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
— BuzzFeed: Obama Will Include Same-Sex Couples In Immigration Plan (via brooklynmutt)
(via brooklynmutt)
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)
I am not too scared to post this. I am queer, Muslim, and proud. This was taken of me today marching in gay pride Toronto 2012 with QuAIA (Queers Against Israeli Apartheid).
I’m so proud of you! :) I’m inspired by this picture.
(Source: ummhuraira, via amodernmanifesto)
(Source: fuckyeahreligionpigeon, via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
17 June 2012
End Stop and Frisk: Silent March Against Racial Profiling
June 17 NYC march
The Southern Poverty Law Center is fighting for students at Hardin County High School in Tennessee who were banned from displaying support for LGBT rights in any way.
Isabella Nuzzo and other students were told by an assistant principal that they could not wear rainbows or any other symbols of gay rights because those symbols “advertise or promote sex.” Wait, what?
The group also said the assistant principal terminated a student organized “Week of Pride” event to show support for gay rights and threatened students with suspension, class failure and disqualification from graduations.
“I and many other students were really upset with the school for shutting down free speech about a topic I feel strongly about,” Nuzzo said in the release. “I love my gay friends and life is hard enough without being judged for who you are or for believing in equality.”
I hope SPLC takes this up with a lawsuit, because this is absurd. A rainbow signifies sex? Really? Not only does this perpetuate the flawed but repeated idea that sex is bad bad bad and should never be talked about at school, it likens LGBT rights to purely sexual matters. This deserves attention, and this school deserves a national reality check.
What complete idiots. Suggest everyone in that school take to wearing buttons that say Genesis 9:13 (I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me, and between the earth.)
That ought to fix the know-nothings. What are they going to do, ban Bible Verses in the heart of the Bible Belt?
Huge, critical issue
Emos And Gays Are Being Slaughtered In Iraq
Young people who identify themselves as so-called Emos are being brutally killed at an alarming rate in Iraq, where militias have distributed hit lists of victims and security forces say they are unable to stop crimes against the subculture that is widely perceived in Iraq as being gay.
Officials and human rights groups estimated as many as 58 Iraqis who are either gay or believed to be gay have been killed in the last six weeks alone — forecasting what experts fear is a return to the rampant hate crimes against homosexuals in 2009. This year, eyewitnesses and human rights groups say some of the victims have been bludgeoned to death by militiamen smashing in their skulls with heavy cement blocks.
A recent list distributed by militants in Baghdad’s Shiite Sadr City neighborhood gives the names or nicknames of 33 people and their home addresses. At the top of the paper are a drawing of two handguns flanking a Quranic greeting that extolls God as merciful and compassionate.
Then follows a chilling warning.
“We warn in the strongest terms to every male and female debauchee,” the Shiite militia hit list says.
“If you do not stop this dirty act within four days, then the punishment of God will fall on you at the hands of Mujahideen.”
All but one of the targets are men.
(via anarcho-queer)
Yeah. I am sure they are investigating real hard….
Boston Police Investigating Officer’s For Choking A Gay Protester
Boston Police is investigating its officers’ response to rowdy duel protests at the Boston Common on Sunday, Tax Day, after a photo surfaced showing “a city officer with his hand around a protester’s neck.” As Daily Kos’ Scott Wooledge reports, the Tea Party-organized event was co-sponsored by the vehemently anti-gay MassResistance and featured Scott Lively, “professional worldwide hunter of homosexuals and top proponent of ‘gay cure’” and a proponent of Uganda’s infamous ‘kill gays’ legislation.
As counter-protesters — including Occupy Boston Queer and Trans Direct Action Working Group — expressed their opposition to Lively’s participation, one of the speakers said from the podium, broadcast across the loud speakers at the Commons, “We will not be silenced by faggots.” Read a first-hand account from the protester roughed up in the picture at Back2Stonewall.
(via anarcho-queer)
If you wonder why I, as an internationalist anticapitalist, still identify part of my struggle with the world as beign connected to my sexuality, here you go.
How can homosexuals proclaim anything but hostility to a nation that by and large is willing to amend constitutions to restrict their rights?!
The actual interactive map has a very good timeline and gives you info on each state, HERE
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