Gay and lesbian activists in KwaZulu Natal Province have launched an awareness programme to curb attacks on LGBTI people in the region. The launch of the programme comes 14 months after the brutal murder of Ncumisa Mzamelo in a north Durban Inanda informal settlement. Mzamelo, 21, was an out and proud lesbian newspaper seller well-known [...]
New awareness programme in South Africa set up to help curb attacks on LGBTI people
, May 4th, 2012 Be the first to comment
Uganda Human Rights Commission report urges right to health for all
, May 3rd, 2012 Be the first to comment
The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has presented its annual report on the situation of human rights in the country to Parliament urging the right to health for all Ugandans, without discrimination. The report, presented on Monday to Parliament, also contains text from Uganda’s Universal Periodic Review (a mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights [...]
Ugandan gay activists applaud passing of East African HIV Bill
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Ugandan gay activists have welcomed the passing of the East African Community HIV and Aids Prevention and Management Bill 2010 by East Africa’s regional parliament, the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Sex work activists have also lauded the bill which was recently passed by EALA during a sitting in Nairobi. Both sets of activists said [...]
Uganda VP tells British Minister death penalty for gays will be dropped
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Uganda’s vice president, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi has told a visiting British government minister that the proposed death penalty in the Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 would be dropped when it becomes law. The government owned New Vision newspaper is reporting that Ssekandi however told the British Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone, that homosexuality was alien to Ugandan [...]
Diocese of Norwich pastoral letter on marriage to all clergy
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The Bishops of Norwich, Thetford and Lynn have written to all clergy about the current Government consultation on the introduction of same sex marriage. Dear Colleague, The current Government consultation on the introduction of same sex marriage presupposes the desirability of a change in the law. Marriage would be redefined as a union of two [...]
Call to resist politicisation of LGBT issue in Malaysia
, April 28th, 2012 Be the first to comment
The politicisation of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issue should be resisted as it could affect faith of the future generation, said Fiqh Contemporary Studies Centre chairman Nasharudin Mat Isa. He said the issue was beyond politics as the LGBT was against the norms of the society. “We must not pursue development to [...]
Ensure transgender people’s rights in Bangladesh
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Speakers at a view exchange meeting in Bangladesh on 27 April 2012 stressed the need for ensuring fundamental rights especially the health, social and legal rights of the transgender people for uplifting their living and livelihood condition. They said the society, as a whole, should come forward with a positive attitude toward the extreme socially excluded [...]
Support for gay marriage in the USA shows steady increase compared with 2008 and 2004
, April 27th, 2012 Be the first to comment
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted April 4-15, 2012, finds that the public is divided over gay marriage: 47% favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally, while 43% are opposed. In 2008, 39% favored and 51% opposed gay marriage. In 2004, just 31% [...]
Research shows homophobia can result from repressed same-sex desire
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A recent article in the New York Times asked why political and religious figures who campaign against gay rights are so often implicated in sexual encounters with same-sex partners? It’s a question Changing Attitude often asks about those Christians who campaign most vigorously against the full inclusion of LGB&T people in the Church. The article began [...]
Same-Sex marriage law improves the health of married, partnered and single gay men
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Goodtherapy.org reports that research by Mark L. Hatzenbuehler of the Center for the Study of Social Inequalities in Health at Columbia University in New York has revealed that the legalization of same-sex marriage improves the physical and mental health of not only gay men in committed relationships but also of single gay men. LGB&T people [...]
