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Beautiful Thing debut brings tale of British gay teens to Shanghai
One of the most acclaimed plays about teenage gay experience is to open in the Chinese city of Shanghai later this month. Beautiful Thing, a 1993 play by Johnathan Harvey about two working class London teenage boys coming to terms with their sexual attraction to eachother, was a stage and screen hit in the UK and across the world. Website Shanghaiist describes it as … Read all |
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South Korea challenged over "rampant discrimination" against gays
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in South Korea face "rampant" discrimination. A coalition of LGBT groups and straight supporters have used tomorrow's 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations to draw attention to their situation. They called for protection from discrimination on the grounds of gender identity a… Read all |
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Nepal's gay MP to address international leadership conference
The 24th annual International Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference is underway in Washington DC. Among the guest speakers are prominent lesbian politicians Oregon Secretary of State-elect Kate Brown and US Representative Tammy Baldwin, and Sunil B Pant, the only gay member of Nepal’s Constituent Assembly. … Read all |
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Kurdish doctor jailed for writing about homosexual sex
A leading press freedom organisation has called for the release from prison of a doctor sentenced to six months by a Kurdish judge for writing an medical article about sodomy. Adel Hussein was convicted of offending public decency with his article in newspaper Hawlati and sentenced on November 24th in the city of Arbil, the capital of Kurdish-controlled Iraq. Reporter… Read all |
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Indian official questions right of High Court to decrminalise gay sex
A senior government lawyer has said it "may not be proper" for the Delhi High Court to overturn a colonial-era law that bans "unnatural sex" in India. Last month the High Court in Delhi finished hearing arguments in a suit brought by gay rights activists seeking to overturn Section 377. Chief Justice AP Shah reserved judgement and asked both sides to submit transcripts of the… Read all |
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'Ladyboy' protests amid Thailand's political chaos
The ever increasing turbulence of the anti-government protests notwithstanding, a demonstration of a different nature was taking place yesterday in Bangkok. Unaffiliated to any political party, a group of transgender 'ladyboys' paraded past central Police Headquarters in Bangkok to protest at the lack of AIDS awareness in Thailand. Glamorously dressed in brightly coloured ba… Read all |
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Gay penguin couple accused of stealing eggs from straights
A pair of gay penguins has been stealing eggs from straight couples in an attempt to become 'fathers'. The three-year-old male penguins who are kept in Polar Land in Harbin, north-east China attempted to conceal their theft by placing stones at the feet of the parents before waddling away with their eggs. The deception however was noticed by the other penguins and the couple w… Read all |
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UK argued against gay people's right to family life in European Court
A Lib Dem peer has welcomed the government's decision to withdraw from the position that same-sex relationships fall outside the ambit of family life as defined by the European Convention on Human Rights. The British government intervened in the case of two Austrian gay men who argued before the European Court of Human Rights that their country's failure to recognise same-sex couple… Read all |