This is Caleb Gardiner and he recently got the boot from an accommodation he found on Craigslist because he’s gay. But, because of how BC’s human rights code works, it’s totally legal.
This year we have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act (1967), which started the process of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales. But the act did not mean full decriminalisation. It only covered acts in private, between two men over the age of 21. It also not cover the Merchant Navy or the Armed Forces.
Roughly 1,500 people on Tuesday marched through the streets of Kathmandu to celebrate the city’s annual LGBT Pride parade. Many wore vibrant costumes and carried rainbow flags, the AFP reported. The parade coincides with the Hindu festival of Gai Jatra, which commemorates the death of people during the year and has also been used as a venue to criticize the government.
Ireland’s prime minister has predicted it is “only a matter of time” before same-sex marriage is introduced in Northern Ireland. Leo Varadkar spoke out in what he called a “support for equality” after he attended a Belfast Pride breakfast in the second day of his first official visit there.
Matt Rood from Brighton beat the other countries to the title at the end of Stockholm Pride at the weekend, making him the first English man to ever win the event. The 37-year-old trained dog walker and trainer said: ‘The experience is something I will always take away with me and remember.’
The bill is the first piece of proposed legislation that extends recognition to this often-ignored segment of society, Dawn news reported. For the first time, a legislation has been introduced in Pakistan’s lower house of parliament to protect the fundamental rights of transgender people in the conservative Muslim nation.
Referee Ryan Atkin has spoken to Sky Sports about his life and experiences as a gay man working in football, making him the sport’s first publicly ‘out’ professional official in the UK. The 32-year-old says his decision to share his story – described as “an important moment” for the sport by the Football Association’s Head of Senior Referee Development, Neale Barry – has been prompted by the recent strengthening of commitments made by the game’s governing bodies to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) inclusion.
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