A leading Russian gay activist has announced he will run against a prominent antigay politician for a seat in St. Petersburg’s legislative assembly. Nikolai Alekseyev said in an Instagram post on January 20 that he has decided to run for the seat currently held by Vitaly Milonov in the 2016 election. Milonov is one of
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The organizing committee of Pride in Sofia, Bulgaria, today announced that the equality march, which is the central part of the events calendar of Pride celebration, will take place on June 27, 2015. Sofia Pride is the largest annual human rights event in Bulgaria and the most important visibility raising initiative of the LGBTI community.
On the 20th January, 2015, the Parliament of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) constitutionally defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Furthermore, it created a constitutional hurdle to possible future legislation on same-sex civil unions. The amendment defines that “[m]arriage shall be a life union solely of one woman and
US president Barack Obama made history today (21 January) by saying the words ‘lesbian,’ ‘bisexual’ and ‘transgender’ for the first in a state of the union address. The president that said he pushed for LGBT* rights because ‘as Americans, we respect human dignity.’ ‘That’s why we defend free speech, and advocate for political prisoners, and condemn
Ireland’s Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, has come out gay. Ireland is set to vote this spring on proposals to introduce same-sex marriage, with the majority of nearly every age group and every major political party in favour of the measure. Mr Varadkar, a Fine Gael politician, came out this morning – saying that he
Israel is to re-draft its recognition laws, so trans people will no longer be forced to undergo surgery to legally change their gender. Israel’s Interior Ministry announced it would allow citizens to change their gender designation on ID cards from now on – without requiring them to go through gender reassignment surgery first. The change is
Newly appointed member of the House of Lords Michael Cashman: ‘Unless we set ourselves a goal, we cannot hope to achieve it.’ Lord Michael Cashman has said, if Labour is elected in the next UK government, the party will set itself a goal to achieve decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide by 2020. Speaking at the Gay
The U.S. Supreme Court shall rule this year upon whether gay couples have a right to marry across all states. A successful ruling would see gay marriage being legalized throughout the U.S. In an exciting development, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case pertaining to the legalization of same-sex marriages throughout the
On January 18th, 2015 the Member of the Lithuanian Parliament Algirdas Vaclovas Patackas publicly warned the Board Chair of the national LGBT* human rights association LGL that the organization is “playing with fire” and that its activities might result in a “black, repulsive and totally unacceptable response” similar to that which “happened in Paris.” The
Every year in January, nearly 2,600 world leaders, CEOs, heads of nonprofits, leading academics, and journalists from more than 100 countries gather in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum annual meeting. This forum – more simply known as “Davos” – is one of the most highly visible and prestigious meetings of its kind and generates an