By Melanie Nathan, April 11, 2013. Further to our report about the lowering of rainbow flags to half mast in the Netherlands and protests against Russian PM Vladimir Putin, on April 08, the Dutch LGBT community and allies turned out by the thousands to protest Putin’s proposed anti-gay propaganda law in Russia. On stage performers […]
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The Pope who led the failed crusade against gay marriage in Argentina
Just Another Anti-Gay Pope By Melanie Nathan and Cathy Kristofferson, March 13, 2013. When white smoke appeared from the Sistine Chapel today, heralding a new Pope, LGBTI communities around the world were not expecting anything more than another religious leader to work actively against secular legal rights. Choosing the name Pope Francis, Cardinal Bergoglio, of […]
European Court of Human Rights balances religion against gay rights
By Melanie Nathan, January 17, 2013. The European court of human rights in response to claims brought against the British government in four individual cases by Christians, should, according to the U.K. Guardian, come as no surprise. The detailed ruling shows how difficult it was for the seven Strasbourg judges who heard the claims to […]
Video Topless Gay Women Protesting in front of Pope
Much watch video of the extreme protest by topless “gay” identified women By Melanie Nathan, January 13, 2013. The Petrelis Files report on the Vatican topless protests. Equality supporters staged a topless protest in a packed St. Peter’s Square during the Pope’s address, in protest of Pope’s anti-gay stand against same-sex adoption. The Vatican paper […]
Hundreds of thousands of French Catholics, Evangelicals and Muslims protest at Eiffel Tower against Gay Marriage
By Melanie Nathan, January 13, 2013. The Eiffel Tower was not looking so friendly to Paris and Gays today as several hundred thousand people converged on the Eifel Tower in Paris on Sunday to protest against President Francois Hollande’s plan to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption by June, 2013. Many came after long train and […]
A Report from Stockholm and The ILGA World Conference
By Kristina Hultman, December 16, 2012 After a few days of climate shock, jetlag and defrosting, an unseasoned warmth took over a cold and frosty Stockholm, when four hundred participants at the ILGA World Conference saw its conclusion today, Sunday 16th, casting 242 votes from over one hundred countries, while warming up to camaraderie of common […]
Facebook homophobia bullying may have resulted in Italian 15 year old’s suicide
“They crucified him like Jesus: now I want justice.” Mother of Andrea By Melanie Nathan, November 23, 2012. Outrage is building as a community of grief stricken LGBT Romans in Italy are trying to come to grips with the suicide of a young Italian. His name was Andrea and he was only was 15 when […]
Defending the Gay Family at Installtion of San Francisco Archbishop Cordileone
Anti-gay Catholic Archbishop Cordileone Installed amidst noisy protests By Melanie Nathan, Oct 05,2012. Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone was one of the major voices in the campaign to pass the discriminatory Proposition 8 in California. He is the head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee for the Defense of Marriage, whose purpose has […]
AIDS 2012 to Discuss HIV and World Travel Bans
Dr Paul de Lay, Deputy Executive Director of the UNAIDS Programme said “Every individual should have the right to freedom of movement, regardless of their HIV status. UNAIDS is opposed to any restriction imposed on people living with HIV and restricting movement only on the basis of their HIV status. These restrictions are discriminatory.”
Historic Line-up of Speakers for AIDS 2012 in D.C.
