Same-sex couples in Colombia are supposed to be able to form legal unions starting Friday. But unclear guidance from top officials could leave lower-level officials confused about whether to call the unions “marriage.”
“All things that are in the constitution, here they don’t mean anything, they don’t translate to our daily lives. People are being killed,” a married black lesbian activist in a Cape Town township says.
Peruvian national police raided an underground gay bar in the city of Pucallpa last week to shut down a same-sex wedding ceremony.
“GALZ is not taking this incident as a random act,” the gay-rights organization says after five men wielding hammers disrupted a meeting of LGBT activists in Zimbabwe.
This is the second crime in less than a month that police have said was motivated by homophobia. Russian authorities usually resist classifying such attacks as hate crimes.
Immediately after registering their union under the United Kingdom’s Civil Partnership Act, the couple filed for asylum fearing they would be killed if they return to Pakistan.
Malaysian politicians have recently stepped up anti-LGBT rhetoric, and trans activists are fighting back online.
The Methodist Church of South Africa dismissed Rev. Ecclesia de Lange after she legally married her wife in 2010. Now she’s suing to win back her ministry.
The legislation has a good chance of becoming law on the island just months after its supreme court upheld a ban on same-sex couples adopting children.
The Supreme Court of Belize held hearings this week on a challenge to the country’s colonial-era sodomy law. This is at least the third former British colony where courts have taken up challenges to sodomy codes this year.
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