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Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n actress and filmmaker, “citing her identity as a ‘Muslim queer person.’” Mexico: Governor apologizes after dismissive reference to same-sex marriage The Governor of Nuevo León Jaime Rodríguez Calderón—also known as “El Bronco”—was the target of LGBT protests after he said “Marriage is between man and a woman and I do not believe in the other zonceras (silliness).” He later apologized, saying he had been misunderstood. Thailand: Justice ministry…

Can Eurovision’s Rainbow Arch Undermine Ukraine’s Orthodox Value System? This and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ted on May 24; it could clear the way for same-sex couples to get married. Mexico: Some officials in Michoacán refuse marriage licenses in spite of legal change Some civil registry officials in Michoacán are reportedly continuing to refuse marriage licenses to same-sex couples even though the state legislature changed its Family Code last year to include marriage equality. Paraguay: Presidential candidate pledges support for marriage equality Fina…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…V treatment, has also been postponed, a Global Fund spokesperson confirms. Mexico: Chihuahua suspends marriage for same-sex couples There’s more evidence of continued resistance to the advance of marriage equality, where conservative Catholic and evangelical Christians have been rallying opposition with the help of US-based religious groups and who want to but a restrictive definition of marriage into the country’s constitution. The Civil Registry…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…p in liberal drag, helping make nationalism respectable again in the West. Mexico: activists push state to follow-up on court orders and legislate marriage equality Activists are calling on the Congress of the state of Chihuahua to amend state laws to recognize marriage equality. Mexican activists have been pursuing a long-term strategy of having same-sex couples get injunctions, or amparos, from federal courts allowing them to get legally married…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…public consultation were in favor of same-sex couples being able to marry. Mexico: More firsts on the marriage equality front Two women reportedly became the first same-sex couple married in Nogales after the state’s appeals of a court ruling in their favor was rejected. Two men who received a federal court order became the first same-sex couple married in Guaymas. In Chihuahua, Governor Javier Corral Jurado affirmed that the Civil Registry cannot…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay — countered the African Group’s efforts to postpone the new mandate. A petition to protect the position launched by ILGA garnered the support of 850 human rights organizations from 157 countries. Last Monday the human rights committee of the General Assembly narrowly voted down the suspension attempt and then voted 94 to 3 with 80 abstentions to approve t…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…uples are reportedly prepared to get married in a mass wedding in Acapulco,Mexico on Friday. Archbishop Carlos Garfias Merlos has made it clear that the weddings will not have the blessing of the Church, but a local activist organizing the event said the wedding is a civil act that would not be affected by the Church’s position. Robert Bank, executive vice president of American Jewish World Service, wrote this week that LGBT rights activists in th…

Conservative French Catholics a ‘Rightwing Patriarchal Bunch’?; Indonesian Prez Decries Anti-LGBT Discrimination; Romanian Prez Warns Against ‘Religious Fanaticism’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, bisexual or lesbian, a higher proportion than in the other main parties. Mexico: More pro- and anti-equality organizing In the face of growing activism by anti-LGBT religious groups, advocates of marriage equality have launched a new social media campaign, #SíAcepto. The National Front for the Family delivered more than half a million signatures opposing the presidential initiative on marriage equality and the teaching of “gender ideology.” Some…

A Queer New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…eeing more progress this year in places like England, France, Uruguay, and Mexico, in spite of institutional religious opposition. In other places, like Russia, the church and state joined forces to pass repressive legislation. Here in the states, conservative American evangelicals have strongly resisted moves by the Obama administration and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to advance LGBT equality as an internationally recognized human right. T…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ly and societal pressure, may not meet the definition of forced marriages. Mexico: Marriages Begin in Coahuila Last Saturday, same-sex couples began to marry legally in the Mexican state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. The legislature had voted to make marriage equality the law on September 1. The wife of the governor of neighboring state Durango was not to happy about the development, saying that homosexuality “is outside of what’s properly nat…