NCLR Committee To Attend UN Meeting Against Torture
BTL STAFF San Francisco The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) announced the formation of the #BornPerfect Advisory Committee , a group of conversion [...]
Jamaican Ends Legal Challenge to Anti-Sodomy Law
BTL Staff KINGSTON, JAMAICA – Young Jamaican gay rights activist who brought a legal challenged to the Caribbean island's anti-sodomy law has withdrawn the [...]
Berlin Mayor Announces Resignation
BTL Staff BERLIN – After more than 13 years in office, Klaus Wowereit announced he will be resigning on Dec. 11 of this year. He is Berlin's first openly gay [...]
Longest Running Soap Opera Shows LGBT Support
BTL Staff ENGLAND – Members of the longest running soap opera, Coronation Street, a British soap opera about the working class residents of the self titled [...]
Queen Pardons Gay WWII Code Breaker
BTL Staff ENGLAND – The Queen of England herself, Queen Elizabeth II granted a Royal pardon for internationally acclaimed British codebreaker and computer [...]
Russia Forced To Allow Same-Sex Wedding
RUSSIA – Alina Davis, 23, and Allison Brooks, 19, were both donning wedding dresses when they walked into the Moscow registry office asking for a marriage [...]
Participants Needed For LGBT Mental Health Study
BTL Staff LONDON – Researchers at King's College London are studying how stigma and discrimination contribute to mental health issues amongst those within [...]
Harry Potter Helps Reduce Prejudice
By AJ Trager NATIONAL – Aside from defeating Lord Voldemort and restoring peace to the world, Harry Potter is also helping to reduce prejudice and bigotry [...]
Uganda Invalidates Anti-Gay Law
AP Ugandan citizens celebrate gay pride 2014 UGANDA – A Ugandan court on Friday [Aug 1] invalidated an anti-gay bill signed into law earlier this year, saying [...]
LGBT Activists Attacked In Toronto
By BTL Staff Pink News reports that LGBT rights activists were attacked and told to leave a recent Toronto event held by Rob Ford. The activists had been [...]
First Of Its Kind: New Condom May Kill HIV And HPV
BTL Staff AUSTRALIA – A pharmaceutical company out of Melbourne has designed a gel, much like spermicide, that has been found to be 99.9 percent effective at [...]
Top AIDS Researchers Killed: Update
By BTL Staff Australia – UPDATE: Previous reports that "more than 100" AIDS researchers lost their lives aboard the Malaysian flight MH17, as reported by the [...]
