Fifty-five years ago, a group of LGBTQ New Yorkers rioted, protested, and got arrested when taking a stand against a routine police raid of a gay bar in Greenwich Village. While the Stonewall Uprising was not the first time the community fought back against oppression, those six days of confrontations with police — which began […]
LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/Getty Images Thailand’s Senate has voted to approve a marriage equality bill, which will make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Today, the bill passed its final reading, with 130 of the Thai Senate’s 152 members voting in favor, four voting against, and 18 abstaining. It must now be […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve a marriage equality bill, clearing the last legislative hurdle for the country to become the first in Southeast Asia to enact such a law. The bill passed its final reading with the approval of 130 of the 152 members of the Senate in attendance, […]
Proposition 8, the one-sentence ban on same-sex marriage that became California law in 2008, may no longer be in force, ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court more than a decade ago. But within the headquarters of the California Family Council, an official sponsor of the amendment, its passage is still recalled with a sense […]
Iowa is one of the lowest-ranking states in the Midwest for LGBTQ+ equality, according to an annual index evaluating all 50 states on LGBTQ+ inclusion and its effect on business. The state ranked No. 9 out of 12, with Illinois having the highest score of the region and South Dakota sitting at the bottom. Out […]
Members of the LGBTQ community and allies take part in the Bangkok Pride Parade in Thailand on June 1, 2024. Thailand looks set to become the first Southeast Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage. Credit – Lauren DeCicca—Getty Images Thousands of people flocked to the streets of Thailand’s capital Bangkok on Saturday to mark Pride […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has proclaimed May 19 ‘Marriage Equality Day,’ honoring a decade since the court case that legalized marriage equality in Oregon. That decision in that case, Geiger v. Kitzhaber, was issued on that same day in 2014 when a U.S. District Court Judge struck down Oregon’s limitations on marriage […]
The chairman of a top equality watchdog created by the French government is facing calls to resign over what employees call sexist and racist comments. Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette, head of the High Council for Equality (HCE), denied accusations over her allegedly unabashedly “offensive” remarks and that she had a “toxic” management style as “a desire to […]
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Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights abuses, the United Nations chief said on International Women’s Day. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a packed UN commemoration that “a global backlash against women’s rights is threatening, and in […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights abuses, the United Nations chief said on International Women’s Day. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a packed U.N. commemoration Friday that “a global backlash against women’s […]
Activists and LGBTQ+ community members have handed out colourful chocolates for Valentine’s Day in Tokyo, marking the fifth anniversary of the launch of a legal battle to achieve marriage equality for same-sex couples. Japan is the only member of the G7 group of nations that still excludes same-sex couples from the right to legally marry […]