World News

Sacramento Offers Sanctuary for Trans People

Posted on 3 May 2024 in World

Q Voice News reports that the Californian City of Sacramento has passed, by a unanimous vote in its legislature, to become a place of sanctuary for transgender people. While California was already a sanctuary state, the city’s resolution, which takes effect immediately, specifically ensures that local funds are not used to aid law enforcement from other jurisdictions in their attempts to prosecute the families of minors receiving gender-affirming care or their healthcare providers. City Council representative Katie Valenzuela, who was one of the sponsors

Documentary Celebrates the Life of Gay Haven

Posted on 2 May 2024 in World

QueerGuru, the excellent culture and arts website, reports that a new movie documentary looks at the history and contemporary culture of Fire Island, the Atlantic car free island territory forty nine miles from New York and a haven for LGBTQIA+ people since the d

NZ Police Seek Vandalising Fundamentalists

Posted on 2 May 2024 in World

Australian based gay magazine DNA reports that police in New Zealand are seeking three individuals who vandalised a rainbow road crossing in Gisborne town. The perpetrators are reportedly supporters of the evangelical Destiny Church and have been identified as two men aged 36 an

Landmark UN Resolution on Intersex Rights

Posted on 1 May 2024 in World

GaySA Radio and Mamba Online, both respected media working for South Africa's LGBTQIA+ communities, both reported this week that South Africa, alongside Australia, Finland and Chile, brought forward a motion to the United Nations that called on member states to r

"Sick" White Fundamentalists Exporting Hate

Posted on 30 Apr 2024 in World

Wayne Besen, progressive chat show host on US radio and blogger, warns that fundamentalist religious groups and cynical corrupt rulers are waging war against LGBTQIA+ Africans. Wayne writes "Forget their toothy grins, sugary sweet professions of “love”, and adamant denials of bl

Apr

Thanks Given for Allyship of Joseph Lieberman

LGBTQIA+ advocacy organisations in the US are giving thanks and remembrance this week to Joseph Isadore Lieberman, a former Democratic Senator who has passed on at the age of eight

Apr

Cuban Society Advances Rights of LGBT+s

The Revolutionary Communist Group, a pro-Cuban left wing party, argues in the group's newspaper Fight Racism Fight Imperialism that Cuban society has made major ad

Apr

Thailand Parliament Approved Equal Marriage

US based LGBTQIA web magazine Them.com reports that the lower house of Parliament in the Kingdom of Thailand has voted by a landslide majority in favour of allowin

Apr

LGBT+ Philadelphians Join in Local Protests

Philadelphia Gay News reports that LGBTQIA+ people in the city's "gaybourhood" have joined forces with anti-gentrification activists, local businesses and leaders of the local Chin

Apr

LGBT+ People Thankful for US Scriptwriter

LGBTQIA+ Groups in the United States have been giving thanks this week for the life of Norman Lear, the television scriptwriter who has passed on at the age of one hundred and one.