Equality Australia’s launch comes in the wake of anti-marriage equality campaign organisation Marriage Alliance changing tack to become anti-trans lobby group Binary Australia.
“ANZ agrees to the priorities set out in the Darlington Statement and echoes the calls by the intersex human rights movement to engage across legal, health, education, awareness and employment issues”
Pride in Diversity piloted a series of regional programs to bring member organisations’ employees together with smaller business, local governments, sporting groups, and LGBTI community organisations.
The result has no direct legal bearing on a 2017 court ruling which gave legislators two years to amend laws to allow same-sex couples to marry, but advocates say the public opposition is a blow to the campaign.
The Australian Christian Lobby is encouraging school students to sign an open letter to Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten calling for religious exemptions to be preserved in the Sex Discrimination Act.
“The thing is, there are bodies piled up out the back of conversion therapy camps, because of the list of kids who have committed suicide.”
Human Rights Watch said that police in West Sumatra trawled Facebook and found images of two of the women hugging and kissing.
The inquiry was announced in September to investigate LGBTI hate crimes which took place between 1970 and 2010.
“It is extremely regrettable that Tanzania has chosen to take such a dangerous path in its handling of an already marginalized group of people”
Documents and decrees reviewed by HRW suggest lists of allegedly gay and bisexual men could be handed over to authorities.
