NewsWrap for the week ending July 25, 2015
SUMMARY
We're Human, It's a Right - The European Court of Human Rights decides for the first time that same-gender couples are entitled to some form of legal recognition …
Inviolable Identity - Italy’s highest court rules and the lower house of the Polish parliament decides that a trans-person can change their legal gender without having reassignment surgery …
Marry Us! - Taiwan’s capital city of Taipei petitions the island’s high court to open civil marriage to same-gender couples …
New Boss, Old Boss, Etc. - Nigeria’s new president Muhammadu Buhari rejects anti-LGBT law reform during a state visit to the U.S. …
Bringing It Home - President Barack Obama pushes LGBT rights in Kenya and Ethiopia …
The Vote's On You - the Texas state Supreme Court orders the city of Houston to put its 2014 City Council-enacted LGBT anti-bias ordinance to a public vote …
Over the Rainbow - a Saudi Arabian educator and his school apparently violate Islamic “anti-rainbow” ideology …
Labels: bisexual, Ethiopia, European Court of Human Rights, gay, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, Italy, Kenya, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, Nigeria, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, transgender, transsexual
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