Gay News: african rights

The Governor of Kentucky has vetoed a bill proposing legal protection be given to people acting on religious motivations, which activists warned was "a clear and present danger to the gay and lesbian community". (...)

Suza Orman writes on CNN.com that beyond the social discrimination, the refusal of our federal government to legally recognize same-sex marriages imposes steep financial penalties on same-sex...(...)

We'd love to believe the United States is the great American melting pot, where everyone shares common core values and sets aside cultural and religious traditions when it comes to dealing with their fellow citizens.We'd love(...)

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has agreed to meet with Peter Tatchell after the human rights campaigner urged him to support LGBT equality in an open letter. (...)

President Obama received a letter on Wednesday from 110 members of Congress calling on him to sidestep those jackoffs in Congress (present company excluded) and sign the Employment Non-Discrimination Act into law by executive(...)

A gay rights activist in Taiwan has promised to appeal against the country's ban on equal marriage, after being turned down whilst attempting to register to marry his partner. (...)

The Huffington Post reports that South african photographer and activist Zanele Muholi puts the spotlight on her nation's lesbian and transgender community in her new exhibit, Faces and...(...)

Gay rights activists have painted a small house opposite the compound owned by the adamantly homophobic Westboro Baptist Church in rainbow colours, in a political statement against the controversial church. (...)

The host of a US radio station has claimed that Hillary Clinton could be gay, and said that she was "shocked" that, at a UN conference, there were "tents on lesbian lovemaking". (...)

The American Clivil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California wrote to a school district demanding that it end discrimination against gay students by administrators and teachers in its high schools. (...)