All Posts Tagged With: "homosexual"

It’s easy to get a sex change in Iran

Gender reassignment is a way to deal with homosexuality in a place where gays are executed Hanna Rosin – The Star The poster for Be Like Others, a documentary that aired on HBO this week, looks like a CD cover for a glam-rock band. One gay-looking Adonis sits on the arm of a red leather [...]

27Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Mexico City Gay Pride Parade Draws Thousands

MEXICO CITY – Thousands of Mexicans marched peacefully through central Mexico City in the 31st Gay Pride March at which they demanded improvements in gay rights, watched over by some 1,500 police. All transpired in calm at Saturday’s parade, Mexico City police department spokesmen said. The annual march by lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgender individuals [...]

22Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

City prepares for gay pride march

Times of India CHENNAI: They’re a section that’s often invisible in a society that still disapproves of alternative sexual choices and even criminalises homosexuality. But, for the first time, members of the lesbian , gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the city are making their voice heard by celebrating LGBT Pride Month, with a [...]

11Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Group Begins Ad Blitz Against Same-Sex Marriage

By JEREMY W. PETERS – New York Times The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative Christian group that has fought efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in California and in the Northeast, has set its sights on New York with its latest media campaign. Beginning Thursday in the New York City and Albany markets, the organization [...]

29May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Indonesia’s transgender community faces discrimination

The Jakarta Post The transgender community faces greater discrimination in public than any other LGBT – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender – individuals, according to speakers at a public discussion in Jakarta on Wednesday. Ienes Angela, a member of Forum Komunikasi Waria, an organization for transgender individuals, said that while they are regularly shunned publicly, [...]

28May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

A proud 1,000 revel in ‘positive gay community’

BY KIMBERLY C. MOORE • FLORIDA TODAY MELBOURNE — More than 1,000 of the Space Coast’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents spent Sunday afternoon at the Wickham Park Pavilion, strolling past nearly 90 vendors, listening to live music and letting their children play. “It promotes diversity, and it gives members someplace to go and [...]

25May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Teachers seek inclusion of transgender, gay issues in curriculum

By Rosalind Raby – Mid-north Monitor The largest representative group of elementary teachers in Canada is calling on the Ontario government to enshrine new legislation into the curriculum. That is not unusual in itself, but this time the group is looking at the ‘Rainbow coalition’, or what is commonly known these days as LGBT. The [...]

20May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Colorado sidles up to civil unions

Small, quiet steps have made the state one of the region’s friendliest to same-sex pairs. By Jessica Fender The Denver Post In five years’ time, Colorado has quietly become one of the most welcoming states in the region for gays, lesbians and transgender individuals seeking the same legal rights as in liberal states. As gay-rights [...]

17May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New UN plan to boost HIV services targets gay men and transgender people

UN news Centre 15 May 2009 – Two United Nations agencies are launching a plan to provide increased HIV-related information and health services to men who have sex with men and transgender populations, while stressing the need to make universal access to treatment, care and support a reality for all. The initiative, spearheaded by the [...]

16May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Pain, progress on global day against homophobia

MONTREAL (AFP) — The International Day Against Homophobia, initiated by a Quebec organization, will be celebrated in more than 50 countries this weekend, decrying discrimination against gays and lesbians. “There are 192 countries at the UN, and half of them still ban homosexuality, notably most countries in Africa, in Asia and Arab countries,” said Laurent [...]

16May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

County ordinance targets discrimination against gay, transgender people

By Daniel Connolly, Memphis Commercial Appeal Gay, lesbian and transgender employees of the Shelby County government would be protected from discrimination under a proposal being considered by the County Commission. The proposal would place similar rules on contractors doing work with the county as well as on private businesses in unincorporated areas. “The intent is [...]

7May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sweden votes in favor of legalizing gay marriage

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden will allow homosexuals to legally marry from May this year after parliament on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move. The change in the law, which currently allows gay couples to register unions but not formal marriage, comes into force on May 1 this year under the timetable set out [...]

1Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Police warn councillor over transsexual joke

A city councillor was questioned by police for two hours after a joke he made at a public meeting attracted a complaint of “homophobia”. Conservative councillor Jonathan Yardley said he was quizzed by an inspector and a sergeant before being “let off with a warning”. Councillor Yardley made the joke when he chaired a recent [...]

31Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender women are not gay men

By Danton Remoto My transgender friends in Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP) met with me for coffee one night in Makati and told me they want to write a rejoinder to my column about our common friend, BB Gandanghari. I was glad to listen to them and learn more about the transgender [...]

23Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Dictionary Redefines ‘Marriage’ to Include Same-Sex Couples

By Elena Garcia Christian Post Reporter One major dictionary company has defined marriage in broader terms than the U.S. government. Similar to the definition of marriage under federal law, Merriam-Webster states marriage as “the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship [...]

20Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Law would extend protections to the transgendered

Posted by Chantal Anderson The state Senate has passed a bill that would extend the state’s hate-crime law to protect transgender individuals. The bill, which passed Tuesday night with a 36-12 vote, is sponsored by Sen. Joe McDermott. The hate-crime law currently covers crimes against people based on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or disability, [...]

12Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Anti-bias bill could see a vote this time

By J.L. MILLER • The News Journal DOVER — The decade-old battle to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation began anew Tuesday with the introduction of legislation in the state House. And this year, with the Senate’s famous desk-drawer veto now apparently out of play, the bill’s chances of reaching the governor’s desk [...]

11Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Lawrence group seeks legal protection for transgender people

By Chad Lawhorn A Lawrence group is asking the city to change its anti-discrimination law to protect people who consider themselves transgender. The Lawrence-Douglas County Chapter of the Kansas Equality Coalition has sent a letter asking commissioners to include transgender protection as part of the city’s human rights ordinance. The change would make it illegal [...]

7Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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