New Zealand’s parliament has become the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalise same-sex marriage.
Lawmakers voted 77 to 44 in favour of the gay-marriage bill on its third and final reading on Wednesday night.
"— http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/04/201341711953608939.html
How Gay Is Your State?
According to this Gallup Poll, North Dakota isn’t very gay.
The former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton declared her support for same-sex marriage on Monday, bringing her into line with other potential Democratic candidates for the 2016 presidential nomination.
In a video posted on the website of gay rights group the Human Rights Council Clinton said: “LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage.
“That’s why I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law.”
"— http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/18/hillary-clinton-endorses-gay-marriage
By investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917, Terence Kissack expands the scope of the history of LGBT politics in the United States. The anarchists Kissack examines—such as Emma Goldman, Benjamin Tucker, and Alexander Berkman—defended the right of individuals to pursue same-sex relations, challenging both the sometimes conservative beliefs of their fellow anarchists as well as those outside the movement—police, clergy, and medical authorities—who condemned LGBT people.
In his book, Kissack examines the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, the life and work of Walt Whitman, periodicals such as Tucker’s Liberty and Leonard Abbott’s The Free Comrade, and the frank treatment of homosexual relations in Berkman’s Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, By defending the right to enter into same sex partnerships, free from social and governmental restraints, the anarchists posed a challenge to society still not met today.
— BuzzFeed: Obama Will Include Same-Sex Couples In Immigration Plan (via brooklynmutt)
(via brooklynmutt)
These signs have been plastered all over Santa Cruz and they make me stoked. #trans #transrights #bashback #lgbt #lgbtqqia #transexuality #transexual
(via anarcho-queer)
Even more fucking disgusting. All of them are white. It’s clear what side of history they stand on.
Vote Yes Billboard. by Urban Camper. on Flickr.
(Source: aydeebaybee, via anarcho-queer)
Coming out to your students at 24 is possibly more awkward than coming out to your friends at 14
International lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates are crying foul after a top court ruled to uphold a ban on Pride marches in Moscow for the next 100 years.
As the BBC reports, the ruling came after Russia’s best-known LGBT rights activist, Nikolai Alexeyev, had sought to overturn the city council’s ban on Pride festivities. According to the ruling, the earliest that a Pride march, rally or celebration can take place in May 2112, Pink News notes.
Still, Alexeyev vowed to continue the fight. “We will appeal against the actions taken by the Russian authorities, which have banned gay pride parades in Moscow for the next 100 years, in the European Court of Human Rights in the nearest future,” he was quoted by Interfax as saying. “Thus, we will get the invalidation of the bans not only on past, but also future gay pride parades in the Russian capital.”
(via amodernmanifesto)
Disgusted by this fucking country. Wait till the presidential elections. You’ll see. Be a raging, blatant bigot, and a good 40 some percent (if not more) of the nation will rally around you.
I know a lot of amazing people in the US. But this nation is home to some of the most ignorant, vile people I have ever had the misfortune of walking past on the street.
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