Sergey Piskunov can count at least 10 friends and acquaintances in Russia who were killed because they were gay. It wasn’t always dangerous to be queer in Russia. In the early 2000s, there were gay pride parades in his hometown. People felt more comfortable coming out and living in the open. Piskunov, who is 36 years old, lived as an openly gay man for 15 years and had a successful career in Moscow.
Elijah Daniel, a gay YouTube comedian, paid $100 to the town of Hell, Michigan in order to be declared its mayor. Now, with his newfound power, this American hero has criminalized heterosexual activity, a long overdue decree that’s sure to get this country back on track.
Gay men who were convicted of same-sex offences in Scotland before laws against homosexuality were dropped are to receive full pardons. The BBC understands the Scottish government will announce a new bill next week. If approved in parliament it would mean that all convicted gay men in Scotland would receive the formal pardon.
New Jersey’s first Healthcare Conference for the LGBT Community will be held on October 6, 2017. The conference is supported through a grant from Sanofi. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, a facility of RWJBarnabas Health, and Garden State Equality will host the day at Raritan Valley Country Club, 747 State Route 28, Bridgewater from 8 am to 3 pm.
There is no other LGBT Pride celebration anywhere in the world like Amsterdam’s. The city famous for its canals, cannabis, and sexual freedom has long been an example to the world of how to treat its gay and lesbian citizens with dignity and respect, and of how to do full legal equality right. So it should come as no surprise that Amsterdam’s annual LGBT Pride celebration is one of the most unique in the world, with boats instead of floats that literally float around the city’s rings of picturesque canals as hundreds of thousands of Dutch revelers – most of whom are straight – and tens of thousands more international visitors come out along the waterways to celebrate Holland’s diversity […]
In the metropolis that helped give rise to the modern gay rights movement, a new housing project is building homes for its aging members. The LGBT Network showed off plans for a 75-unit affordable housing apartment complex that embraces lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) residents, the first development of its kind in Long Island, New York. The Islip Town Board is expected to vote on the development this fall.
The High Court of Justice rejected on Thursday a petition by the Israeli Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Association to recognize same-sex marriage. Justices Elyakim Rubinstein (former deputy to the president), Neal Hendel and Anat Baron rejected the claim that according to interpretations of the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, same-sex marriage should be recognized. They said there is no contradiction in the state’s current position regarding this issue.
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