Human Rights
Thanks to Italy’s progression as a modern European state, the Vatican is finding itself in a little bit of bother. With Italy strongly supporting the recent UN resolution against imprisonment, torture and execution of LGBT people and the Vatican being as bigoted and reactionary as ever and disagreeing with it, the Vatican needs to find [...]
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I’ve avoided saying something about the pope’s statement on gender and the importance of saving humankind from of it largely since the speech is so vague that there are a thousand ways to interpret it. I honestly don’t know what the pope meant to say. I have my fears about what he meant, though, and [...]
I grew up quite aware of the GLB space. I was hiding a horrible truth from my family: I was attracted to both men and women. I was hiding from (or fighting with) a more horrible truth when it came to myself: I had always known I was female whether the rest of the world [...]
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Poland is one of the most openly homophobic and transphobic countries of Europe, going so far that Lech Kaczyński, the current President, stating during a visit to Ireland that homosexuality would lead to the eventual destruction of the human race. Not surprisingly, he and several other homophobic politicians (including his twin brother, Jarosław Kaczyński, the [...]
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Today is the day reserved to remember all those transgendered people who have been killed just because of who they are. This is the list of all those who died this year up to today. Between now and the end of the year, you can expect another 3-4 to be killed. Note that this list [...]
I came across this story on a forum I read: Some Abortion Foes Shifting Focus and was pleasantly surprised by the first couple of paragraphs: Frustrated by the failure to overturn Roe v. Wade, a growing number of antiabortion pastors, conservative academics and activists are setting aside efforts to outlaw abortion and instead are focusing [...]
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As a half-Brit who has lived abroad for the majority of my life, I have a strange relationship with Britain, almost looking over the fence in bemusement and enjoying the show! One of the things which I like a great deal about Britain is that it is generally quite a bit more LGBT tolerant than [...]
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