The Year 1987 saw President Ronald Reagan challenge Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall. Microsoft released Windows 2.0, the Dow Jones broke the 2,500 mark for the first time, and a church in Boulder crossed a threshold no congregation of its denomination in the state had bridged before.
A bill to amend Finland’s “Trans Act” that forces trans people who wish to change their legal gender to be sterilized still doesn’t have enough support in the Finnish Parliament to be heard by the body’s social affairs and health committee.
Indonesian police have detained 58 men including several foreigners in a raid on a gay sauna, an official said Saturday (Oct 7), the latest sign of a backlash against homosexuals in the Muslim-majority country. Police late Friday raided a building in the capital Jakarta that houses a sauna and a gym after they received information from the public that it was being used for prostitution.
Thomas Kennard is among the handful of transgender singers in the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus — and proud to be one of its lowest basses. “People say, ‘I thought you would be a tenor,’” Kennard says, demonstrating the guttural depths of his range.
Only five per cent of LGBT couples are comfortable showing affection on holiday and half fear judgement and mockery when abroad, according to a new survey.
The Maltese government gave its strongest sign yet it is ready to legalise gamete donation so as to allow lesbian couples to give birth to their own children.
The Prime Minister of Curaçao Eugene Rhuggenaath has called during the Gay Pride Parade in Willemstad for more acceptance. He said not to accept if people live in fear because of their sexual preference. Gay activists in Curacao call the speech “historical”.
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