In another blow to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Hungary, on July 13, the Hungarian ernment proposed a bill that exclus transgenr women om a women-only pensn scheme. The bill is expected to go to parliament September.
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LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
5 ln for rejectg a social studi textbook that clus material on the late gay polician Harvey Milk. The textbooks themselv do not mentn Milk—California’s first openly gay elected official, who was assassated by a lleague 1978—but supplemental materials for teachers do.
“I fd the cln of sexually based topics and the glorifitn of a known pedophile, who happened to be an advote for gay rights, to 10-year-olds morally reprehensible and appropriate, ” he said. As the East Bay Tim noted, out thor and journalist Randy Shilts’s 2008 bgraphy of Milk, The Mayor of Castro Street, tails the gay rights in’s relatnship wh Jack McKley. “Not only uld [board members’] statements [about Milk] reflect that the cisn was motivated by a sire to erase om the history tght to stunts the ntributns of a proment and rpected gay rights activist and lear, but they also suggt that the Board’s actn may have been tated by discrimatory anim, ” the letter read, acrdg to the East Bay Tim.