EU’s top court approves linking funds to respect for rule of law in blow to Hungary and Poland
European Court of Justice’s ruling could cut billions of euros to member states who flout democratic values.
February 17, 2022
European Court of Justice’s ruling could cut billions of euros to member states who flout democratic values.
When French fashion designer, Simon Porte Jacquemus, shared a photo [above] of himself kissing his husband on Monday, he probably thought it would be little more than a sweet Valentine’s gesture.
Get excited, DIVAs! London’s LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, BFI Flare, has just launched its 2022 programme.
Mysterious Ways tells the story of a vicar who decides to have a wedding with his Samoan boyfriend, Jason. A church marriage for gay Anglicans is prohibited. God is forced to step in.
Themed as “Live Out Proud,” the North Texas LGBTQ celebration is set for June 4-5
A massive Russian invasion of Ukraine “would mean the end of today’s Russian regime, and the likelihood of such an outcome is much greater than were the risks of the fall of the House of Romanovs by the Russian Empire’s entrance into World War I,” Vladislav Inozemtsev says.
A US woman has become the third known person who’s gone into HIV remission, and the first mixed-race woman, thanks to a transplant of stem cells from umbilical cord blood, according to research presented at a conference Tuesday.
There were over 700 State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in South Africa, according to the 2012 report of the Presidential Review Committee on SOEs.
New Zealand lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelming passed legislation to ban the widely discredited practice of attempting to forcibly change the sexual orientation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.
TikTok Bans Misgendering, Deadnaming And Promoting Conversion Therapy; First Platform to Attempt Difficult Enforcement; GLAAD Takes Credit
South Africa’s Blue Train, regarded as one of the world’s most luxurious railway journeys, has been suspended after coaches derailed in November and were then engulfed by flames earlier this month.
These LGBTQ-friendly colleges were ranked based on the presence and size of an LGBTQ+ organization on campus, the diversity of faculty, and the resources dedicated to healthcare and social services for LGBTQ+ students, among other factors.
On one hand, President Cyril Ramaphosa said government does not create jobs; business does. Days later, he waxes lyrical about the developmental state. He says he wants both. He can’t have both.
GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is speaking out about a live TV moment featuring two men kissing during coverage of the Winter Olympics in Beijing last Friday.
D66 and VVD will present a legislative proposal on Monday to criminalize gay conversion therapy. Therapies intended to suppress or change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity should be punished with a maximum fine of 22,500 euros or a prison sentence of one year, the parties said.
In a first for Thailand, Bangkok’s Bang Khunthian district officials yesterday announced it will allow the registration of same-sex marriages on Valentine’s Day, although the certificates will not be legally binding.
EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said he saw no reason for governments to introduce a general coronavirus vaccine mandate anymore, given the declining severity of the pandemic.
Gordon Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” says, while pointing to athletes at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics who have tested positive for COVID-19, that China “cannot run a fair Olympics.”
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Supporters gathered for a Safe Schools South Florida & Friends rally to push back against the “Don’t Say Gay” bill earlier this month. The bill would ban school districts from encouraging classroom discussions related to sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.
Study finds previous COVID-19 infection, but not vaccination, improves performance of antibodies and potentially provides longer-term protection
The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its sprawling roots, but in the walls of its microscopic cells.
Athlete, performer and storyteller Alex Archer effortlessly weaves in and out of these roles as a full-time pole fitness instructor and revels in the beauty of teaching, noting that the student-teacher relationship is symbiotic where there is always more to learn. “You never stop being a student,” he says.
On Thursday, HBO Max subscribers were treated to the seventh episode of Peacemaker, the penultimate installment of the series’ first (but hopefully not last) season.
A new professorship exploring the history of sexualities has been established at the University of Oxford.
Men convicted of historical homosexual offences on the Isle of Man will be pardoned in June, the Justice and Home Affairs Minister has said.
Badhaai Do is a complete family entertainer that also bravely addresses a social issue
The US version is about to rebooted, but I’m not sure we need a new version when the original is still so educational.
Oil prices rose late on Wednesday afternoon with Brent reaching just shy of $92 per barrel. But JPMorgan is warning that Brent crude could “easily” reach $120 per barrel—if the geopolitical conditions between Russia and Ukraine deteriorate.
The above-average summer rainfall in the region, which has triggered widespread flooding, is owing to a La Niña event. This is how this climate cycle works, and what it means for the future.
The Ghanaian government has been urged to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the anti-LGBTQ+ bill to determine what its implication will be on the economy before any decision to pass it.
Section 25 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is constantly under attack.
Inside creepy practice of removing penis and testicles.
Even the world’s tallest mountain is not safe from climate change.
Flagrant Political, Homophobic Censorship Violates Human Rights Obligations
A child’s tooth unearthed from a French cave has revealed the earliest evidence of humans — Homo sapiens — living in western Europe.
In a first, an LGBTI+ association’s representative elected to the İstanbul City Council A representative from the Social Policy, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies
Excitement was palpable in the packed out auditorium of the New Theatre Oxford as the crowd waited in anticipation for The Official RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Series Two Tour to start.
Soccer jerseys are everywhere in football-mad Brazil, often with the numbers of the country’s all-time legends: Ronaldo’s 9, Pele’s 10, Romario’s 11. But one number is off-limits: 24, the focus of a homophobic taboo whose origin story is a wacky roller-coaster ride through more than a century of Brazilian history, winding up with the present — but slowly shifting — anti-gay attitudes that loom large in football today.