Partners
Browse by tags
-
Tuesday, June 03
Source: Deutsche Welle , New York Times , BBC News , AFP Defying threats of prosecution, the mayor of a remote Greek island performed the country’s first same-sex marriage on Tuesday. Tilos Mayor Tasos Aliferis performed the early morning civil ceremony between two men before hundreds of witnesses, including...
-
Tuesday, May 20
Source: Reuters , Agenzia Italia ROME -- Italy's new minister for equal opportunities has angered rights groups by refusing to back a "Gay Pride" march because, she says, gays no longer suffer discrimination in Italy. Mara Carfagna said in comments published on Monday she would not back...
-
Thursday, May 01
Source: Times of India , AFP , IANS via Thaindian.com The wind of change that swept through Nepal in the form of a historic election this month, dethroned its king, once revered as god, and instead gave power to the former Maoist guerrillas, will also see a fresh social revolution with the first gay...
-
Saturday, April 12
Source: Calgary Sun , Canadian Press EDMONTON -- Alberta has issued more than 600 gay marriage licences since a federal law legalizing homosexual unions came into effect in mid-2005, government statistics show. Alberta's gay community says it's more evidence accepting homosexuality won't...
-
Monday, March 31
Source: AP via IHT , Polskie Radio , theNews.pl , UK Gay News , EurActiv WARSAW, Poland -- A gay couple from New York, Brendan Fay and Thomas Moulton, whose wedding images were used in a recent TV address by Polish President Lech Kaczynski, arrived in Warsaw over the weekend. "We come here in the...
-
Wednesday, March 19
Source: Associated Press via Newsday , AFP , Financial Times A gay man from the New York on Tuesday voiced outrage against Poland's President Lech Kaczynski for publicly using a video of his marriage to bash the EU's proposed charter of rights. "Of course I am outraged that the president...
-
Thursday, March 13
Source: AFP , Associated Press via Washington Blade A gay-rights organization in Greece said Thursday it has discovered a loophole in a 26-year-old law that would allow gays to marry legally. The group, OLKE, said a 1982 law legalizing weddings in civil ceremonies refers only to participating "persons...
-
Sunday, November 11
Source: Sydney Morning Herald A gay rights campaigner has defended himself from claims that he verbally abused and physically intimidated Wentworth MP Malcolm Turnbull's wife Lucy over the weekend. Gary Burns, famous for suing John Laws when he used the term "pillow-biter" on air, encountered...
-
Thursday, November 08
Source: The Age GAY RIGHTS advocates have blasted the Federal Government for not doing enough to end discrimination against same-sex couples after it promised to extend eligibility for Commonwealth superannuation death benefits to same-sex couples. But conservative Christian groups have hit back and...
-
Friday, October 12
SINGAPORE (AFP) Singaporean celebrities are rapping for repeal of a law that makes gay sex a criminal offence. The celebrities appear in a video posted on the YouTube website in support of a Singaporean legislator's push to repeal a law making gay sex a criminal offence, activists said Friday. "Repeal...
Page 1 of 1 (10 items)
Drill down
Items above also use the following tags. Click to filter further.
|