by Jessica | Jun 22, 2017 | LGBT |
by Jimmy | Jun 20, 2017 | LGBT |
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...
by Jimmy | Jan 13, 2017 | LGBT |
A judge has slammed the court process transgender teenagers must go through in order to access medical treatment. Sean Davey for BuzzFeed The court process, which is exclusive to Australia, requires transgender teenagers to apply to the Family Court in order to start...
by Daphne | Dec 16, 2016 | LGBT |
WASHINGTON — A transgender female student at an Ohio school will be able to continue using the girls' restroom under a Thursday evening federal appeals court's ruling. An order that the Highland Local School District allow the student to use the...
by Tom | Nov 27, 2016 | LGBT |
Waqar Ali has petitioned the Lahore High Court for better treatment of members of the transgender community with the help of trans advocate Sheraz Zaka, according to the Express Tribune. The petition calls on Pakistan to provide better protection for the transgender...
by Jessica | Nov 5, 2016 | LGBT |
Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Pittsburgh ruled on Friday that existing civil rights laws banning sex discrimination also protect against discrimination for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. The ruling is a victory for the Equal...
by Jimmy | Oct 29, 2016 | LGBT |
The US Supreme Court has now announced it will take on the case of a transgender male student who challenged a Virginia high school’s bathroom policy, according to LGBTQ Nation. High school student Gavin Grimm was forbidden from using the men’s bathroom...
by Tom | Oct 24, 2016 | LGBT |
A court has ruled today (October 24) that Christian owners of Belfast-based bakery, Ashers, did discriminate against a gay man after they refused to bake a pro same-sex marriage cake. The Ashers’ Bakery in Northern Ireland sparked widespread debate when its owners,...
by Tom | Sep 21, 2016 | LGBT |
Eric Gay / AP How sweeping was a court order last month that banned the federal government from protecting transgender people’s access to restrooms? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the federal government disagree. They are now clashing in court about...
by Jessica | Sep 12, 2016 | LGBT |
AP / Evan Vucci Last month, a judge in Texas issued a sweeping preliminary injunction that appeared to suspend the federal government's ability to apply guidelines that protect transgender students across the United States. Yet in a brief filed Monday, the...
by Jessica | Aug 31, 2016 | LGBT |
Attorney General Loretta Lynch AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta On August 21, a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the federal government from enforcing guidance and rules — based on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 — that protect transgender...
