Tag: LGBTI

Pastor Steven Anderson goes on AIDS rant after he was banned from boarding a plane to Jamaica The Jamaican government has banned anti-gay Arizona pastor Steven Anderson from flying into their country. The preacher believes gays should be stoned to death. He welcomed the Pulse nightclub shooting and argues women should be subservient to men. He is also a Holocaust denier. Anderson received the news while on his way to the Caribbean, on layover in Atlanta, Georgia. Airline officials told him he...

It may technically be Australia Day today, but more people turned up to support Indigenous people atrallys across the country January 26 is officially Australia Day, the national holiday where everyone gets a day off to celebrate being Australian. The date was chosen because it was the date that British explorers landed in Botany Bay and began the colonization of the continent. But for Indigenous people in Australia it is not a day of celebration, but rather the day that marks the...

While Bermuda decided to make same-sex marriages illegal again (after only six months of having it), at least gay sex is legal there. For many Caribbean countries, this is not the case. Though, that might be changing soon. The current law in Trinidad & Tobago is that gay sex can lead to life in jail. That said, a legal challenge by Jason Jones calls for “the discriminatory ‘buggery’ laws from British colonial past, to be struck down from the constitution.” As...

Students describe the decision as a 'major and unprecedented accomplishment for a Catholic university' Georgetown University announced this week that it will offer LGBTI student housing. The catholic university is in Washington D.C., capital city of the US. The university’s Office of Residential Living has announced it accepted the proposal for a new Living Learning Community (LLC). The new building will provide safe space for students to explore gender and sexuality. Crossroads: Gender and Sexuality is the name of this new LLC. It is intended...

The US president says he is not a 'big fan' of the new $1bn embassy building The US President Donald Trump has canceled his plans to visit the UK in February where he was due to open the new US Embassy in London. In a tweet this morning the US president says he is not a ‘big fan’ of the new $1bn (£738m, €827) embassy. Naming the ‘bad deal’ as the reason he wouldn’t attend. However, with large protests planned including by...

A landmark court ruling has ordered 16 new countries to make same-sex marriage legal. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights reached a decision today on a marriage equality petition submitted two years ago by Costa Rica President Luis Guillermo Solis. 20 countries agreed to follow the court’s rulings when they signed the American Convention on Human Rights, including 16 which have not yet legalised same-sex marriage. These countries are Barbados, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti,...

Over ten thousand UK LGBTI young people were made homeless this year Over ten thousand LGBTI young people were made homeless in the UK this year, new Liberal Democrat figures show. The UK centrist political party say the extent of the ‘national scandal’ UK homeless youth face is now clear. Freedom of information requests from 234 councils across the country shows 45,000 18-24 year-olds came forward to local authorities in past year. Figures from Albert Kennedy Trust show that of young homeless people...

GOP staffer said Wes Goodman was 'all over Craigslist' Anti-gay Republican Wes Goodman resigned last month after being allegedly caught having sex with a man in his office. The Ohio state legislator admitted to reports he cheated on his wife but now past lovers reveal new details. Former GOP congressional staffer Chris Donnelly said he met Goodman on Craigslist under the prominent lawmaker’s alias Brady Murphey. He told cleveland.com the two had a sexual encounter in 2008. Goodman replied to a post on...

'We have angry hairy bears, sassy queens, seasoned queer hockey players and everything in between' At the west coast Australian Perth Pythons LGBTI Hockey club, you can be exactly who you want to be. And that’s just part of the reason why they’ve been showing their sticks off – in their naked calendar. Speaking to Gay Star News the Perth Pythons Secretary Leo Nelson says The Pythons are more than just a sports club: ‘We are also a group of great friends. We...

Catch these queer hidden gems in high quality and at your leisure on gay streaming service Dekkoo Sponsored: Mainstream Hollywood has made some admirable, if sanitized attempts at LGBTI stories over the years. (With, of course, a few notable triumphs). But more often than not, non-heterosexual characters are sidelined – if not obscured altogether. When it comes to the real and raw representations of all things queer on film, independent cinema is where it’s at. A character in ‘Mexican Men’ As such, my list...

One of the parents is Padma Iyer who famously took out a classified to try and find her son a husband A group of parents with LGBTI children made history in March when they came together to work on strategies to support the LGBTI community and now their group has grown. The second meeting of the Parents Support Group recently was not only bigger than the first, but they were also able to give their group a name. The advocacy group will...

They face three years in prison for consensual gay sex in their own home Two men have been arrested and tortured for gay sex in Uzbekistan. Police said the two men, both in their 20s, are facing three years in prison for ‘engaging in illegal sexual relations’. The couple had moved into a rented apartment in Tashkent, the capital of the former Soviet nation, in September. It is unknown how the police found out about the couple. Police torture two gay men in Uzbekistan Authorities...

Fans have paid tribute to the club Portland’s gay club Embers Avenue is going to close after 48 years tonight (30 November). But it isn’t rising rents or growing disinterest in LGBTI nightlife that is being blamed. The club have announced it because of a far more tragic reason: the main owner has had a stroke. The Embers Avenue owner had a ‘massive stroke’ ‘Unfortunately The Embers Avenue will be closing as of 2:30am on Friday morning,’ reads the post. ‘The main owner of our...

'I was torn between my husband and my child.' ‘I was torn between my husband and my child.’ These are the words of Carolyn, a Catholic mother who now regrets disowning her gay son, David. Speaking as a part of Eric Kruszewski’s documentary on LEAD, an LGBTI group in Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church, she talks about her family and the moment she found out about her son’s sexuality. ‘The time that we found out about David’s homosexuality was very, very difficult. We happened...