Articles by Edmund Broch

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3 April 2012
Afghanistan: US military investigates soldier raising gay pride flag 41 The US military has begun formal investigations into a series of three photographs that purport to show a soldier raising a rainbow flag, signifying gay pride, allegedly at a base in Afghanistan.
3 April 2012
David Cameron attempts to conciliate Christians over marriage equality 77 The Prime Minister David Cameron attempted today to reassure Christian groups that there were no threats to religious beliefs in extending civil marriage to same-sex couples, during an Easter reception at Downing Street.
3 April 2012
Civil Partnership comes into effect in Jersey 12 A law allowing same-sex couples to have civil partnerships, thereby giving them legal recognition and adoption rights similar to heterosexual couples, has come into force in Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands.
2 April 2012
Australia: Poor mental health among LGBT people 31 Almost 80 per cent of LGBT Australians have suffered from intense anxiety in the past year alone, according to a new survey released today.
2 April 2012
Anchorage set to vote on Proposition 5 8 Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, is set to vote tomorrow on Proposition 5, which would, if approved by the voters, outlaw discrimination in employment and housing against gay men and lesbians, and in addition, extend protections to transgender people.
2 April 2012
Gay couples file suit against DOMA in New York 5 Five married couples, wherein one partner had a non-US nationality, have filed suit in New York today against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), arguing that it denies gay men and lesbians the right for permanent residence, as it is available to heterosexual couples, thereby violating equal protection under the constitution.
2 April 2012
Austria: Partnered gay man allowed to serve in a Catholic parish council 16 A gay man in registered domestic partnership has been allowed by an Austrian Cardinal to serve on a local parish council, in a decision that overrules an earlier ban on doing so.
2 April 2012
Comment: What is ‘gay’? 89 As we abandon terms like 'gay marriage,' and seek greater equality and assimilation in society, Edmund Broch asks a question that is all the more fundamental.
24 March 2012
India’s attorney-general blames Victorian Britain for anti-gay laws 77 In an apparent change of heart from the position it adopted three years ago, the Indian government has said that homosexuality was tolerated in pre-colonial India, and it was only the British who imposed their Victorian values of morality on what was a largely liberal land.
23 March 2012
Madonna may be arrested in St Petersburg 41 The author of the St Petersburg anti-gay bill has said that he would want Madonna charged under that law, should she speak out against it during her forthcoming concert in the city.
22 March 2012
Madonna pledges to defy St Petersburg anti-gay law 43 With only two days to go before the St Petersburg anti-gay law comes into effect, Madonna has vowed to defy the law during her Russian tour later this year.
22 March 2012
Northern Ireland Attorney General: Ban on gay adoption will remain 37 There are no plans to retract the ban on gay and unmarried couples from adopting children in Northern Ireland, the country’s Attorney General has said.
9 March 2012
Analysis: Did the Catholic Voices poll show a Britain opposed to gay marriage? Not really 55 Can it be right that 70 percent of Britons oppose equal marriage, Edmund Broch asks, or would a single four-letter word missing from that question have changed the result?
2 July 2009
Comment: Delhi court’s decision on gay rights is only the first step 3 It took eight long years, but the verdict gay rights activists in India had long been hoping for was finally delivered by the Delhi High Court this morning.

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