Some good news round ups
Dec. 15th, 2009 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessAustria approved a bill to allow civil unions! It’s not perfect of course - and we should not settle or stop at cut-price almost marriages because that message is so destructive - but it’s a step forward.
Argentina’s woman of the year is a Trans woman congratulations Ms. Romero!
Despite some grossly homophobic campaign against her Annise Parker won the race to be mayor of Houston. Houston is now the largest US city with an openly gay mayor Double congratulations Ms. Parker.
Closer to home we have:
Lillian Ladele, the marriage registrar who wants to... uh, stop doing her job but still get paid has lost another appeal (of course, Christian organisations, full of love and money, are determined to keep funding her quest for bigotry, to deny GBLT people access to government services and to apply a religious test to government access). Thankfully, the courts are reluctant to agree that government employees should decide who has access to government services based on the prejudices of their religion - because that would be very very very very silly.
Fellow homophobe, Richard Leonard, has been evicted after making life hell for his neighbours with homophobic abuse. This is extremely important - such abuse is intolerable and unacceptable and we need to make that unequivocally clear.
Argentina’s woman of the year is a Trans woman congratulations Ms. Romero!
Despite some grossly homophobic campaign against her Annise Parker won the race to be mayor of Houston. Houston is now the largest US city with an openly gay mayor Double congratulations Ms. Parker.
Closer to home we have:
Lillian Ladele, the marriage registrar who wants to... uh, stop doing her job but still get paid has lost another appeal (of course, Christian organisations, full of love and money, are determined to keep funding her quest for bigotry, to deny GBLT people access to government services and to apply a religious test to government access). Thankfully, the courts are reluctant to agree that government employees should decide who has access to government services based on the prejudices of their religion - because that would be very very very very silly.
Fellow homophobe, Richard Leonard, has been evicted after making life hell for his neighbours with homophobic abuse. This is extremely important - such abuse is intolerable and unacceptable and we need to make that unequivocally clear.