Tag: same sex

Same-sex law reform in the Cook Islands hangs in the balance after a number of opposition members of the law’s reform committee did an about-turn on their original decisions. The Crimes Bill Select Committee of the small Pacific nation recently met to hear submissions on a bill to decriminalise homosexuality in the Cook Islands. The

It’s more than you’d expect… While LGBT+ people have won some significant rights in recent years, there’s still much to be done – especially if you take Gallup’s polling data into consideration. The company have been asking American citizens if they think same-sex relations between two consenting adults should be legal or not be legal since the 1970s. The Washington Post recently unearthed the data and found that a fifth of Americans (23%) still believe gay relations should be illegal. As you can...

Filmmakers ask for $3,000 in Kickstarter campaign, fans donate over $14,000 An awkward boy secretly falls in love with the most popular boy in school, what could go wrong? Well, how about his heart literally beating so hard out of his chest that it starts to cause all sorts of trouble. In this completely wordless animation entitled In A Heartbeat, Sherwin’s heart is on a mission to get him the boy of his dreams. But how will heart-throb Jonathan react? And what will...

A university has advised people not to use the word “homosexual”. The guidance comes from Cardiff Metropolitan University, which released an “Code of Practice on using Inclusive Language” for staff and students last week. The code, which warns students they may face action under bullying rules for violating the guide, which applies “across all areas of Cardiff Metropolitan University activity”. The section on Sexuality and Relationships states: “These days the terms ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ seem laden with the values of a previous...

A federal judge ruled Mississippi’s ban on same-sex adoption is unconstitutional. A federal judge ruled Thursday that Mississippi’s ban on same-sex couples adopting children is unconstitutional, making gay adoption legal in all 50 states. U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan issued a preliminary injunction against the ban, citing the Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide last summer. The injunction blocks Mississippi from enforcing its 16-year-old anti-gay adoption law. The Supreme Court ruling “foreclosed litigation over laws interfering with the right to marry...

When we discover that we’re attracted to the same sex, one of the first things we have to do is decide whether or not we should tell other people. Of course, this is a decision which follows us through our lives - just because all our friends know, that doesn’t mean our families know; and just because our families know, that doesn’t mean we’ve told the people we work with. But even so, there is a core question at...

We have all been there. Whenever something new appears that society is not used to and has difficult times accepting it, preconceptions is what you will encounter the most. This is because people are not ready to accept the facts. The LGBT community is probably the most susceptible to preconceptions, so here are the most stupid ones that some people still hold about gays: mitindo.it 1. Gays are more likely to be pedophiles too, than straight people are. Well isn’t this stupid? The...