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 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...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Bisexuality, Equality, Featured, Gay and Lesbian, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, News, Power LGBT, Queer Community, Sexuality, Transgender
According to the global list kept by European Pride Organizers Association, nearly 500 LGBT events have been canceled this June, ordinarily the month when the community takes to the streets to be seen. Parades, parties, marches, coffee-house open mics and book clubs,...
by admin | May 27, 2020 | Equality, Gay and Lesbian, LGBTQIA+, Power LGBT, Sexuality
In Costa Rica’s Family Law Code, there is a list of circumstances under which “a marriage is legally impossible.” It includes details about consent, mental status, and citizenship, but there has also been this:
Article 14. A marriage is legally...
