A 23-year-old man has been tortured to death in Russia in an apparent homophobic attack, investigators said Sunday, amid growing fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise in the country.
France’s lower house National Assembly on Tuesday adopted a bill legalizing same-sex marriages and adoptions for gay couples, defying months of opposition protests.
Despite his anti-same sex marriage stance and his silence on the persecution of fellow Jesuits during the 70s, members of the Progressive Organization of Gays in the Philippines (ProGay) welcomed the election as pope of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis I.
While Filipinos continue to grapple with ever changing social mores brought in part by sectors like the homosexual community, laws that seek protection for their welfare have for the most part been met with favor.
FOR 23 years old Glenn Libradilla, working without fear of discrimination because of ones gender preference is a welcome development.
Tens of thousands of people supporting the Socialist government’s plan to legalize same-sex marriage and adoptions in France have marched in a Paris demonstration.
Britain will announce plans next week to allow gay marriages in churches and other religious buildings, officials said Friday, although Prime Minister David Cameron insisted no faith group would be forced to hold them.
Dozens of cyclists decorated with balloons and rainbow flags streamed through the Vietnamese capital Hanoi on Sunday for the first-ever gay pride parade in the communist state.
Dinh Thi Hong Loan grasps her girlfriend’s hand, and the two gaze into each other’s love-struck eyes. Smiling, they talk about their upcoming wedding — how they’ll exchange rings and toast the beginning of their lives together.
Same-sex marriage is headed for consideration by the US Supreme Court ahead of November’s presidential vote in which the hot-button issue pits President Barack Obama against Mitt Romney.
Gays may enroll at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) but risk a reprimand from a military school proud of its “macho” tradition if they display effeminate behavior.
The US Supreme Court could decide later this year whether to take up the issue of gay marriage, after a group of lawmakers asked it be deemed unconstitutional, a court source said Saturday
Tens of thousands celebrated the first anniversary of the legalization of gay marriage in New York state at the annual Gay Pride March Sunday.
