by admin | Jul 22, 2020 | Equality, Homophobia, Human Rights, LGBTQIA+, Politics, Power LGBT
In 2019 and 2020, a large number of Polish towns have declared themselves “LGBT-Free” zones, possibly as many as a third of all towns and cities in the country. Under their current leader, Catholic Andrzej Duda, Poland has become increasingly conservative and hostile...
by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | Bisexuality, Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gender, Homophobia, Human Rights, LGBTQIA+, Transgender
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow hung a pride flag from its building in the last week of June 2020, and that’s newsworthy. It’s newsworthy because flying the pride flag is barely legal in Russia. In 2013, President Putin signed a law called “for the Purpose of Protecting...
by admin | Jul 15, 2020 | Feminism, Gender, Human Rights, Women's Rights
“We [will] drop all the laws violating the human rights in Sudan.” The quote by Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari reflects a nearly jaw-dropping truth. Sudan has, in just a week, put into effect a battery of new laws protecting their vulnerable citizens and...
by admin | Jul 10, 2020 | Equality, Featured, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBTQIA+, News, Sexuality
In Chechnya, the law states that “sodomy” or anal sex is a capital crime, with a first and second offense being punished by caning and a third offense by death, by means which include stoning or decapitation. It sounds like a law of antiquity, but it was actually...
by admin | Jun 26, 2020 | Equality, Featured, Gender, LGBTQIA+, Queer Community, Transgender
On Tuesday, June 16, Romanian lawmakers approved a law which will ban all schools in the small European country from teaching anything to do with the separation between gender and sex. Students across the country are protesting what they call an attempt to “send...
