A gay San Francisco police officer will receive a $225,000 settlement in his lawsuit alleging discrimination and harassment by his colleagues. The city’s Board of Supervisors gave final approval February 8 to the settlement with Officer Brendan Mannix, according to The Bay Area Reporter. Mannix filed his suit in 2018 in San Francisco Superior Court. He claimed that at the …
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Life Sentence for Radical Islamic Stabber of The Homosexual Couple
A radical Islamist Syrian citizen who stabbed a homosexual couple and killed one of them in Dresden, Germany, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The court has also blocked the early release of the defendant. Abdullah A., who stabbed a same-sex couple and killed one in Dresden, Germany, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Dresden State Supreme Court found the …
Read More »LGBT Rights in China, Latvia and in The World
Latvian human rights activists condemn homophobia in China, Latvia and the world The issue of human rights of LGBT persons is like a hot potato – hard to spit it out, but also hard to swallow. Despite majority of the public having nothing against the LGBT community, people are afraid to allow them to have the same human rights everyone …
Read More »Nana Akufo-Addo: Marriage Equality won’t be Legalized in Ghana
Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that same-sex marriage will not be legalized in Ghana under his presidency. Speaking at St. Micheal and All Angels Cathedral in Asante Mampong during the installation of the Second Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Ghana, the President said he won’t legalize same-sex marriage in the country. “For same-sex marriage to be …
Read More »Americans Identifying as LGBTI+ Increased
According to a recent survey from the Gallup research firm, 5.6 percent of Americans are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex people. This significant increase, which means about 18 million people, is attributed to the greater acceptance of LGBTI+ individuals in the society. While this rate was 4.5 percent in Gallup’s 2017 survey, the result from the 2020 survey indicates …
Read More »Acceptance of Homosexuality is Increasing
According to a study conducted in the USA, the tendency of homosexuality to be accepted in societies has increased worldwide. Turkey showed differences in acceptance rates by 25 percent Trends countries. According to the survey results announced by the US-based Pew research company, more and more people around the world are of the opinion that homosexuality should be accepted more. …
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