Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…
… and much more, in this week’s LGBT Global Recap.
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Adventists Cancel ‘Holy Sexuality’ Confab; Egyptian Court OKs Deportation of Gays; Mongolian Trans Activist Gives TV Interview; Global LGBT Recap
A Russian nonprofit group, the St. Petersburg-based Coming Out, celebrated April 17 International Day of…
Read MorePope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap
The Boston Globe reported this week that the U.S. State Department will appoint a special…
Read MoreChurch=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap
A new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA law school and NORC at the University…
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Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap
New Vatican Confab on ‘Complementarity’ in Marriage Before the dust had settled from the Catholic…
Read MoreInternational ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap
American Evangelicals Attend Anti-Gay Summit in Moscow We noted last week that the World Congress…
Read MoreSouth Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap
Early this month, Bard College professor Omar G. Encarnación published an op ed piece on…
Read MoreBill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya
This week’s global LGBT justice roundup, with a focus on Africa.
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Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women
Let’s be clear: half of the world’s poor are women, and the church’s effort to deprive the Catholic women among them of contraceptives, of the use of condoms that could protect them from HIV-AIDS, and of the ministry of women priests who would marry, absolve, and anoint them, is no service to them.
Read MoreWhy Did the Pope Choose Cuba?
Human rights, the role of the Church, and politics aren’t the whole story.
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