This week saw huge developments! A TV station in Bangladesh hired the country’s first transgender news anchor, thousands attended LGBT Mardi Gras in Australia, and hundreds of Tunisians turned up to demand the release of a jailed LGBT rights activist.
Further, a Delhi High Court in India granted protections to a lesbian woman married against her will, there have been 13,134 equal marriages in Mexico City since its legalization eleven years ago, and Cambridge, Massachusetts became the second city in the United States to legalize polyamorous domestic partnerships.
Unfortunately with all this good news, we also saw that China has proposed teaching masculinity to boys as the state is alarmed by changing gender roles, Panama’s president is on the brink of signing a bill that would ban same-sex couples from adopting, LGBT+ refugees in Kenyan refugee camp continue to viciously attacked, and an MP in Ghana is planning a law criminalizing the promotion of LGBT+ rights.
We must continue to fight week after week policy by policy to ensure that our rights and freedoms are honored and that we have the ability to live a life of joy, freedom, and opportunity.
Global Queer News is an initiative of The Global Center’s Media Unit. Each week, we gather the top seven queer stories from around the world and synthesize them for your knowledge and action.
