Organisers of the Gay Games have announced they’re pushing back their next outing until November 2023. The next edition of the games was due to be in Hong Kong at the end of 2022, but it’ll now be a year later. Dennis Philipse, co-chair of Gay Games Hong Kong, described the decision as critical to […]
The British Court of Appeal has overturned the decision from 2020 which declared that children under 16 were unable to made a informed decision about receiving puberty blocking hormone drugs as treatment for gender dysphoria. The Tavistock and Portman National Health Service foundation trust, which operate England’s only gender treatment clinic for children, challenged […]
Iconic LGBTIQA+ magazine Gay Times has announced it will no longer be in print, moving to a fully digital delivery in the future. The British magazine had dropped from being a monthly magazine to just four editions a year, but now they’re stopping the presses for good, which will allow them to create more content online. In […]
Warning: This story contains mentions of brutal violence. Six men found to be aligned with al-Qaeda have been sentenced to death for the murder of two LGBTQIA+ advocates in Bangladesh in 2016. The founder of Roopban – Bangladesh’s first LGBTQIA+ publication – Xulhas Mannad (pictured right), and pride rally organiser Mahbub Tonoy were killed by machete-wielding attackers […]
A school board in Virginia has agreed to pay $USD 1.3 million to cover the legal costs of a protracted legal battle over a transgender students request to use a bathroom that aligned with his gender. Fifteen year old transgender school boy Gavin Grimm sued his school back in 2015 after the School Board ordered […]
Switzerland will head to the polls in September to vote on marriage equality and polls are showing the YES option is significantly more popular. Tamedia, 64% of the population said they plan to vote in favour of accepting the government’s amendment to Switzerland’s civil code allowing same-sex marriage. The NO vote has just 34% of […]
A new poll has shown most Hungarians support that young people hear about sexual and gender minorities despite the country’s anti-LGBTQIA+ ruling party. The representative poll – commissioned by Amnesty International Hungary and Háttér Society and conducted by polling agency Medián – found that 46% of the respondents personally know people in the LGBTQI community, […]
The OUTinPerth team spend all day surfing the web looking for the latest news and stories to share. Here’s three recent stories from other outlets that are definitely worth a read. Steph Lentz was sacked this year for being gay. It was perfectly legal. The Sydney Morning herald shared the story of school teacher Steph […]
The Victorian Pride Lobby has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement that Australia will soon introduce Magnitsky-style sanctions, and have urged Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne to impose them on the people responsible for LGBTQ+ human rights abuses in Chechnya. The government’s new laws will allow targeted financial sanctions and travel bans to be imposed on […]
Snickers promotional campaign ‘You’re not you when your hungry’ has been a great success in Australia, but the latest ad in the Spanish version of the campaign has been pulled amid accusations of homophobia. The campaign kicked off in 2010 with a Super Bowl ad featuring actor Betty White. In the United Kingdom Dame Joan […]
