5 THINGS TO KNOW

Here are key facts about gay marriage around the world.

Two lesbian women will on Tuesday become the first gay couple to marry in Northern Ireland after the province became the last part of the United Kingdom to introduce equal marriage rights. As Sharni Edwards and Robyn Peoples make history…

5 THINGS TO KNOW

The Trevor Project: It’s not getting better for LGBT kids.

Despite decades of progress on cultural visibility and political rights, queer youth are still killing themselves at alarming rates.  According to a study by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ suicide prevention organization, lesbian, gay and bisexual young adults are over…

5 THINGS TO KNOW

Switzerland votes to outlaw homophobia by astounding majority.

Switzerland has declared, with a large majority in a national referendum, its people wish to criminalize homophobia. With one district left to declare, the vote shows 6 in 10 voters (63%) want the country to criminalize homophobia to the same extent as other forms…

5 THINGS TO KNOW

The 200-year-old diary that’s rewriting gay history.

A diary written by a Yorkshire farmer more than 200 years ago is being hailed as providing remarkable evidence of tolerance towards homosexuality in Britain much earlier than previously imagined. Historians from Oxford University have been taken aback to discover that Matthew Tomlinson’s…