World News

Demanding Argentinian Culture Wars Stop

Posted on 19 Jul 2024 in World

International NGO Human Rights Watch says all there needs to be said on the horrific murder of three lesbian women in Buenos Aires following a politicisation of gender and sexuality by right wing demagogues. In their moving press release they say "Pamela Fabiana Cobas. Mercedes Roxana Figueroa. Andrea Amarante. These three women died horrific deaths, after a man threw a Molotov cocktail into their boarding house room in Buenos Aires last week. They were all lesbian women. Cobas was severely burned and died almost immediately.

Petition Targets Moroccan Injustices

Posted on 3 Jul 2024 in World

Imagine being sentenced to prison simply for loving someone.

Protecting Minority Literature in Libraries

Posted on 25 Jun 2024 in World

LGBTQ Nation's Good News Feed reports that the Democratic governor of Maryland has signed into law a provision that will make it more difficult for anti-gay and anti-black extremists from banning books from public libraries and school libraries. H.B.

Bringing Down Anti-Trans "Snitch" Form in USA

Posted on 21 Jun 2024 in World

LGBTQIA Newswire Them.us reports that internet users have had fun with an anti-transgender report form that was launched by the Republican controlled state of Utah. Sociologists have noted for decades that LGBT+ people are among the first adopters of new technol

Landmark Ruling in Kenya Offers Hope

Posted on 17 Jun 2024 in World

African LGBTQIA+ newswire Mamba Online reports that the High Court in Mombasa has issued a landmark interim ruling, ordering anti-gay groups and individuals to refrain from inciting violence against LGBTQ+ people in Kenya. The court order issued on Monday restrains MPs and other anti-LGBTQ+ acti

Jun

Report Accuses Aus Police of Heavy Handedness

Australian gay newspaper the Sydney Star Observer says that a new report found that policing of the Mardi Gras Festival Events by New South Wales police was unnces

Jun

Donations Welcomed for Iraqi LGBTQIA+ Groups

It's another consequence of the Bush-Blair War on Iraq in 2003. Foolishly supported by some LGBT+ right wingers and hawks, the war on Iraq toppled a nasty dictatorship, but one which did not perse

May

New Book Celebrates Women's Uprising in Iran

LGBTQIA+ people, women and minority groups from Iran, languishing under the clerical fascist dictatorship of the Ayatollah's, will be in no doubt as the human rights situation in the benighted coun

May

PTHRF Pledges Solidarity with West Papuans

The Peter Tatchell Human Rights Foundation has encouraged its supporters to consider protesting against the state of Indonesia and its occupation of West Papua. T

May

Sacramento Offers Sanctuary for Trans People

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 peo