South Korea’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to allow an LGBT rights foundation to legally register as a charity, reaffirming respect for LGBT rights in the country, Human Rights Watch reports. The Beyond the Rainbow Foundation has faced discriminatory rejection from multiple government agencies over the past three years, preventing the group from receiving tax-deductible donations.
Beginning later this year, restrictions around gay men donating blood will be relaxed in Scotland and England. Right now, gay men can only donate blood if they have not had sex with another man for 12 months, but that period of time will soon be reduced to three months.
The National Trust has reversed a decision to bar volunteers from public-facing duties at a Norfolk stately home if they refuse to wear rainbow sexual equality symbols. Staff at Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk were offered behind-the-scenes roles after saying they were “uncomfortable” wearing multicoloured badges and lanyards for a “Prejudice and Pride” event marking 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
The upcoming Victorian Pride Centre in Melbourne, Australia added black and brown stripes to its rainbow logo in support of indigenous Australians and Australians of color. The bold political move was inspired by activists halfway around the world in Philadelphia who included similar stripes on a pride flag at this year’s Philly Pride to highlight LGBT people of color within the fight for queer rights.
GARETH THOMAS is a Wales rugby legend who was capped 100 times for the national union side. He came out as gay in 2009, making hm the first openly gay professional rugby union player.
On a hot Sunday afternoon in June, the team at Grace’s, the UK’s first LGBT cricket club, played a squad from Merton, Wimbledon. Asad comes click-clacking up the narrow wooden staircase in his spikes and pulls on a helmet that turns out not to be his – he can’t get the chin strap done up. “Do I really need a helmet out there?” he asks, nodding towards the field, framed by the dormer window in a hot and airless changing room. Team-mate Stuart’s response is immediate and firm: “Definitely.”
Kayakers from across the country will be in Ottawa this weekend for the Whitewater National Championships, but one long-time competitor is racing for what feels like the first time. Transgender paddler Katalina Murrie has competed in the men’s category of paddling competitions for years, but this time she’ll be competing with the women.
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