Archive | May, 2011

Europe · Politics · World by Christopher Brocklebank 31 May 2011, 2:38pm Over 50,000 gay people were arrested and imprisoned by the Nazis The German city of Munich, where the Nazis raided gay bars in the early days of the Third Reich, is to have a new memorial dedicated to the gay and lesbian victims of the holocaust. [...]

by Christopher Brocklebank 30 May 2011, 3:25pm Rachel Isaacs is the first openly gay rabbi – of either gender – to be ordianed at the Jewish Theological Seminary The Conservative movement ordained their first openly gay rabbi in a ceremony earlier this month at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. As reported in the [...]

by Christopher Brocklebank 31 May 2011, 1:18pm My Marriage Story hopes to promote the campaign for same-sex marriage in Australia A newly launched Australian website, My Marriage Story, is allowing LGBTI Australians to share stories and ideas about the promotion of marriage equality. This comes after the Australian Lower House of Parliament passed a motion last year calling [...]

Jon Qwelane was found guilty of promoting hate in his newspaper column (above) The South African Human Rights Commission has won a hate speech case against journalist Jon Qwelane over an anti-gay column he wrote prior to his appointment as the country’s ambassador to Uganda. As reported in the Star Tribune, the Commission’s spokesman Vincent Moaga said a [...]

  by Christopher Brocklebank 31 May 2011, 12:56pm A new poll has revealed that Americans believe 25 per cent of their country’s population to be gay or lesbian The findings of a Gallup poll conducted in the USA last month have revealed that Americans estimate 25 per cent of their fellow countrymen and women are gay [...]