Tag: sexual orientation

"Absolutely we could not afford to live on a single income." A new video from Human Rights Campaign (HRC) tells the story of Chad and Bret, a gay couple who’ve encountered a series of employment-related hardships since the birth of their daughter last year. Bret, who is trans, gave birth to Eleanor nine months ago. In the video, the couple reveals that neither of them had access to paid family leave, but that Bret took two weeks of unpaid time off...

Log Cabin Republican president: 'What a way to start the year!' President Donald Trump sent a letter congratulating a group of gay Republicans for their 40th year anniversary. The Log Cabin Republicans started in 1977 in California as a voice for gay conservatives. So President Trump wanted to mark their 40-year milestone with a signed letter of congratulations. He wrote: ‘We are a Nation founded on the undeniable truth that all of us are created equal. We are equal in the eyes of...

Questions were raised in the house of Bigg Boss by the contestants over sexual orientation of Priyank Sharma. In fact, Priyank’s co-contestants from MTV Splitsvilla X even claimed that Priyank’s relationship with Divya is fake, adding that he and Vikas are madly in love with each other. As per them, their closeness is apparently visible in the pics and stories that the duo shares on social media. What’s more, netizens have also called Priyank and Vikas gay and these tweets are...

But they have to wait until 2019 to be able to tie the knot Same-sex couples will be soon be able to marry in Austria. The Austrian Supreme Court yesterday lifted legal restraints that prevented same-sex couples from marrying. Marriage equality from 2019 The old regulation will end on 31 December 2018. This means that same-sex couples will have to wait until 2019 before they’re able to get married. Previously marriage was defined as for ‘different sex’ partners. The Court examined and repealed the phrase ‘different...

A South African court has denied a gay couple the right to adopt a child and the judge did it for a good reason. The adoption would not be in the child’s best interests. The two men have been together for ten years and wanted to have a child with a surrogate mother. Surrogacy agreements have to be approved by a court in the African country before adoption rights are granted. While they have been partners for a decade, one of...

The announcement comes after the United Nations (UN) criticised the Sri Lankan penal system for criminalising homosexuality. Nerin Pulle, Sri Lanka’s Deputy Solicitor General, has pledged to change the penal code in Sri Lanka after the country’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR is a process where countries within the UN have their human rights records scrutinised by other UN member states. The Sri Lankan government received seven specific recommendations, which included the decriminalisation of homosexuality – which is currently punished by...

Next week, Canada’s government will issue a formal apology to citizens who were persecuted just for being gay. For decades, thousands of Canadians working across the civil service were fired purely because of their sexual orientation. The persecution took place from the 1950s right up to 1992, with LGBTQ military personnel being forced out of their jobs for fears they were susceptible to foreign intimidation and blackmail because of their sexuality or identity. The government had also developed a “fruit machine” test...

According to a Cornell psychology professor, a growing number of men are eschewing traditional sexual orientation labels for more fluid terminology like, "mostly straight." Ritch C. Savin-Williams discusses the subject in his book, Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity Among Men. In a new article for TIME, he writes: "If you’re a young man, you might assume that either you’re straight or you’re not, meaning you’re likely gay and maybe bisexual. Yet the evidence suggests that more young men identify or describe themselves as...

More than 60 members of Egypt’s Parliament have supported a “deeply discriminatory” law that will criminalise same-sex sexual activity. It’s believed 75 people have been arrested in the crackdown so far against LGBT+ citizens, and the proposed jail sentences are terrifying. If passed, the law could see those convicted of pro-LGBT+ activity sentenced to up to 15 years in prison, with authorities given the ability to to publicly shame those found guilty by publishing their names and sentences in national newspapers. A...

Giovanni Melton's former foster mom reveals troubled history A father allegedly shot his 14-year-old gay son, with police attributing the killing in part to the boy’s sexual orientation. Henderson police in Nevada say 53-year-old Wendell Melton shot and killed his son Giovanni in the morning of Thursday 2 November. Sonja Jones is Giovanni’s former foster mom and said Wendell always had a thing against his son’s sexuality. She told 3 News: ‘He hated the fact that his son was gay. ‘I’m sure that inside...

His name is Michael Nance, he is a family court judge in Kentucky and his specialization is children adoption. Everything was good until April 2017, when the judge issued an order, demanding all layers who represented gay parents to inform him of their sexual orientation. The purpose, according to his own words, was for him to be able to decline hearing the cases. As Michael Nance declared: The best interest of the child can never be promoted by the adoption by...

Apparently, everybody has the gay in them According to a recent study, heterosexuality just might be a myth. Although it analyzes how women sexuality functions, researchers say that the same data applies to male subjects as well. The difference is that women are more open about their sexual inclinations. Compared to men, they will admit their bisexual nature when that’s the case, or even when they are being attracted by another female, even if they see themselves as straight. Men, on...

One even brought his boyfriend to training. A former Premier League footballer has revealed he’s played alongside several openly gay teammates. Carl Hoefkens, a former Belgium international who played for Stoke and West Brom from 2005-2009, told Belgian news outlet De Zondag that while the players weren’t out in public, they were open about their sexuality in the locker room. Hoefkens stated that two of his former teammates in England were gay, and that he aso played alongside gay teammate after returning...

Col. Leland Bohannon was on the verge of being promoted to a one-star general but it seems that those plans are now on the backburner. Bohannon has been suspended from command and orders came down to prohibit him from being promoted. The reason? Last May the colonel declined to sign a certificate of spouse appreciation for a retiring master sergeant’s same-sex spouse. To do so, he would have to go against his religious beliefs. Now, it looks like not doing so may...