by Albert | Oct 1, 2017 | LGBT |
by Tom | Sep 10, 2017 | LGBT |
by Tom | Sep 8, 2017 | LGBT |
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Advocates are hoping the Supreme Court is ready to consider and rule on whether federal civil rights laws protect gay, lesbian, and bisexual people from being discriminated against on the job. Jameka Evans, a lesbian who worked as a security...
by Daphne | Sep 7, 2017 | LGBT |
Lukas Coch / AAP The full bench of the High Court has given the Australian government's postal survey on same-sex marriage a green light to go ahead, dismissing two legal challenges against the controversial ballot. The decision means survey forms will be posted...
by Bill | Sep 5, 2017 | LGBT |
(L-R) Co-Chair of Australian Marriage Equality Alex Greenwich, Anna Brown, Public Interest Advocacy Centre CEO Jonathon Hunyor, lesbian mum Felicity Marlowe. James Ross / AAPIMAGE “All Australians deserve an opportunity for love, commitment, and happiness. Gay...
by Daphne | Aug 24, 2017 | LGBT |
Indian Supreme Court in landmark ruling on privacy 24 August 2017 From the section India Image copyright AFP Image caption The ruling is likely to have implications for the Aadhaar biometric scheme India’s Supreme Court has ruled that citizens have a fundamental...
by Britney | Aug 7, 2017 | LGBT |
An unlegislated postal plebiscite on marriage equality would likely be found invalid by the High Court, according to legal advice seen by BuzzFeed News. Dolgachov / Getty Images Prepared by Ron Merkel QC and Christopher Tran, the legal advice says the government would...
by Jessica | Jul 6, 2017 | LGBT |
Jameka Evans Courtesy of Lambda Legal After a federal appeals court said it will not reconsider Jameka Evans's sexual-orientation discrimination case — which it had rejected earlier this year — the group backing the lawsuit said it would be asking the...
by Daphne | Jun 26, 2017 | LGBT |
Brennan Linsley / AP The Supreme Court on Monday announced it would hear the case of a Christian baker in Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, teeing up the country's highest stakes legal showdown about whether laws that protect LGBT...
by Jessica | Jun 22, 2017 | LGBT |
Credits Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text gay rights russia Activists claim 'an enormous victory' after judges rule legislation promotes homophobia One-Minute Read Thursday, June 22, 2017 – 8:45am Russian laws banning the...
by Jimmy | Jun 20, 2017 | LGBT |
Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law has been ruled as a violation of human rights. Under the legislation that was made law in 2013, any event or act regarded by the Russian authorities as an attempt to promote homosexuality to minors is illegal and punishable by a...
by Bill | Jun 20, 2017 | LGBT |
European Court blasts Russia ‘gay propaganda’ law 20 June 2017 From the section Europe Image copyright AFP Image caption Gay rights activists marched against the law in St Petersburg in 2013 Russia’s “gay propaganda” law is discriminatory...
by Jimmy | Jun 19, 2017 | LGBT |
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down two notable victories for free-speech advocates on Monday as it nears the end of its current term. The two First Amendment cases came to the Court from starkly different circumstances, but the justices emphasized a similar theme in...
by Daphne | Jun 9, 2017 | LGBT |
Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena was temporarily renamed on Google Maps this week, as controversy over the Australian tennis legend’s recent spate of homophobic comments continues. Users of Google Maps noticed on Wednesday that the arena at Melbourne Park...
by Britney | Jun 1, 2017 | LGBT |
Navratilova was among the first players to call for a new name for the Margaret Court Arena Eighteen-time Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova has renewed her call for the Margaret Court Arena to be renamed – describing the Australian as a “racist and a...
by Jimmy | Jun 1, 2017 | LGBT |
Martina Navratilova has labelled Margaret Court's comments on LGBT people “sick and dangerous” in a forceful letter calling for Melbourne's Margaret Court Arena to be renamed. Clive Brunskill / Getty Images The letter is the latest missive in an...
by Daphne | May 31, 2017 | LGBT |
Australian tennis legend Margaret Court says tennis today is “full of lesbians” and accused the lesbian players from her time in the sport of leading young players into “parties and things”. Cameron Spencer / Getty Images Court, who is now a...
by Britney | May 25, 2017 | LGBT |
“Australia is falling further and further behind.” Australian marriage equality supporters are buoyed by Taiwan’s landmark court decision, but dismayed at their own country’s political stalemate on the issue. Sam Yeh / AFP / Getty Images On...
