By Day, He Runs for President of South Sudan. By Night, He Unloads Trucks at Lowe’s.
Just minutes into the night shift at Lowe’s, beads of sweat sparkle on Bol Gai Deng’s forehead. He’s at the back of the suburban Richmond store, unloading a 54-foot truck crammed with leaf blowers and barbecue grills, Drano and pitchforks — tough work that drives off most in a matter of weeks or months. Deng […]
These Five Court Cases Could Change the Future of LGBT Rights
The Supreme Court nominee President Trump is expected to announce on Monday could play as large a role in unraveling LGBT rights as retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy did in recognizing them. As LGBT legal advocacy groups previously told The Daily Beast, virtually everything will be on the line if Kennedy is replaced with an arch-conservative: […]
No, LGBT People Aren’t Harming Malaysia, But Child Marriage Is
When the news broke last week that a 41-year-old man from Kelantan had married an 11-year-old girl, alarm bells went off in Malaysia’s newly elected government as well as among nongovernmental groups. The Kelantan state police started an investigation, and activists stepped up calls to legislate a minimum marriage age of 18, with no exceptions. […]
Royal Marines March At London Pride For First Time
For the first time, the Royal Marines have marched through London as part of the city’s Pride celebrations this year. Members of the British armed forces have attended the event celebrating the LGBT+ community for the last 10 years, with hundreds of defence personnel marching in celebration of Pride in London last year. More than one million people took […]
International Support for Budapest Pride March
More than 100 CEOs will march together at Budapest Pride Saturday. Meanwhile, the embassies of 34 countries around the world expressed their support for the rights of LGBT communities. Business leaders from local organizations, SMEs and large multinational companies will join Budapest Pride, including Citi, Blackrock, BP, GE, Diageo, IBM, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Nielsen, Procter&Gamble […]
Reconstituted Supreme Court Bench to Hear Section 377 Case
Days ahead of the crucial hearing on a clutch of petitions challenging the validity of section 377 of the IPC that criminalises consensual gay sex, the Chief justice of India Dipak Misra has reconstituted the 5 judge constitution bench to hear the case. According to the cause list released by the Supreme Court registry, the […]
Britain Cannot Stay Silent as LGBT Rights Are Rolled Back Across the World
From Poland to Egypt to Trump’s USA, independent judges are the last bulwark against governments who threaten gay rights. When I was starting out as a barrister in the 1980s, Lord Denningwas the most famous judge in the land, and the supposed role model for every lawyer. But not for me. Not when I was […]
Public Support for Men in Drag in Row with Chinese Police
A video of a heated altercation between three men in drag and police officers in the city of Suzhou has started tens of thousands of people talking about LGBT rights in China. The video has been widely shared and viewed more than three million times on the Chinese video-sharing site on Miaopai. According to local […]
Colombia Failing to Stem Murders of LGBT People
Colombia has made no progress in stopping killings of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, campaigners said, as new research showed more than 100 were killed last year despite an overall fall in the murder rate. Colombia’s murder rate fell to its lowest level in four decades last year, according to government figures, but the […]
Black Pride: Why We Need an Event to Celebrate Being Black and Gay
Hundreds of thousands of people will line the streets on Saturday to celebrate the LGBT community at Pride in London. But many LGBT black people say they feel excluded at mainstream Pride events and experience racism on the gay scene. And that’s why, the day after Pride in London, UK Black Pride takes place a […]
Only Two Thirds of Generation Z Identify as ‘Exclusively Heterosexual’
Homosexuality is no longer the taboo it once was. But figures suggest that young people are even more open to experimentation than previously thought. Only two thirds of Generation Z identify as solely heterosexual, in stark contrast to previous generations, a study has found. Research by Ipsos Mori found that 66 per cent of young […]
Neo-Nazis In Sweden Allegedly Attacked People Supporting Israel And LGBT Rights
Members of a neo-Nazi group were allegedly involved in two separate incidents in Sweden this week, reportedly attacking LGBT rights supporters and a member of the Sweden–Israel Friendship Association. The men accused of the assaults are members of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), a self-identified National Socialist political party that is campaigning on an anti-immigrant […]