U.S. Olympian Adam Rippon slammed the White House’s selection of Vice President Mike Pence to lead the country’s delegation at the Winter Games in South Korea next month, explaining the former governor “doesn’t stand for anything that I really believe in.” By Cindy Boren | Washington Post An openl…

source abc.net.au By Sarah Hawke It's official — Cher will perform at Sydney's 40th Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. The 71-year-old pop star and gay icon will headline the Mardis Gras party on Saturday, March 3. Today's announcement was widely expected, after she star hinted in a tweet late last mont…

Source www.nytimes.com By ISABELLA KWAIJAN. 12, 2018 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page Share Tweet Email More SYDNEY, Australia — At one of the first legal same-sex weddings held this week in Australia, two men pledged their lives to each other in front of a roomful of…

Openly gay democratic candidate for Texas governor, Lupe Valdez last week called for a "new Texas" that would put residents ahead of controversial policies like the sanctuary cities law,  proposed bathroom bills other issues she said are on the fringe. "We must begin to start gathering like-minded …

 The rights of same-sex spouses must be recognised by every member of the EU, even if a country’s government has not authorised gay marriage, the European court of justice has been advised.   In what has been hailed as a major step forward for equal rights, Melchior Wathelet, a Belgian advocate ge…

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear a case regarding a Mississippi law that allows people to deny services to LGBTQ people based on “sincerely held” religious beliefs. The Mississippi state law went into effect on 10 October 2016 - just a year after the highest court in the country ruled on th…

Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested several men who appeared in a "gay wedding scene". A video circulated widely online shows two men walking side by side as they are showered in confetti. A long bridal train appears to trail along the ground behind one of the men. Mecca Police have said they had…

Bermuda has forbidden same-sex marriage, only nine months after legalizing it, in what advocates for gay and lesbian rights called a disappointing setback. Same-sex marriage became legal in Bermuda, a British overseas territory, in May as a result of a ruling by the island’s Supreme Court. But the…

source: Think Change India     posted on 15th January 2018  At a time when Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider Section 377 of Indian Penal Code, India's first gay marriage took place in Yavatmal, Maharashtra. It was a union between Hrishi Sathawane, an IIT graduate and his partner from Vietnam, …

Prison sentences up to 5 years for unmarried partners among measures being considered by Parliament Riding a tsunami of moral conservatism and anti-gay prejudice, Indonesia's Islamic political parties appear on the cusp of a major victory: outlawing all sex outside marriage.  Revisions to Indonesi…

Source Claire Chretien https://www.lifesitenews.com In what one expert called the “most bold exercise in judicial tyranny imaginable,” an international human rights court has ordered that 16 countries ignore their own laws and recognize same-sex “marriage” and transgenderism. In one of these count…

Toronto Police have arrested 66-year-old man, who they say is connected multiple cases of missing men from Toronto's Church and Wellesley Village area. source Victor Ferreira http://nationalpost.com  Toronto police have charged a 66-year-old man with murdering two gay men and say they believe he i…

“It was the first time I heard people had the same feelings that I did." By David Moye  A pro wrestler who struggled for years to understand his sexuality said he decided to publicly come out as gay last month after undergoing conversion therapy. “I’ve always known I’m gay,” Mike Parrow, 34, told…

A ban on “conversion therapy,” a discredited practice that attempts to change sexual orientation or gender identity, failed to pass Tuesday in New Hampshire’s House of Representatives.   Two proposed bills would have protected minors from treatments aimed at erasing LGBTQ identity that medical pro…