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

By Peter Montgomery

…s today referred to as Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) jurisprudence in international law… Before the Yogyakarta Principles were formulated, the only concept known to international law was sexual orientation. Right from the Toonen decision of the Human Rights Committee in 1991 to the aborted Brazil resolution at the Human Rights Council in 2003 the language used was sexual orientation. The Experts at Yogyakarta took the legal equival…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…eterosexual marriages so could not jeopardize them.” Davos: LGBT Events at World Economic Forum The Human Rights Campaign is teaming up with donors Paul Singer and Dan Loeb to host two LGBT-related events at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. Among the participants will be Masha Gessen, the journalist we wrote about last week who is leaving Russia under threat of losing her children to proposed laws targeting gay parents. HRC’s internati…

Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications

By Mary Barker

…concern prevailed. The brethren expressed considerable unease about a destructive bias in the news concerning Islam and deemed it imperative that the Mormon faithful be sensitive to Muslims and properly educated as to their beliefs. These aspects of the Mormon Leaks videos resonate with my own grassroots experience of the faith as an earnest community that seeks to be of service, and especially to be kind. While this may seem to clash with positi…

Lila Rose and the Right Resurrect Malicious Child Predator Myth Putting LGBTQ People in Even Greater Danger

By R.L. Stollar

…mpaign employed the mantra, “Homosexuals cannot reproduce, so they must recruit. And to freshen their ranks, they must recruit the youth of America.” However, surveys and studies of those who actually abuse children demonstrate just how mistaken the link between queer people and sexual abuse is. Study after study has found that queer people do not, in fact, harm children at higher rates than other people. Instead, a very different picture emerges…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the right to be married or adopt a child. The Catholic Church praised the ruling as “wise.” China: Report exposes use of drugs, electroshock as part of ‘conversion therapy’ BBC reports on a Human Rights Watch study of forced “conversion therapy” involving drugs and electroshock treatment. France: Paris moves to create LGBT movement archive The Paris city council is planning to open an archive to “preserve documentation of the LGBT movement in Fra…

Pro-Gay Christians Breaking Out

By Peter Montgomery

…for you Kevin, if you call yourself a Christian, why don’t you believe the words of Jesus in the Bible?” Rudd responds: Well, mate, if I was gonna have that view, the Bible also says that slavery is a natural condition. Because St. Paul says in the New Testament, slaves be obedient to your masters… I mean, for goodness’ sake, the human condition and social conditions change. What is the fundamental principal of the New Testament? It is one of univ…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…it. A social media campaign using the hashtag #WeNeedToTalk to promote the World Youth Forum being held in Egypt November 4-10 was hijacked by activists to draw attention to the country’s crackdown on LGBT people and on civil society in general: The conference’s organizers had hoped the hashtag would encourage interaction among the participants ahead of the forum and promote Egypt as a safe tourist destination. Instead, the activists posted images…

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

…it, the transgender community and allies may have to gear up for a long struggle.” In other news, the Central Board of Film Certification “has refused to certify for public exhibition” a film about the lives of two gay men and a woman in Kerala. More from The News Minute: The board has stated that the film is “ridiculing, insulting and humiliating Hindu religion, in particular portraying Hindu Gods in poor light”. Prathibha A, the regional office…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s rules against anti-gay propaganda law The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda law” was a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, saying the law had been used to violate freedom of expression. The ruling was rejected by the Russian government; BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder notes that “Russia has repeatedly thumbed its nose at the ECHR’s authority in recent years, including adopting legislation in 2015 a…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…vil genius to manufacture such a “Sophie’s choice.” Kendell wrote that the news was “crushing” to LGBT advocates who had been working to change the tone of the church’s approach to LGBT people: Two months ago, when I attended a conference in Utah sponsored by Affirmation, a support organization for LGBT Mormons and friends and family, I met many non-gay Mormon officials who supported their LGBT congregants. I met a lesbian couple from Seattle who…