Lesbian Faith Grace, just lost one of her customers, a mother who hired her for maternity photos, for that reason because she’s a lesbian. This occurred in Alabama, which not to generalize people in the state has many people who are homophobic, and in general having a very negative opinion of the LGBT community. This person was truly directly discriminated against for being a lesbian. The woman found out after seeing an LGBT flag, (the article does not specify whether it was the rainbow flag or another) and immediantly fired her.
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In a first, Bengal LGBT trio joins National Lok Adalat – Times of India
Yesterday, December 10th in the town of Malda in Bengal India, three judges who looked at more than 900 cases that day, were added. Unlike normal additions to the court, these for the first time were three individuals who identified as members of the LGBT community. These three members were excited and honored to be members of the court, one of them saying that being on the court and being called “sir” by the other judges was “unforgetable.” They see this as a turning point for LGBT equality in India.
In a first, Bengal LGBT trio joins National Lok Adalat – Times of India
Ugandan police raid and shut down queer film festival
A LGBT film festival that was scheduled to run for 2 days in Uganda was shut down on its first day, after police were tipped off to it. The police went to even being held in an abandoned warehouse equipped with AK-47s with the intent to kill or arrest those in attendance. Luckily while the event was shut down there has been no report of arrest and everyone in attendance seems safe, this is however unconfirmed that no one was arrested.
Australian Field Hockey Players Strip Down to Fight Homophobia in Sports
This week after the vote legalizing same-sex marriage in Australia, an Australian field hockey team posed and created a nude calendar. They money that the calendar makes is going to be spent in trying to get rid of homophobia and transphobia in sports. (The linked article has a link to purchase the calendar if you were looking to buy it)
Australian Field Hockey Players Strip Down to Fight Homophobia in Sports
Human Rights First Commemorates Human Rights Day with Advocates & Allies of the Year Awards
The United Nations gave out awards for Human Rights Day, to LGBTQ people and leaders in an award of Advocate of the Year to Tatiana Vinnichenko, chair of the Russian LGBT Network who fought heavily to save LGBTQ Chechen Russians in danger. And more importantly the United Nations in Adopting adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which give inalienable rights, such as the right to marriage to all people including, LGBTQ people.
Human Rights First Commemorates Human Rights Day with Advocates & Allies of the Year Awards
16th Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk: Amend or scrap Transgender Bill, participants tell Centre
The Pride walk, was the same as the annual walk in its celebratory nature, with hundreds of people walking with painted faces and holding signs. However, there was a note of disappointment to it in response to the new Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2016, which violates India’s National Legal Aids Service Authority. More importantly according to the Indian LGBT people is its negative definition of transgender.
16th Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk: Amend or scrap Transgender Bill, participants tell Centre
Bermuda is set to be the first country to end marriage equality
The Bermudian Parliament is currently in the process of passing a bill that would ban all same-sex marriage, it has already passed in the House of Assembly, the lower house of the Bicameral Congress of Bermuda. This comes after the Bermudian supreme court ruled that denying marriage went against the Human Rights Act, as it treated people different on the basis of sexual orientation. While there are people against it in Parliament it still looks like it will be passing. This law will not be enacted Post Facto however, and any marriages that happen previous to the passing will be valid.
Bermuda is set to be the first country to end marriage equality
This Arkansas judge got tired of waiting for equality, so he shut things down
Earlier this year in June, the Supreme Court ruled that Arkansas had to issue birth certificates equally to opposite-sex and same-sex parents, which went against their previous policy which demanded that the biological father in all situations being put on the birth certificate. However after 5 months this change had still not occurred, Tim Fox, who originally heard the case that went all the way to the Supreme Court that created that policy, shut down all birth certificates being given to anyone. Less than two hours later the governor, with the state legislature mandated that all counties must follow the rule set forth by the Supreme Court.
This Arkansas judge got tired of waiting for equality, so he shut things down
This Edmonton-based gym for LGBTQ people is the first of its kind in Canada
After negative experiences at Edmonton’s gyms as a non-binary person, Kyle Fairall wanted to create a gym that acted as a safe space for queer, trans and non-binary people in Edmonton.
On Sunday, Fairall will receive an award for human rights for creating Queerflex — the first gym dedicated solely to LGBTQ people in Canada.
Queerflex is a non-profit gym in Edmonton, focused on serving the LGBTQ community by offering one-on-one fitness training in a safe and inclusive environment.
This Edmonton-based gym for LGBTQ people is the first of its kind in Canada
Tennessee’s first LGBT historical marker honors Penny Campbell
A historical marker is going was placed today December, 9th in Tennessee, that was the first marker of LGBT history. It will honor Penny Campbell the lead plantiff in decriminzing gay sex, in 1996 in Tennessee. She also went county to county pushing clerks to request same-sex marriage licenses.
Tennessee’s first LGBT historical marker honors Penny Campbell
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