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Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ay, in addition to struggling with an addiction to pornography. This short promo video offers an overview of their stories. By promoting these voices as representative of the entire experience within the LGBT community, even though they do not currently identify as such, the Adventist church elevates stories that portray all LGBT people as damaged, sex addicts, drug and alcohol abusers, unfaithful in relationships, and utterly lost if they do not…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that we want to [stay] in the EU and get more support from EU countries.” Chile: Civil Unions Bill Advanced by Senate A civil unions bill first introduced in 2011 was approved by the Chilean Senate this week. The civil partnerships created in the bill go by the acronym AVP. “The AVP does not weaken families, but it strengthens them because it extends protections to them,” said Álvaro Elizalde, spokesperson for President Michelle Bachelet’s govern…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for LGBT equality in the islands, turned one year old on Valentine’s Day. Chile: Government abandoning opposition to marriage equality The Washington Blade reports that the Chilean government has met to finalize a settlement agreement with an LGBT advocacy group in a lawsuit filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation in a press release it posted to its website said the governme…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ng pressured by clerics, doctors, and family members to undergo gender reassignment surgery. It’s not official government policy to force gay men or women to undergo gender reassignment but the pressure can be intense. In the 1980’s the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa allowing gender reassignment surgery – apparently after being moved by a meeting with a woman who said she was trapped in a man’s body. Shabnam- n…

ESPN Commentator says BYU Not Guilty of “Institutional Racism”

By Joanna Brooks

…mer athletes of color who had a positive experience with BYU and the Honor Code: “If Darron Smith wasn’t so hell bent on exposing BYU, the Church and the honor code office as racists, he’d find out that for every Thomas Stancil, Tico Pringle and Ray Hudson, there’s a Brandon Davies, Reno Mahe and Brian McDonald, the latter of which recovered from an alcohol-related probation, joined the Church and served a mission to Washington, DC.” Sikahema’s fu…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…t July, Lavers reports, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights asked the Chilean government to respond to a lawsuit filed on behalf of three same-sex couples who had been denied marriage licenses. Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s president-elect, is a supporter of marriage equality. South Africa: “Corrective Rape” on Rise? UK’s Independent published a story this week on violent “corrective rape” against lesbians in South Africa. The story is based on…

Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable

By Mary E. Hunt

…have the courtesy to slow down the process, despite hundreds of people in Chile signing petitions against the bishop-elect and near fisticuffs at his episcopal ordination. It may be time to alert a few deep-pocketed Chilean vineyard owners and see if there might be a little desk in Rome for Mr. Barros. But what can the rest of us who are neither deep-pocketed nor inclined to leave glean from this scene of church power run amok? I offer three thin…

Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…re elected in March 30 local elections. The report says that 40 candidates signed the protocols, vowing to protect and improve gay rights, partner with LGBT groups, and promote anti-discrimination measures regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. The protocols were prepared by the Social Policies, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation Studies Association (SPOD), a pro-equality NGO founded in 2011. Three of the four elected LGBT friendly…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…couples “most of the rights afforded to traditional marriages,” there are significant differences. Chile: Debate on marriage equality bill begins as presidential election approaches An estimated one hundred thousand LGBT equality backers marched on Saturday in a massive show of support for marriage equality legislation that will be debated in parliament beginning on Monday. Among those participating was presidential candidate Alejandro Guillier,…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…n into schools – the furore began two years ago when almost 200,000 people signed a petition in Baden-Wurttemberg, afraid schools would sexualize children by promoting gay lifestyles, and they have since followed in Bavaria and Hesse. The far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, which made gains in the regional elections this year, has also published a proposal to strip out much of the homo-trans-and bisexuality teaching in schools and i…