Tag: Germany

Thousands of people came together to celebrate a new beginning at Berlin Pride. The annual event, which took place over the weekend, had a different feeling this year as people came to celebrate the recent legalisation of same-sex marriage across Germany. We’ve rounded up some of the best photos to show you what you missed out on… #SquadGoals https://www.instagram.com/p/BW4fE09AjEw/ It wouldn’t be pride if there weren’t half naked men around. https://www.instagram.com/p/BW2_ahmFi7W/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BW26RbJngJz/ Or some political statements… https://www.instagram.com/p/BW2vWGFjmvm/ The cutest marcher award goes to… https://www.instagram.com/p/BW2IG3FBxpT/ There were performances from RuPaul’s Drag Race...

Same-sex couples will hopefully be able to get married from October this year Germany’s president has signed a bill to make same-sex marriage legal. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier signed the legislation late yesterday (20 July). It will come into force on 1 October at the earliest. Lawmakers approved the bill on 30 June, with 393 politicians voting for marriage equality while 266 voted against. Chancellor Angela Merkel voted against same-sex marriage. However, she freed her Christian Democrats from the party whip on the issue calling...

A gay couple from Russia seeking asylum in Germany has allegedly been questioned by a judge for four hours about their sexuality because the judge did not believe that they are gay. Pavel Tupikov and Igor Popialkovskii had left Russia after their lives were put at risk when a police officer blackmailed them. The two fled to Germany and are now in the process of seeking asylum and part of that process meant that Tupikov had to appear in front of...

After they recover from their injuries, they are likely to be sent back to the same refugee camp where they were attacked A Serbian gay couple seeking asylum in Germany have barely survived a vicious attack at the refugee camp where they were living. The incident was revealed in a Facebook post by Javid Nabiyev on the Queer Refugees Pride page. The men were beaten last week and ‘were almost dead’ when they arrived to hospital. Nabiyev and the Queer Refugees Pride...

Congratulations Germany! Germany has voted to legalize same-sex marriage. 393 politicians voted for marriage equality, while 266 voted against. Chancellor Angela Merkel voted against same-sex marriage. However, she freed her Christian Democrats from the party whip on the issue calling for a ‘vote of conscience’. The reform gives same-sex couples full marital rights, and allows them to adopt children. The German legal code will now read: ‘Marriage is entered into for life by two people of different or the same sex’. ‘We are feeling really emotional,’...

Germany’s parliament will hold a vote on same-sex marriage this week. The last-minute decision comes just days after German Chancellor Angela Merkel publicly softened her stance on marriage equality, with a free vote expected to take place in the Bundestag this Friday. If passed, the bill will allow same-sex couples to marry with the same rights as opposite-sex couples, including the potential to jointly adopt children. And it’s expected to pass, as all of Germany’s other main parties – the Social Democrats,...

He personally delivered his party's action against the German government to the Federal Constitutional Court An out gay politician has sued Germany over its failings to establish marriage equality. Volker Beck has been representing the Green Party in the German Bundestag since 1994. He has been campaigning for same-sex marriage since 1992 and is sometimes referred to as the father of Germany’s civil partnership law. And he is really fed up with the government’s refusal to vote on marriage equality, although they debated...

A huge majority of Germans support same-sex marriage, a new poll has revealed. The poll, conducted for German Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag, revealed that 75% of Germans favour full legal equality for gay people in life partnerships. Only 20% of those surveyed opposed same-sex marriage, while 5% had no opinion on the matter. This is a higher level of support than it was in the UK the day before same-sex marriage became legal in 2014 – a poll carried out by...

'If you gays aren’t able to conceive children of your own, then please don’t meddle with how others educate their kids' An pre-watershed sex toy advert featuring a gay couple is causing uproar in Germany. The 30-second spot, produced for online sex shop Amorelie, shows gay couple Ingo and Dylan sitting on their bed and opening a parcel. They discuss one of the toys’ name and get a bit flirty, including a slightly bad pun, but that’s as explicit as it gets. The...

This is the happiest advert on earth A German theme park is using a Christmas advert to show its support for gay couples. Belantis, an amusement park in Leipzig in Eastern Germany, released its new clip on Thursday (8 December). Focusing on families, it shows a whole host of different set-up, from an expecting mom, a grandfather and his new grandchild, and siblings. And among all the happiness, a gay couple are strolling along, cuddling and kissing. Over all of it, a little girl...

Two penguins are celebrating their 10th year of partnership, as a gay couple. Dotty and Zee are two Humboldt penguins that reside at Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany. Scientists have found that more than 450 species of animals display gay behaviour. They have been together for over a decade now and are completely inseparable. At first, the couple were left to their own devices as the zoo did not yet realise both Dotty and Zee were male penguins. However, after a few years of dedicated...

Germany has the largest LGBT population in Europe, according to research. The news comes from Berlin’s Dalia Research GmbH, which published the results of a Europe-wide EuroPulse study, which interviewed 10,000 people across 28 EU countries. According to the study, reported by Vice.de Germany leads Europe in terms of LGBT population size, with 7.4% of Germans identifying themselves as LGBT. When asked to place themselves on a Kinsey scale between exclusively heterosexual and exclusively homosexual, 10.9% of Germans said they weren’t exclusively...

The German Justice Ministry plans to allocate the funds in order to compensate the thousands of gay and bisexual men convicted under archaic sex laws. The German government has announced that it is making preparations to compensate more than 50,000 men who were jailed for being gay under Paragraph 175 – a law which criminalised homosexuality and was enforced until the late 60s. To say that the law is archaic is a bit of an understatement, as it was introduced in...

Meet Armin Meiwes, the world known cannibal who devoured his gay lover. He is also known as the Rotenburg Cannibal or The Master Butcher and he worked as a computer technician until he met Bernd Jurgen Amando Brandes, a reputed engineer from Berlin, on the internet. What followed next cannot be described in simple words. The details are gruesome and there’s one thing that stands out: the victim was an accomplice. As weird as this may sound, Bernd had met...