Results for: be the change
-
Canada’s Supreme Court Makes Landmark Ruling In Favor Of Sex Workers’ Rights
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court found the nation’s anti-prostitution laws infringed on the constitutional rights of sex workers.
-
Queer View Mirror: Five Important News Topics We Talked About in 2013
Brush up on this year’s biggest news so you can impress that cute girl at your New Year’s Eve party.
-
Mourning Madiba: South African Queers Grapple With An Uncertain Future
The rainbow nation is a country of contradictions and complexities when it comes to its queer citizens, and as LGBT South Africans mourn Mandela they also worry about the future.
-
UK LGBT Politics Crash Course: What Austerity and the Far Right Mean For Queers
With austerity here to stay and far-right parties on the rise, it is time now more than ever to recognise that queer liberation cannot be disentangled from economic justice.
-
Protecting the Protectors: UN Moves to Increase Protections for Women Human Rights Defenders
Significant opposition to a UN resolution to protect women HRDs raises questions about how to balance local contexts and values with universal human rights, as well as remind us of the very real risks that these women face every day.
-
HRC’s International Expansion Funded By The Worst Humans
HRC has announced that it will begin working for equality abroad as well as in the US — but is that a good thing? Let’s ask Daniel Loeb and Paul Singer.
-
UK LGBT Politics Crash Course: 2013 Was A Real Banner Year for Colonially-Influenced Homophobia in the Commonwealth
From India to Uganda, the legacy of British colonial sodomy laws live on today in many countries around the world. What can or should the Commonwealth do about this, if anything at all?
-
Pope Francis Wants To Know What You Think About Gays (If You’re A Bishop)
The Vatican is soliciting opinions on a number of groundbreaking issues, including same-sex marriage, birth control, polygamy and forms of feminism “hostile to the Church.”
-
Anti-Gay Violence in Cameroon Rises: “We Are Calling on Our Government to Stop Waiting”
Over 100 people gathered in Cameroon’s capital city to demonstrate for harsher punishment of LGBT citizens, distribute anti-gay pamphlets and hang signs with homophobic messages
-
A Few Anti-Gay Apples Ruin the Bunch in Manitoba, Help Make the Case for Bill 18
In Winnipeg it proves difficult for restauranteurs and citizens to thrive when homophobia is the only thing being dished out. But hopefully Bill 18 can change that.
-
PinkNews Gives Award to Anti-Trans Politician, Only One Trans Judge on Award Panel
PinkNews, an LGBT news outlet in the UK, honoured Baroness Stowell, an anti-trans defender of the “spousal veto,” as Politician of the Year. They now face criticism for how the judging panel was put together.
-
Domestic Work Is Real Work: Nicaraguan Co-Ops Stop Being Polite and Start Paying Women
Two Nicaraguan co-ops are doing the unthinkable: considering women’s domestic work on par with men’s work in the fields.
-
Don’t Let London Rain on Your Pride Parade or Potential Lack Thereof
The prospects for London Pride 2013 look bleak, but hopefully communities can change that.
-
The Whole World Can Learn Something From Southeast Gaysia and the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus
What’s far too often missing from the narratives of global activism is the nuances of local contexts and agency of “oppressed” people, who don’t simply sit around waiting to be saved. Here’s where the ASC comes in.
-
Survey Says: Gay is Still Not Okay in Singapore, Won’t Be Any Time Soon
A national survey using homophobic language yields homophobic results: 47% of Singaporeans “reject gay lifestyles.” What does this mean and why is it important?
-
Russia Wants to Ban Same-Sex Foreign Adoptions to Protect Children From “Trauma”
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave orders to the Supreme Court to make changes to Russian adoption laws in order to prevent same-sex foreign couples from adopting Russian children.
-
Dutch Filmmakers Face the First Backlash Against Foreigners from Russia’s Anti-Gay Law
Homophobic legislation escalates and expands in Russia, despite the international attention for the 2014 Olympic Games. Four Dutch immigrants were recently arrested for filming a LGBT themed documentary.
-
From India to Singapore, Queer Visibility in South and Southeast Asia is On the Rise
It’s been a big summer for South and Southeast Asia when it comes to LGBT/queer news. The most important aspect of this news, however, is that it was reported at all.
-
Binary or Blank: Germany Allows Parents to Refrain From Gender Assignment at Birth
Germany becomes the first country in Europe to give parents the option of male, female or neither in birth certificates, sparking what could be “comprehensive reform” in how gender is legally categorised and understood.
-
We Sorta Won a Thing: Taxation and the Long Fight for Marriage Equality in Germany
A recent ruling could finally pave the way for a more thorough redefinition of marriage and family in Germany and it’s on everyone’s favorite topic: taxation.