International News
International News
Mexico City Applies Same-Sex Marriage Law
Written by BBC News Monday, 08 March 2010 08:22
Despite the move in the capital, a gay marriage law at a federal level in Mexico remains unlikely.
Judith Vazquez, pictured at left with her partner, Lil-kin Castaneda, says: "Our real battle is with our people in Mexico... Now we will have to leave our symbolic closet because we will be [considered] citizens and we have to go out to live in freedom."
Ugandan Landslide a Message from God?
Written by Candace Chellew-Hodge Thursday, 04 March 2010 07:12
The causes of disasters are natural, not supernatural.
If we listen to some religious leaders, natural disasters don’t just happen—there is a supernatural reason for them. In short, God is angry, and natural disasters are God’s way of helping us to see the light and repent, repent, repent, before it’s too late. (Well, for those who survived the hurricane, or flood, or earthquake, anyway. For those who didn’t, it’s presumably, already too late.)
Gordon Brown Calls On America To Repeal DADT, Calls UK LGBT Soldiers ‘The Pride Of Our Country’
Written by Amanda Terkel Friday, 26 February 2010 07:39
As conservatives in the United States try to argue that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) would lead to all sorts of horrors like an increase in “body art,” natural disasters, and a reinstatement of the draft, British citizens are serving comfortably alongside openly gay men and women. Yesterday at a reception at Number 10 Downing Street to celebrate February’s LGBT History Month, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown underscored the country’s more progressive position:
Gay Pride Flows At Olympics
Written by Clare Ogilvie Wednesday, 17 February 2010 08:02
It shouldn't come as a surprise that cities as gay-positive as Vancouver and Whistler would extend that attitude to hosting the Games.
The two communities are the first Olympic hosts to have specific Pride Houses to welcome gay and lesbian athletes and tourists and educate Olympic visitors about diversity.
Evo Morales launches 'Coca Colla'
Written by UK Telegraph Monday, 15 February 2010 06:30
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president and known for chewing coca leaves at UN meetings, has launched a drink featuring the leaf called "Coca Colla".
Intended to rival its more famous US cousin the fizzy drink is at the centre of a plan coca growers from Chapare in central Bolivia submitted to the government last week to boost coca production.
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