A transgender woman who was beaten and threatened with death when she refused to collect extortion money for a Guatemalan drug cartel, was raped and tortured by Guatemalan police, and received death threats from her coworkers because of her gender identity, has been granted asylum in the United States, the SPLC announced today.
Well, it’s here! Today is the first Monday in October, which means it’s the day the Supreme Court begins its new term. And this year, it’s a term full of promise. But it’s also a term full of threats to the future of civil rights in our nation, and to the equality of LGBTQ people.
On September 22, Mashrou’ Leila, a Lebanese band with an openly gay lead singer, played a concert in Cairo. Some who attended waved rainbow flags—an innocuous act in the West, but one that’s far more political in a country like Egypt, with a deep history of anti-LGBTQ persecution.
After siding with countries such as Saudi Arabia, Botswana and Qatar, Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is denying that the U.S. voted in favor of the death penalty for gay people. The United Nations’ Human Rights Council voted 27-13 last week to condemn capital punishment in a variety of cases including against those in same sex relationships, though the U.S. was not in a majority.
In a historic, unprecedented move, a Georgian political party has nominated an openly gay candidate for public office. Running on the non-parliamentary opposition Republican Party ticket, Nino Bolkvadze, a 40-year-old lawyer and LGBT rights advocate, is seeking a city councillorship in Tbilisi, the nation’s capital and largest city.
BOB Hawke has launched a blistering attack on Malcolm Turnbull’s $122 million gay marriage postal survey calling it the “worst economic decision made by any Australian Prime Minister”.
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