Tag: LGBTQ rights

The anti-gay crackdown in Egypt is getting hotter and hotter as each day goes and now Grindr users might want to get off the app if they want to stay safe. Just last week, we shared that Grindr was sharing information on how to stay safe with users in the country of Egypt. But, it looks like the app may be more of a liability than a help now. Apparently, Egyptian police are luring gay men to hotels while using Grindr...

The first gay couples in Germany will begin marrying this weekend, reports say. Back on June 30th, lawmakers voted on whether the country should legalize marriage equality and same-sex couples were happy to see the vote pass in favor of it. The law now reads "marriage binds two people of different sexes or the same sex for life,” and that change allowed an estimated 94,000 couples the right to marry each other. As you can imagine, several of those couples have been...

A new law in Haiti would ban gay marriage, along with showing any public support for LGBTQ rights. Charlot Jeudy, of the gay rights organization Kouraj, is leading the charge to stop the proposed new law. It passed last week in the senate and would fine either party not in a marriage between a man and a woman, $8,000 and up to 3 years in prison. The bill would also outlaw any public support for LGBTQ rights. At the moment,...

Hundreds of thousands flocked to Madrid World Pride, the largest LGBTQ pride event in the world, for over a week of events, wrapping up on Sunday night. Madrid World Pride coincided with the 40th anniversary of the first LGBT pride protest in Spain, taking place in Barcelona. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu4zoWBEkHQ Saturday’s parade doubled as a protest march, led by all of Spain’s major political parties, carrying a banner reading, “For LGBTI Rights All Over The World.” https://twitter.com/WorldPride2017/status/881178096845639681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F07%2Fhundreds-thousands-celebrate-worlds-largest-pride-madrid%2F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1WiSM0jxpY Spain has been on the forefront of LGBTQ rights, granting...

As any good, competent global leader should. It seems like common sense that national leaders, governmental figureheads, and global influencers should care about all of the people they govern and whose lives their decisions affect. That’s why, during her annual address to Parliament today, Queen Elizabeth II adapted to the times and, for the first time ever, included LGBTQ rights in her outline for the United Kingdom’s policies moving forward. “My government will make further progress to tackle the gender...

Queen Elizabeth II isn’t having any of the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric being spewed by Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and other Republicans. In an address to the UK parliament today, the 91-year-old monarch publicly pledged to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. Said the Queen: “My government will make further progress to tackle the gender pay gap and discrimination against people on the basis of their race, faith, gender, disability or sexual orientation.” But it didn’t stop there. The Queen also informed the public–in her reserved, British...

When We Rise is a new television miniseries about the battle for LGBTQ rights, an adaption of the Cleve Jones memoir set to air on ABC in February of next year. Guy Pearce stars as a younger versions of Jones, and Mary Louise Parker as women’s rights activist Roma Guy. Also rounding out the cast are Rachel Griffiths, who plays Guy’s wife, Whoopi Goldberg as Pat Norman (the first openly gay employee of the San Francisco Health Department), and Rosie O’Donnell as Del Martin (co-founder of...