Articles about LGBT Campaigners

26 April 2013
Belize: Supreme Court set to debate anti-gay sex law next month 9 The Supreme Court in Belize will debate the country’s criminal code which outlaws same-sex sexual activity, next month.
26 April 2013
MEPs welcome European Court of Justice ruling on anti-gay Romanian football owner George Becali 7 A European Court of Justice preliminary ruling on the homophobic conduct of a football club owner in Romania has been welcomed by MEPs.
18 April 2013
Governor of Montana to sign away obsolete gay sex ban 3 Governor of Montana, Steve Bullock, will sign into law a bill that decriminalises gay sex, 16 years after the state’s Supreme Court ruled it to be unconstitutional.
12 April 2013
French Senate backs same-sex marriage bill 22 French lawmakers have approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.
11 April 2013
France: Anti-gay Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim quits over plagiarism row 7 France’s Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, who has written essays against equal marriage, has resigned in a plagiarism row.
11 April 2013
Anti-homophobia and transphobia protest takes places in Paris 9 LGBT campaigners in France have protested over the fear that homophobia and transphobia is on the rise in the country.
10 April 2013
Iceland PM asked to meet with gay rights activists in Chinese visit 2 Iceland’s Johanna Sigurdardottir, the world’s first openly gay prime minister, has been asked to meet with the parents of gay children in next week's visit to China.
2 April 2013
Comment: Equal marriage campaigners should rein in their egos and go back to the grassroots 19 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Chris Ward says equal marriage campaigners should focus on convincing neighbours and their local MPs to support the measure with traditional lobbying methods – rather than relying on online activism.
21 March 2013
Kent: LGBT campaigners take part in Archbishop of Canterbury enthronement protest 6 Several LGBT campaigners have taken part in a demonstration outside Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, amid the enthronement of Justin Welby as Archbishop of Canterbury.
13 March 2013
UK: Protest planned outside Home Office following death of lesbian Ugandan asylum seeker 53 Campaigners are blaming the UK Border Agency for deporting an asylum seeker who has reportedly died in Uganda after she claimed she was at risk of homophobic persecution.
8 March 2013
Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai accused of ‘hate speech’ by gay rights group 11 Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai has been criticised for denouncing homosexuality and reportedly saying marriage “should be between a man and a woman.”
8 March 2013
Canadian Government provides funding to Uganda’s embattled LGBT campaigners 7 A leading Canadian newspaper has revealed that Canada is quietly supporting the efforts of LGBT Ugandans in their fight against the country’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
14 February 2013
37 US Senators urge President Obama to outlaw homophobic discrimination by federal contractors + President Obama is under pressure to issue an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT employees.
12 February 2013
UK: Same-sex marriage bill to face scrutiny from Commons committee by MPs with mixed views on equality 24 The Public Bill Committee of the House of Commons – made up of MPs who both have spoken against and in favour of LGBT equality – begins the task of scrutinising the government’s equal marriage bill this afternoon.

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