Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state the south has the highest number of people living with HIV. Two of the groups most at risk are gay and bisexual black men. “It is not the end of the world in 2017 if people are diagnosed because they can live a long healthy life,” said Gary Jenkins with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
This week, a group of the country’s most prominent evangelical figures released a document condemning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and those who affirm them in what they called the Nashville Statement. Read the list of signatories and you’ll recognize the names — presidents of some of the country’s largest seminaries and pastors of burgeoning evangelical churches.
In just over a week, ballots for a nationwide postal vote will be sent out asking Australians whether or not they want same-sex marriage. But advocates of gay marriage are pushing back against the vote that asks whether the law should be changed to allow same-sex unions. Their challenge will be heard by Australia’s High Court in Melbourne on Tuesday, with a ruling expected Wednesday.
The ruling Social Democratic Party in Romania intends to organize a referendum this autumn to limit the constitutional definition of the family. This would effectively exclude the possibility of legalizing same-sex marriages, party leader Liviu Dragnea said, quoted by Reuters.
President Robert Mugabe says people like Takunda Amina are “worse than dogs and pigs” – so daily life as a gay man in Zimbabwe was never going to be easy. At 24, Amina has already been chased from his family home, forced to marry – twice – and fathered three children who ask him tough questions about sex and sexuality. He has been vilified in the national press – snapped at a gay party – and rejected as a disgrace by his parents. Not even the best spiritual healers could ‘cure’ Amina of being gay.
A member of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F), one Pakistan’s hardline religious parties, this month proposed the country’s first piece of legislation aimed at protecting the rights of transgendered people. The Transgender Bill 2017, which is expected to pass in the coming weeks, represents the most eye-catching sign of an awkward alliance between Pakistan’s increasingly visible transgender community and its fundamentalist religious wing.
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