Texas judge still fightg to ny weddg ceremoni to gay upl | The Texas Tribune

Contents:

• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?
• WERE ANCIENT GREEKS GAY OR NOT ACRDG TO SOLON’S 9 LAWS?
• GREECE'S 1ST OPENLY GAY MISTER URG LGBTQ YOUTHS NOT TO PUT THEIR DREAMS ON HOLD
• THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’
• WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

Nearly three years after was first brought to parliament, Greek MPs are poised to pass an anti-discrimatn bill which human rights groups say still falls far short of alg wh an epimic of racist and homophobic vlence the of this week's vote, gay rights protters have taken to the streets to nounce the nservative-domated ernment's refal to extend protective rights, cludg domtic partnerships, to same-sex upl.

Rightwg MPs have risted troducg legal protectn for gay people spe an alarmg rise homophobic attacks Athens, claimg that such measur uld take Greece down a dangero path. "Wh bate at such levels, there is ncern that far om curbg hate crim, the law will allow vlence to Hatzisofia, who reprents the radil left Syriza party, the ma opposn, said was appallg that Greece had e up wh an anti-discrimatn law " name only" when more than 400 racially-motivated asslts had been rerd sce Tatsopoulos, a left-leang pennt MP, said the refal to protect gay people was an alarmg omissn. "This law, effect, allows people to thk that homosexuals this untry are send-class cizens who do not have the same rights, and that will pave the way to discrimatn through the back door.

RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?

"Internatnal nsternatn has been exacerbated by the recent surge of attacks on men and women Greece's gay muny – often by black-shirted supporters of the neo-Nazi Goln Dawn the prsure on the ernment, Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's missner for human rights, urged Greek thori to move forward wh the adoptn of wi-rangg anti-discrimatn a statement, he said: "The reported rise of homophobic attacks and the ntug racist hate crime Greece signal the urgent need to adopt and effectively implement prehensive legislatn orr to elimate tolerance, hate speech and vlence the untry. "Over the summer, assailants have not only targeted dark-skned immigrants but also appear to have sgled out gay people for attack. After six years of wherg enomic crisis, the party is the untry's third-biggt polil force spe most of s learship beg taed pre-trial ctody on charg of nng a crimal operatn that sowed terror on the streets of MPs have openly hailed Hler as "a great personaly", qutned the Holot and nounced homosexualy as "a sickns".

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978. ” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe.

” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.

WERE ANCIENT GREEKS GAY OR NOT ACRDG TO SOLON’S 9 LAWS?

Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.

GREECE'S 1ST OPENLY GAY MISTER URG LGBTQ YOUTHS NOT TO PUT THEIR DREAMS ON HOLD

The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law.

THE MYTH OF THE ANCIENT GREEK ‘GAY UTOPIA’

Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.

"The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of...

WHY THE ROMANS ARE IMPORTANT THE DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".

"It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says.

She c a Uned Natns Populatn Fund (UNFPA) manual for out-of-school youths east and southern Ai, sayg promot homosexualy and is too explic.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

"It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy".

He tried to e his office to retaliate agast Disney for admtg that gay people exist and disvered that Disney is much better at law-talk’ stuff than his merry band of bh leaguers.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Tom of books have been wrten about homosexualy ancient Greece, and how wily accepted and prevalent was mastream society. One of the misnceptns that has prevailed over the centuri wtern lerature is the misterpretatn of the ancient Greek word “perastry” as meang homosexual activi between a boy and a man.

The word ancient Greece for homosexualy was “kaidos”, a practice wily shunned and givg rise to great shame to those engaged such activy, to the gree that men ught havg sexual relatns uld be stripped of their polil rights, banished or even put to ath. If the legislatns of laws is a measure of societal will and clatns, then his laws would actually suggt that homosexualy was a shameful and immoral practice to be avoid.

To see the full list, vis]Nicholas Yatromanolakis beme the first openly gay person to serve as a Greek ernment mister this year.