by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | #Russia, Bisexual, Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gender, homophobia, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Transgender
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow hung a pride flag from its building in the last week of June 2020, and that’s newsworthy. It’s newsworthy because flying the pride flag is barely legal in Russia. In 2013, President Putin signed a law called “for the Purpose of Protecting...
by admin | Jul 10, 2020 | Equality, Featured, gay, homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBTQ, News, Sexuality
In Chechnya, the law states that “sodomy” or anal sex is a capital crime, with a first and second offense being punished by caning and a third offense by death, by means which include stoning or decapitation. It sounds like a law of antiquity, but it was actually...
by admin | Jun 26, 2020 | Equality, Featured, Gender, identity, LGBTQ, queer, Transgender
On Tuesday, June 16, Romanian lawmakers approved a law which will ban all schools in the small European country from teaching anything to do with the separation between gender and sex. Students across the country are protesting what they call an attempt to “send...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Bisexual, Equality, Featured, gay, identity, International, lesbian, LGBT, LGBT community, LGBTQ, News, Power LGBT, queer, Sexuality, Transgender
According to the global list kept by European Pride Organizers Association, nearly 500 LGBT events have been canceled this June, ordinarily the month when the community takes to the streets to be seen. Parades, parties, marches, coffee-house open mics and book clubs,...
by admin | Apr 30, 2020 | Equality, Featured, LGBTQ, Transgender
In 2010, Victor Orbán was made Prime Minister of Hungary for the second time when his party, Fidesz, the national conservative party of Hungary won the major of the the Parliament. Fidesz is a party based on pro-European and anti-immigrant platforms, closely aligned...
by admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Civil Rights, Featured, LGBTQ, News
On April 11th, Ralph Northam, the Democrat governor of Virginia, signed a bill into law which will expand protections for LGBTQ Virginians. Under the existing law, which stands until the new one takes effect on July 1st, 2020, it is legal to discriminate against...
