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Cyndi Lauper, Ringo Starr, Laura Jane Grace weigh in on HB 2 law

Celebrities have been showing their dissatisfaction with emerging US state anti-LGBT laws with boycotts, but Cyndi Lauper has devised a different strategy. Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has...

Chinese court rules against same-sex marriage case

A court in the Chinese city of Changsha has refused to grant a gay couple the right to marry in a maiden case for the nation. Hunan...

Senegal journalist faces jail time for homosexuality

Tamsir Jupiter Ndiaye, an eminent journalist in Senegal, has been sentenced to six months in prison for committing acts of homosexuality. The reporter was accused...

US Democrats propose landmark LGBT 'Equality Act'

The US Democratic party are preparing to put forward a new LGBT rights bill that would outline protections under seven different categories, including education,...

Ugandan presidential candidate condemns homophobia

Uganda is a country notorious for its hostility towards the LGBTIQ community. Numerous stories and accounts of institutionalised discrimination and violence towards queer people...

Lex Watson Honoured on Queen's Birthday

LGBT activist Lex Watson, who passed away last month, was today honoured by being appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on the...

Advocates Celebrate 20th Anniversary of U.N. Gay Rights Ruling

On April 11th 1994 Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group announced that the U.N. Human Rights Committee decreed that Tasmania's laws criminalising homosexuality were...

Iranian Pop Star Googoosh Promotes LGBT Rights in New Music Video

Singer Googoosh, known as Iran's 'queen of pop', has released a new video that promotes gay rights. The video is for her new song 'Behesht'...

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