High level speakers announced for XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) By Melanie Nathan July 17, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former U.S. First Lady Laura Bush, South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, U.S. Senators John Kerry and Lindsey Graham, U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi , U.S. Congresswoman Barbara […]
Ugandan Lesbian to be Deported Tonight
Melanie Nathan, June 22, 2012. Gay Star News is reporting that despite protests a 22-year-old Ugandan lesbian who was the victim of violent anti-gay abuse in her home country is to be deported back there from the UK tonight (Friday 22). This has happened far too many times and we have often been able to […]
New EU Commission Report on Transgender and Intersex Discrimination
Posted by Melanie Nathan, June 11th, 2012 The European Commission has just published a new report, ‘Discrimination against trans and intersex people on the grounds of sex, gender identity and gender expression‘. With it, the European Commission looks into the situation of trans and intersex people for the first time. The European Commission had already […]
Sweden Threatens to Deport Persecuted Lesbian back to Uganda
Stop the Deportation of Ugandan Lesbian Nantale Prosscovia. By Melanie Nathan, May 14, 2012. Nantale Prosscovia, a Ugandan lesbian held in a Swedish prison, is facing deportation back to the life-threatening situation she fled 6 years ago. Now a Petition has been launched on the site “GO Petition” to try and save her from this […]
United Kingdom Publishes New Human Rights Report
By Melanie Nathan, April 30, 2012. While the United States has yet to publish its annual (2011) Human Rights Report, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office issued its 392 page report on human rights today and the LGBT section can be found at page 68 as follows:- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights The Government is […]
Catholic Church UK letter to Schools to Sign Anti Gay Marriage Petition
” The Catholic Church has as much right to influence change to secular law as I do to seducing the Pope during Sunday Mass!” By Melanie Nathan, April 26, 2012. The Catholic Church in the UK, including Wales and Ireland, has apparently sent a letter out to high schools to demand that all students sign […]
New Accuser for Secretly Gay Murder Suspect Shrien Dewani
By Melanie Nathan,April, 02, 2012 A beautiful bride and the perfect groom and what better than a honeymoon in magnificent Cape Town, South Africa. It would take wealth to put on the lavish wedding depicted in the photographs splashed across the world press, and that wealth itself would serve to question the very alibi upon […]
JEWISH CEMETERIES IN LITHUANIA TO BE RESTORED
Vilnius – MACEVA (gravestone in Hebrew), the non-profit organization founded by Lithuanian psychologist Aleksandr Avramenko and Lithuanian author Sergey Kanovich, has announced plans to digitize, reconstruct and clean three more pre-World War II cemetery sites in Lithuania.
Muslim Groups Oppose United Nations stand on Human Right To Sexuality
Tomorrow the UN debates Human Rights for LGBT people By Melanie Nathan, 03/06/2012, For us in the USA, “gay rights” is associated with the debate over equality and is about whether LGBTI people should be allowed to marry, adopt, serve in the military, be subject to baseless firing from jobs. Yet others in the World […]
Twitter to Start Censoring by Country | Impact on Gay LGBTI Activism
Twitter announced that the company will now start to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis, allowing the popular microblogging site to comply with local governments’ request to remove, block certain content or users.
Study of Teens of Lesbian Parents shows Happy as Teens from Heterosexual Parents
The quality of life of 17-year-olds reared in lesbian-parent families did not differ from that of a matched group of adolescents who grew up in heterosexual-parent families, according to a new study published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. The study took 78 17-year-olds from the NLLFS—all of whom have lesbian mothers—and matched them based on […]
Hungary’s New Constitution Causes Mass Protests
Sacrifices 1989 Constitutional safeguard amendments; excludes LGBTI, bans same-sex marriage and abortion Posted by Editor, Jan 03, 2011, BUDAPEST;- Hungary has a new constitution, and it has caused tens of thousand of people to take to the streets. The Constitution which was enacted with a vote of 262-44 in April of last year, bans marriage […]
The State of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual in Irish Catholic Controlled Schools
Irish Education deserves a secular chance too – for what ye teach ye shall reap; waiting for the day the Church takes its teachings back to the Church; Posted by Melanie, Jan 01, 2012 Patrick Dempsey (19) often pretended to be sick in order to avoid attending school in Dublin’s inner city. The State of […]
Asking King of Norway to save Gay Iraqi Man Azad from Deportation to Iraq
by Melanie Nathan, Dec 29, 2011. Updated: Petition Started on change.org see below. Outrageous reasons to deport gay man from Norway; save Azad , a young homosexual man, from deportation back to Iraq. The High Court in Oslo, Norway has turned down the application for political asylum after being petitioned by Azad, a 33 year […]
EU Commission Export Control on Lethal Injection
By Melanie Nathan, Dec 21, 2011 Commission extends control over goods which could be used for capital punishment or torture Brussels, 20 December 2011 – The European Commission decided today to extend the list of goods subject to export controls, to prevent their use for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment […]
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