Faced with police shakedowns and abuse, rejection from religious conservatives and rampant discrimination, Kenyan LGBT rights activists are challenging provisions of this former British colony’s Victorian-era penal code that implicitly outlaw gay sex. In a move that could spawn copycat tactics across Africa and beyond, three Kenyan LGBT rights groups have…
Two Indonesian men have been arrested for having gay sex. The university students had their rooms raided by residents in Aceh, the only region of the Muslim-majority country where Shariah law is in effect and gay sex is illegal. Condoms and mobile phones belonging to the 21 and 24-year-old were handed over to police.
The centre-left’s Carlos Alvarado Quesada has decisively defeated a conservative Protestant singer in Costa Rica’s presidential runoff election by promising to allow gay marriage, protecting the country’s reputation for tolerance. A former minister and fiction writer, Alvarado Quesada, 38, had 61% of the vote with results in from 95% of polling stations, a far bigger lead than predicted by opinion polls that foresaw a tight race.
A SWAT commander in Colorado has become the first transgender woman accepted into the prestigious FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. In January, Summit County’s Lesley Mumford was accepted into the rigorous three-month program, a combination of classroom work and arduous physical training, one of only 200 law enforcement agents chosen for the honor.
Oklahoma lawmakers may soon sanction private adoption agencies turning away same-sex couples and other prospective parents who don’t meet their religious criteria, a possibility cheered by the Roman Catholic Church and many evangelical Christians and lambasted as discriminatory by gay rights groups. It’s a conflict playing out across the nation, and both sides say that if the other wins, the number of children placed in loving homes will fall.
Homosexuality was illegal in China until 1997, thought of as a mental illness until 2001, and is still considered ‘abnormal sexual relations or behaviour’ by state media watchdogs. Even so, Call Me by Your Name has a cult following in the country, despite never been shown at Chinese cinemas
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