LGBT activists in Swaziland are planning to hold the country’s inaugural Pride march and festival in June, and they hope it will help change anti-gay laws, hearts, and minds.
Conservative organizations in these countries have leveraged both political pressure and public sentiment—in the form of protests—to combat ratification.
100,000 people have signed a petition calling on Commonwealth countries to roll back their anti-gay laws. More than one billion people live in Commonwealth countries with colonial-era gay sex laws.
Thousands of Croat conservatives protested on Saturday against the proposed ratification of a European treaty that describes gender as a “social role,” fearing it could undermine traditional family values in the predominantly Catholic country.
Pastors, in a leaflet distributed outside Tower D, Wrightson Road, Port of Spain, said plans are afoot to legalise homosexuality next month, including removing the buggery ban, and teaching homosexuality as normal in schools.
We believe that all human rights should not be exclusively granted to only a privileged few and not be granted to LGBTQIA+ members of the society on the shallow basis of their SOGIE.
Catholic schools student leaders, religious groups and LGBT+ advocates will launch a nationwide rally in support of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Equality bill on Saturday.
"I think my biggest fear has been that people will see this as just a special situation, and they won't realize that this is going on everywhere around the country."
