The NBA Champion Golden State Warriors will host an LGBT Pride Night during the team’s game against the Toronto Raptors on Oct. 25. It’s believed to be the first time a defending NBA Champion team has hosted an LGBT Pride Night.
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk jailed for five days in 2015 after refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, is touring Romania in support of a campaign to block legal recognition of such unions there. The group Liberty Counsel, which represented Davis when she vaulted into the national spotlight, says Davis and the group’s vice president of legal affairs, Harry Mihet, are touring the Eastern European country to discuss the effects of same-sex marriage in the U.S.
Michelle Suarez became Uruguay’s first transgender senator on Tuesday, October 10. The 34-year-old lawmaker, who was sworn in as a senator for the Communist party, hopes to pass an anti-discrimination law that would expand and protect the rights of transgender people. In 2013, Suarez helped draft a same-sex marriage bill that later legalized gay marriage.
Dozens of companies including Alphabet Inc’s Google, Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, and Viacom Inc have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to address whether a law banning sex discrimination in the workplace provides protections to gay employees.
In the appeal Berthiaume v. Smith et al, the plaintiff, Raymond Berthiaume, was represented by Akerman LLP and the plaintiff’s trial counsel, Hugh L. Koerner, P.A. At oral arguments, Akerman argued that the lower court’s failure to question potential jurors about anti-LGBT bias was an abuse of discretion because of the high likelihood of prejudice the plaintiff was likely to face in a proceeding where the fact that he is a homosexual was inextricably bound up with the facts of the case and the conduct of the trial.
AS THE closing date for the same-sex marriage postal survey nears, thoughts are turning to the final result and what percentage needs to be achieved for it to be accepted. More than 16 million survey forms have been posted to eligible Australians and an estimated 10 million survey forms had been returned as at Friday, October 6.
In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, homosexuality is legal and the state largely stays out of issues of private morality. But as conservative religious groups become more prominent in political life here, police are increasingly finding other ways to crack down on LGBT communities.
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