by Albert | May 24, 2017 | LGBT |
Taiwan’s top court rules in favour of same-sex marriage 24 May 2017 From the section Asia Image copyright AFP Image caption The debate over whether to legalise same-sex marriage has divided Taiwan Taiwan’s top judges have decided in favour of same-sex...
by Tom | May 18, 2017 | LGBT |
The Russian republic of Chechnya has been accused of pursuing a policy of “genocide” against gay people in a complaint filed by three French LGBT groups at the International Criminal Court (ICC). A lawyer for the groups has accused Chechen leader Ramzan...
by Bill | Apr 19, 2017 | LGBT |
After more than a year of punting, the Supreme Court will finally hear a major church-state case on Wednesday. In 2012, Trinity Lutheran Church in Missouri applied for a state grant to fix up its pre-school playground. Under the program, Missouri would provide rubber...
by Jimmy | Apr 6, 2017 | LGBT |
Republicans go ‘nuclear’ to ram through Trump court nominee 6 April 2017 From the section US & Canada Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mr Gorsuch’s nomination went through a Senate committee on Monday Republicans have taken the historic step...
by Tom | Apr 5, 2017 | LGBT |
Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters WASHINGTON — Existing civil rights laws protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation, a federal appeals court ruled in a historic nationwide first on Tuesday. It is a “common-sense reality,” the US Court of...
by Jessica | Apr 5, 2017 | LGBT |
A US Appeals Court has ruled that civil rights laws protect LGBT+ employees against workplace discrimination. Kimberly Hively, a teacher at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana, alleged that her employer had denied her full-time work because she is a lesbian. The...
by Albert | Mar 24, 2017 | LGBT |
Taiwan top court hears landmark gay marriage case 24 March 2017 From the section Asia Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Chi Chia-wei (centre, wearing rainbow flag) brought on the case with a court petition A panel of judges at Taiwan’s top court are...
by Jessica | Mar 23, 2017 | LGBT |
For most people, inviting your partner to a family dinner is not a big deal. But for Ai-Ju Wang and Ying-Chih Chen, a Taiwanese couple in their 30s who have been together for six years, it is more complicated than that. Supplied The pair met at work – Wang is a...
by Bill | Mar 16, 2017 | LGBT |
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The US Senate should “interrogate” President Donald Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, several of the country’s top LGBT groups said on Thursday, warning that Judge Neil Gorsuch’s track record raises...
by Britney | Mar 6, 2017 | LGBT |
Chris Geidner/BuzzFeed WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will not be hearing the transgender student's case that the justices had agreed this past fall to hear, the court announced Monday. The case instead will be sent back to the appeals court that previously...
by Jessica | Mar 3, 2017 | LGBT |
Drew Angerer / Getty Images Eighteen states and Washington, DC, urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to rule that transgender students must be allowed to use school restrooms that match their gender identity, making them the latest players in a case that has...
by Jessica | Mar 1, 2017 | LGBT |
Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty Images WASHINGTON — Both sides in the Supreme Court over transgender students' rights urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to keep the case. If the justices agree to proceed, a case that started out this past fall as a...
by Bill | Feb 27, 2017 | LGBT |
Jackie Evancho, left, and Juliet Evancho Evan Agostini/Invision / AP WASHINGTON — The transgender sister of a performer who sang at President Trump's inauguration and two of her schoolmates must be given access to school restrooms that match their gender...
by Bill | Feb 21, 2017 | LGBT |
A heterosexual couple have lost their Court of Appeal appeal battle to enter a civil partnership. A couple from London, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, have been in a legal battle for three years to be granted a civil partnership as an alternative to marriage,...
by Daphne | Feb 16, 2017 | LGBT |
Mark Wilson / Getty Images The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously against a Christian florist who had refused to sell flowers for a gay couple's wedding, despite the florist's claim that her religious objections provided legal cover....
by Jimmy | Feb 7, 2017 | LGBT |
The courtroom is silent. A door opens at the back to a man in his fifties wearing a sharply cut navy suit. He walks in swiftly, jaw clenched, glancing to the left at the public gallery, past the dock, and up to the stand. A microphone arches round to his mouth for the...
by Bill | Feb 1, 2017 | LGBT |
LGBT groups have voiced their concern at US President Donald Trump’s nominee for the US Supreme Court. Trump today (February 1) announced conservative federal appeals court judge Neil M. Gorsuch as his nominee to fill the seat left by the the late Justice Atonin...
by Jessica | Jan 15, 2017 | LGBT |
An Italian court has ordered that a 13-year-old boy must attend “youth community” for 12 hours a day after he was deemed “too effeminate”. The court has also ruled that the teen must stay away from his mother between the times of 7am and 7pm...
