents’ support group could help each other. They also discussed how to help other parents who may...

'When you were like four years old with a sheet wrapped around you, singing Ella Fitzgerald...' Real-life dads and their gay adult kids have sat down for an honest conversation about raising an LGBTI child, fears and responsibilities. And most importantly, the moment the dads ‘knew’ when their kids were gay. ‘When you were like four years old with a sheet wrapped around you, singing Ella Fitzgerald,’ one dad says. ‘And in that moment, I said to myself, “Oh shit he’s gay!’ Watch...

He is receiving massive support during this traumatizing time An activist in France was kidnapped, held captive and violently raped for two days in France. Pictures of Zak Ostmane, an LGBTI rights activist from Algeria, show him to be bloody and bruised in a hospital gown. He is one of the founding members of Shams France, a gay rights organization created in 2014 defending the rights of people born of gender and sexual minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Libya. ‘Last weekend, Zak...

The name has led to resignations from the local Pride Center and a heated town hall meeting last night You’d expect the news of a new LGBTI venue opening in Vermont to be greeted with excitement by the local community. However, it has instead prompted deep division. The reason? Its name. Mister Sister is due to be open shortly in Winooski, Burlington. It’s a rebranding of the business currently at the venue: Oak45 wine bar. It will be the first dedicated LGBTI...

People could face a massive fine or up to 60 days in jail if they break the law designed to protect LGBTI people Two huge regions in the Philippines’ have passed new laws which will protect people against discrimination. Baguio City located in the populous Luzon region passed an ordinance prohibiting discrimination and fostering equal protection of the law regardless of sexuality and gender identity, religion, ethnicity and disability and age. Punishments for violating the law include a fine between P1,000 to...

He was the world's first openly gay prince and now he's using his influence to help LGBTI people A prince who was the first in an Indian royal family to come out has called on the government to scrap the law criminalizing homosexuality. Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil created a media storm when he came out in 2006 and has since used his platform to champion LGBTI issues. In a recent visit as the key guest of the Nagpur pride march, Gohlil said...