All Blog Posts Tagged 'homophobia' (218)

Twenty-four-year-old bar manager Jody Dobrowski (pictured) was killed in 2005 in a homophobic attack so horrific that he could only be identified by his fingerprints.

A wildflower garden was set up in Jody’s memory but has, in recent months, become…

Nine pastors were arrested this week during New Orleans’ Southern Decadence festival for holding an anti-gay demonstration during the event. Hurricane Isaac not only did NOT pour God’s wrath upon the assembled multitudes in the city’s French Quarter, but the sun shone brilliantly on the revelers all weekend…

A homophobic pundit has said gay people have ‘no business’ being Republican, saying they undermine the ‘pure morals’ of the GOP.

American Family Association's Bryan Fischer (pictured), who supports the criminalization of homosexuality in the US, said gay right-wingers ‘undermine and subvert’…

Authorities in Zimbabwe seem to be mounting a major crackdown on gay activism. The country's main gay rights organisation, GALZ, has been the target of major police activity in the past two weeks, with over 40 members being arrested, and in the past 24 hours a major raid on its Harare headquarters by around 20 officers (some pictured on…

Cameroon is one of those countries which still has prison sentences of up to five years for men who do more than hold hands with other men, and Victor Tonye Bakot, the Catholic Archbishop of Yaoundé, the country's capital, wants to keep things that way.

In the past, he's described homosexuality as a "conspiracy against the family and…

Ironic as it may sound, Tasmania's premier Lara Giddings has pledged to enact laws allowing same sex couples to marry.

Why ironic you may ask? Homophobic Tasmania did not decriminalise homosexuality until 1997 and was the last Australian state to do so!

Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group…

"What if it were illegal for you to be you? Imagine if it were illegal to have blue eyes or be under 5ft 10ins and if breaking this law meant you could go to prison or face attack or even death?"

These are the questions asked by LGBT charity …

As LGBT people prepare to celebrate Pride tomorrow in the Bulgarian city of Sofia, a local Orthodox priest has called on Christians to throw stones.

Father Evgenii Yanakiev also called for politicians who support the parade to be thrown into the sea “with millstones around their necks”. In answer to…

I've often struggled with my intense dislike of the Salvation Army for its archaic views on gay rights along with my respect for its charitable work, but after the latest comments from the Media Relations Director of the Salvation Army Australia’s Southern Territory, Major Andrew Craib, I think singer …

Following an appearance on BBC's 'Nolan Show' in Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionist peer Ken Maginnis has said he stands firmly behind controversial on-air comments in which he referred to gay marriage as “unnatural and deviant behaviour”.

Lord Maginnis later told the …

Following my two previous posts regarding this alleged 'Man of God' and his now infamous sermon plus Anderson Cooper's excoriating interview with a member of Worley's congregation, this weekend saw more than 2,000 protesters  from all over the country to protest.

Providence Road Baptist Church Pastor…

Protestors demanding the right to hold a gay Pride parade in the Russian capital were arrested during two demonstrations yesterday.

As the activists mustered outside the city council to call on the authorities to permit them to march, Orthodox Christians attempted to break up the gathering and attacked protestors, throwing water and grabbing rainbow flags…

Following on from my blog post a few days ago concerning Pastor Worley's call to put "queers, lesbians and homosexuals" behind electrified fences and leaving them to die, Anderson Cooper of CNN interviewed a member of Worley's congregation.

Below is a video of that interview.

This woman defines ignorance. Her inability to make a coherent…

Pastor Charles Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in North Carolina proposed that gays and lesbians should be thrown behind a fence and left to die out.

Worley put it quite succinctly:

"I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers…

Earlier this month, Republican state Rep. Andy Gipson of Mississippi responded to Barack Obama’s marriage-equality announcement by  referencing Biblical commandments calling for gay men to be put to death.

On Facebook Gipson called homosexuality a “sin,” and gay marriage “horrific social policy” while…

The much revered Nelson Mandela ensured that there would be no discrimination based on race, gender and sexual identity/orientation. This was a groundbreaking constitution that came about following the many years of repression under apartheid.

Despite this, South Africa has never managed to escape the brutality…

This photo by the Spanish artist Juan Hidalgo (he's on the left) kissing his husband, has apparently been judged as inappropriate by Facebook's moderators, with the result that a page aiming to publicise a documentary project has been removed.  

The organisation behind the project -…

The President of the United Nations Human Rights Commission has received a strongly-worded letter of complaint from the Pakistan's UN Ambassador about the…

Viewed from afar, America's religious fundamentalist homophobes often seem ridiculous. And that could hardly be more true in the case of anti-gay pastor Patrick Wooden, who's been doing the rounds of sympathetic  talkshows this week with a detailed and graphic description of how gay men supposedly lose muscle tone in their nether regions through doing things he doesn't think are acceptable.

Though you and I may listen and laugh, it's worth remembering that…

Budapest will be gearing up for 2012's summer LGBT Euro Games but, guess what? Budapest's mayor István Tarlós has stated in a just released letter to Berlin's openly gay mayor that he won't be attending or even watching!

What is it with these ex-Soviet bloc leaders, mayors et al and their ingrained homophobia?

“I disassociate myself from both…