The National Press Club today revealed it will host a debate on marriage equality in Australia later this month. LGBTIQ rights, particularly the right to marry, have been a key point of political and public discourse – particularly since the recent events in Ireland and the United States. The debate will see South Australian Senators […]
Just 2 days before the launch of Vienna Pride, the National Assembly of Austria voted against a proposed resolution to grant homosexual couples “the human right of equal marriage”. Just 26 representatives voted for the legislation, with the remaining 110 members of government voting against. The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) spoke openly at […]
The government of Mozambique have made amendments to their laws, effectively decriminalising homosexuality in the African country. The revision removes the phrase “vices against nature” from constitutional documents, a remnant of Portugal’s colonial roots in Africa’s south east. Other African countries have been moving in a very different direction, intensifying laws that persecute the LGBTIQ […]
Libby Phelps, granddaughter of the late Fred Phelps Senior who was the figurehead of the Westboro Baptist Church (infamous for picketing funerals and their slogan ‘God Hates Fags’), has posed for the NOH8 campaign. Libby Phelps left the church in 2009. Earlier this year she gave an interview condemning the church and its practices. “They […]
Singer and equality activist Annie Lennox has thrown her support behind the NOH8 campaign. The online campaign aims to promote marriage and gender equality through visual protest. Lennox is a long time equality campaigner who has often used her work to highlight injustices in the world. Among the celebrities who have taken part in the […]
Liza Minnelli is the latest celebrity to pose for the NOH8 campaign. The campaign was launched is response to California’s Proposition 8 bill that reversed the legalisation of gay marriage. The legendary entertainer posed with tape across her mouth. In a statement Minnelli said, “Here’s what I believe … no shame, no blame, no guilt. […]
IDAHO day has grown in prominence over the last few years, if you haven’t come across it before it’s the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, and it’s on May 17th. Now I didn’t automatically assume that IDAHO day was from Idaho, it is after all an acronym, but I did presume that this new […]
