Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman has been diagnosed as contracting COVID-19, just a month after he described the highly infectious coronavirus as a punishment from God for homosexuality. “It’s a divine punishment against homosexuality,” Litzman declared in March, his comments drawing wide spread condemnation. The lawmaker had reportedly shunned the lock down rules recommended by the […]
Irish PM Leo Varadkar has reactivated his medical licence and will return to working as a doctor one day a week. Ireland’s leader was a GP before he entered politics, and now he’s doing his part during the COVID-19 crisis by heading back into the hospital to help hands on. His office confirmed to the […]
Singapore’s High Court has rejected three different cases challenging the country’s colonial era laws that outlaw homosexuality. Section 377A of the country’s Penal Code criminalises same-sex relations between men. The law was introduced in the 1930’s when Singapore was ruled by Britain and echoes similar laws left by the British around the world. LGBTI human […]
The 2020 World AIDS Conference, which was to be held in San Francisco and Oakland later this year will move to being a virtual online conference. Conference organisers have announced the huge conference which would have been the events 23rd gathering will still take place from 6-10 July but it will now be held online. […]
Singapore’s LGBTIQ+ festival Pink Dot will not take place in its usual arena of Hong Lim Park this year, but the organisers have found a new way to celebrate. Since 2008, the protest event and Pride celebration has been held in Hong Lim Park – the only legal space for protest in the small Asian […]
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning will be released from custody after a judge declared her testimony was no longer needed in a Grand Jury investigation. Manning, a former intelligence analyst, stole hundreds of thousands of classified documents from the US military and leaked them to Wikileaks. She was asked to testify before a Grand Jury looking into […]
Chelsea Manning’s legal team have revealed that she is currently in hospital recovering from a suicide attempt. The former US Intelligence Analyst is currently being held in a US prison on contempt of court charges after she refused to testify into an inquiry about Wikileaks. Manning has been held on remand since last May, she […]
Music and social media channels have removed a song by Malaysian band Bunkface over its anti-LGBTIQ+ message. Bunkface song Akhir Zaman was removed from Facebook, Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music for violating the platforms community standards. LGBTIQ+ advocacy group Queer Lapis highlighted the lyrics “LGBT boleh pergi mampus”, which translates to “LGBT can go die”, to […]
LGBTIQ advocacy group just.equal has welcomed Canada’s move toward criminalising LGBTIQ conversion practices. Earlier in March, a Bill was introduced in Canada’s Parliament that would effectively ban practices designed to change or suppress a person’s sexuality or gender across the country. The amendments, introduced by Canada’s Attorney General David Lametti and Minister for Diversity, Inclusion […]
A Bill has been introduced in Canada’s Parliament this week that would effectively ban practices designed to change or suppress a person’s sexuality or gender across the country. The amendments, introduced by Canada’s Attorney General David Lametti and Minister for Diversity, Inclusion and Youth Bardish Chagger, would expand on province-based bans to criminalise ‘conversion therapy’, […]
