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SALISBURY, NC — (01-07-24) — Notorious anti-gay activist Kim Davis is snubbing the federal jury order to pay $260,000 in attorney's fees to gay couple who she refused to issue a marriage license too in 2015. When the federal jury awarded David Ermold and David Moore $100,000 in their verdict back in September 2023, Davis [...]
TALLINN, ESTONIA — (01-02-24) — Estonia has become the first ex-Soviet state to legalize same-sex marriage.The amendment to Estonia’s Family Law, passed in June, took effect on January 1, 2024. Applications are expected to take between one to six months to process, with the first approvals expected to be approved by February 2. Estonia’s parliament [...]
UNITED KINGDOM — (11-15-23) — Young lesbian woman Bandy Kiki received threats of "corrective rape" after she came out as a young lesbian woman from Cameroon, where it is still a crime to be LGBT. Watch Bandy Kiki Open Up on Her Ordeal on BBC News Africa The clip was produced by Beryl Munoko and [...]
UNITED KINGDOM — (11-7-23) — After conducting a survey of 1700 lesbian, gay and bisexual subscribers to the LGB Alliance the term LGBTQ+ is considered uncomfortable. LGB Alliance subscribers and supporters on the commonplace language now used to describe them, including the use of queer, are all calling for change" LGB polled 1700 lesbian, gay [...]
JOHANNESBURG — (11-01-23) — Over 20,000 people marched through Johannesburg last Saturday to celebrate Pride 2023. The enormous crowd were seen singing, dancing and making their support clear for LGBTQ communities across Africa, where LGBTQ communities feel unsafe to express their same-sex relationships for fear of violence and prosecution. In May, Uganda introduced one of [...]