[ad_1] New Delhi: Several LGBTQ rights activists have called the survey on same-sex marriage by an RSS body “dangerous and misleading” and accused the organisation of “spreading disinformation”. According to the survey by Samwardhini Nyas, an affiliate of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti (a women’s organisation which parallels the RSS), many doctorsContinue Reading
[ad_1] New Delhi: More than 30 LGBTQIA+ collectives of law school students have said the Bar Council of India (BCI) resolution urging the Supreme Court not to deal with pleas seeking legalisation of same-sex marriage is “antithetical” to the Constitution. The apex bar body, on April 23, had expressed its concern on the same-sexContinue Reading
[ad_1] New Delhi: A group of over 400 parents has written to Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud, heading a bench hearing the pleas seeking legal sanction for same-sex marriage, urging that their LGBTQIA++ wards be granted the right to “marriage equality”. The letter by Sweekar-The Rainbow Parents’ assumesContinue Reading
[ad_1] Gay sex is punishable by life imprisonment in Uganda and a proposed law would impose the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’. An LGBTQ-led church held in a safe house supporting transgender people in Kampala is defying the threats and providing a space for worship for Uganda’s Christian sexual minoritiesContinue Reading
[ad_1] “It is maddening and it is sad to see the continuous attack of people who are quote unquote, other,” state Rep. Michell Raynor-Goolsby, a Democrat from St. Petersburg and the state’s first Black female queer legislator, said in an interview. “And that is what we’re seeing in this legislature,Continue Reading
[ad_1] Kampala: Uganda’s Parliament has passed a bill to criminalise people identifying as LGBTQ and under which a person can be jailed for up to 10 years. As homosexual acts are already illegal in the east African country, now under the proposed Anti Homosexuality Bill 2023, friends, family and membersContinue Reading
[ad_1] New Delhi: Activists and members of the LGBTQ+ community have criticised the Centre’s opposition to granting recognition to same-sex marriage, saying despite India’s plurality and diversity the government still believes that marriage rights can only be given to heterosexuals. In an affidavit before the Supreme Court which is scheduledContinue Reading
[ad_1] I could not have imagined the LGBTQ movement building such momentum when I first visited Ukraine as a reporter in 2013. Ukraine was then on the verge of consummating its long-negotiated “association agreement” with the European Union, a step Russian President Vladimir Putin bitterly opposed. As the deadline toContinue Reading