Good news for the New Year
Jan. 2nd, 2010 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessRwanda is considering decriminalising homosexuality. Now if the religious groups can keep their mouths shut hopefully it’ll go ahead.
In Argentina Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre become the first gay couple married in South America. Congratulations to them and to the courage it took to fight for this basic justice
Marriage equality comes to the Dutch Carribean Islands step by step - it’s extremely heatening to see
Hong Kong Includes same-sex couples in its domestic violence law. One of the many problems of homophobia and legal homophobia is the protections and shelters of the law that are denied us. When your laws are homophobic it is not only hard for gay people to live and exist - but also to seek any of the normal legal recourses heterosexuals take for granted. When shit happens, we don’t always have somewhere to go and the normal services that provide help just aren’t there for us. This makes things like this small change vitally important for us
Lithuania has severely revised it’s version of Britain’s infamous “section 28” removing the homophobic clauses that criminalised “promoting homosexuality” to bring it into line with EU rules and basic common sense.
Sharon Lubinski becomes the US’ first openly GBLT Marshal be afraid phobes we’re everywhere *evil laugh*
Pakistan supreme court recognises hijras’ rights and recognition hijra is a recognised third gender which gives recognition (and, with legal recognition a much greater degree of legitimacy) to some trans people. (I hesitate to say all trans people because I think, though claim no expertise, that most trans people don’t consider themselves a third gender at all and it’s wrong to assume that. But it is still most certainly a step forwards).
New Hampshire couples ring in the new year with same-sex marriage as gay marriage became legal at 12:01am. Don’t waste a second (certainly not since rights granted are not guaranteed and grab them while you can).
Amanda Simpson becomes historic trans appointee in the US Department of Commerce as a Technical advisor in the Bureau of Industry and Security (no idea what that actually means but greater presence and acceptance is always a good thing).
In Argentina Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre become the first gay couple married in South America. Congratulations to them and to the courage it took to fight for this basic justice
Marriage equality comes to the Dutch Carribean Islands step by step - it’s extremely heatening to see
Hong Kong Includes same-sex couples in its domestic violence law. One of the many problems of homophobia and legal homophobia is the protections and shelters of the law that are denied us. When your laws are homophobic it is not only hard for gay people to live and exist - but also to seek any of the normal legal recourses heterosexuals take for granted. When shit happens, we don’t always have somewhere to go and the normal services that provide help just aren’t there for us. This makes things like this small change vitally important for us
Lithuania has severely revised it’s version of Britain’s infamous “section 28” removing the homophobic clauses that criminalised “promoting homosexuality” to bring it into line with EU rules and basic common sense.
Sharon Lubinski becomes the US’ first openly GBLT Marshal be afraid phobes we’re everywhere *evil laugh*
Pakistan supreme court recognises hijras’ rights and recognition hijra is a recognised third gender which gives recognition (and, with legal recognition a much greater degree of legitimacy) to some trans people. (I hesitate to say all trans people because I think, though claim no expertise, that most trans people don’t consider themselves a third gender at all and it’s wrong to assume that. But it is still most certainly a step forwards).
New Hampshire couples ring in the new year with same-sex marriage as gay marriage became legal at 12:01am. Don’t waste a second (certainly not since rights granted are not guaranteed and grab them while you can).
Amanda Simpson becomes historic trans appointee in the US Department of Commerce as a Technical advisor in the Bureau of Industry and Security (no idea what that actually means but greater presence and acceptance is always a good thing).