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Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to stigmatize the group,” the head of Women and Marginalized Groups of AJI Indonesia, Yekthi Hesthi Murthi, told thejakartpost.com. Research indicates violations of ethics often occur when Indonesian journalists are covering controversial issues concerning the LGBT in this, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, she asserted. She added the press could be in a position to give a voice to those who are voiceless and allow them…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…auses and they called for bans on promoting and funding LGBT activities in Indonesia.” The government has also moved to ban Tumblr unless it blocks LGBT content, and the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission has released a statement discouraging radio and television broadcasters from running programs with LGBT content, reports the Jakarta Post, “as part of an effort to protect children and teenagers from exposure to their lifestyle.” Last week the go…

Country of Georgia Considers Constitutional Marriage Ban; Hindu Nationalist Leader Surprises India With Call to Decriminalize Homosexuality; No End to Anti-LGBT Propaganda Campaign in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…yet to publicly respond to López’s use of anti-gay slurs against Brewster. Indonesia: Police Announce Disruption of ‘Same-Sex Wedding’ The ongoing propaganda campaign against LGBT people by conservative religious and political figures continued this week with the announcement by police that they “thwarted” a “same-sex wedding” in rural Java. According to BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder and Rin Hindryati: Conservative politicians and religious leaders imme…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gned two years ago on a platform that prioritized respect for diversity in Indonesia, vowing to promote tolerance and restore the spirit of harmony among the country’s citizens. Although Jokowi spoke of the need to continue building positive interreligious communication and preserve tolerance in Indonesian society during the NU congress in August 2015, he has been noticeably silent since. Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Af…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…irector Graeme Reid called the proposed criminal sanctions a threat to all Indonesians, saying the court “has an important opportunity to strengthen the right to privacy and nondiscrimination in Indonesia.” The Washington Blade reported this week that the US Agency for International Development has given a multi-million-dollar grant to fight tuberculosis to Nahdlatul Ulama, a Muslim organization that, while it campaigns against Muslim extremism, h…

Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ingrum, co-director of the Center on Child Protection at the University of Indonesia, is that only about half of Indonesian couples have been legally married, meaning that millions of couples with informal and ceremonial marriages will no longer be legally able to have sex. “This law, when enforced, will immediately exclude the poor, the marginalized, people who live in remote places in the margins of public service,” she said. Mormon Church: New…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orea’s military court sentencing a gay soldier to a suspended prison term. Indonesia: anti-LGBT crackdown continues “Police in Indonesia’s most populous province plan to deploy a taskforce to investigate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activity,” report Tom Allard and Steffano Reinard in The Independent, “a move likely to fuel concerns of a widening crackdown on the community in the Muslim-majority country.” The plan was disclosed by…

Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d minority and its attackers – a most basic failure to protect, similar to Indonesia’s recent record on religious minorities.” The report is based on 70 interviews with Indonesian sexual and gender minorities, LGBT human rights activists, and other civil society representatives across Indonesia between January and June 2016. The series of anti-LGBT remarks began on January 24, when the higher education minister, Muhammad Nasir, said he wanted to b…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…ined attacks against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in Indonesia.” “We are gravely concerned that growing anti-LGBT sentiment in Indonesia and elsewhere represents a significant threat to our quest for freedom and equality,” said Midnight Poonkasetwattana, APCOM Executive Director. “These words and actions unacceptably legitimise discrimination towards LGBT in society, and undermine Indonesia and other countries’ previously sta…

Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e early this year. Now, Ali Kotarumalos reports for Associated Press that “Indonesia’s Constitutional Court is considering whether to make gay sex a crime after accepting a judicial review petition from Islamic activists.” As the story notes, “Indonesia’s image for tolerance and moderation has been tested this year by a campaign of denigration against LGBT people involving conservative politicians, mainstream Muslim groups, professional associatio…