Gay rights groups have poured bottl of Co Cola down the dra a prott at Tim Square New York.
Contents:
- HUNGARIANS UPSET WH GAY COKE AD
- GAY RIGHTS GROUPS NEW YORK TARGET CO COLA
- INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
- THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
- THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
HUNGARIANS UPSET WH GAY COKE AD
<p>The Co-Cola Co has earned top sr for s support of gay rights, but still suffered protts for s sponsorship of the Sochi Olympics. What's the lson here?</p> * coke gay rights *
On the issue of gay rights, The Co-Cola Co has a sparklg rerd. Co-Cola was one of the first US pani to support the proposed Employment Non-Discrimatn Act, which would protect employe om discrimatn due to sexual orientatn, and s HR partment has fund a lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) employe associatn sce 2000.
GAY RIGHTS GROUPS NEW YORK TARGET CO COLA
* coke gay rights *
"The problem, of urse, is that Co-Cola is a sponsor of the 2014 Wter Olympics Sochi, Rsia, which has been a target for gay activists sce the Rsian ernment enacted a dranian anti-gay law July.
INDIA’S TOP URT CRIMALIZ GAY SEX LANDMARK LG
India’s Supreme Court has stck down a lonial-era law crimalizg nsensual gay sex, overturng more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislatn. * coke gay rights *
And expectatns always seem to be ratchetg the issue of gay equaly, was once enough for pani to promise not to discrimate agast gays and lbians.
Now they're asked to extend health benefs to domtic partners, to support transgenr dividuals, to back ballot measur on behalf of gay marriage and, wh the Olympics around the rner, bee advot and alli of groups, such as the Human Rights Campaign, that fight for equal treatment for LGBT people a 29 Augt letter to Olympic sponsors, Chad Griff, print of the Human Rights Campaign said the pani "have a duty to speak out clearly on LGBT equaly Rsia and around the world – a duty not simply to your brands, your employe and your ctomers, but to LGBT people everywhere". HRC is settg up a webpage to report how the sponsors al wh the ntroversy attentn is now foced on Rsia, where the new law is beg blamed for a surge anti-gay vlence, the issue of LGBT equaly is much broar.
More than 70 untri mata laws that crimalize homosexual behavr, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Weck, the print and -founr of Weck Communitns, which advis big pani – cludg Walmart and Amerin Airl – on LGBT issu, told me by email that hostily to LGBT people, particularly people of lor, is wispread.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. * coke gay rights *
The gay equaly issue has long been a lite one for big pani.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg . * coke gay rights *
Most want to quietly support their own LGBT workers, but they are wary of alienatg others, cludg those ctomers who oppose gay rights. This was the first Super Bowl ad to feature a gay fay, acrdg to GLAAD, a lbian gay, bisexual and transgenr media advocy cln of different languag sparked ments onCo-Cola's Facebook page llg the ad a disgrace and unpatrtic. Coke blanketed Budapt wh imag of upl — cludg lbians and gay men — kissg and iendly timate pos at tra statns, b stops and other parts of the cy.
A translated versn of the petn pots out that most ternatnal rporatns don't n ads wh openly gay ntent and lled Coke's mpaign a tt. An Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn survey 2017 found that more than 60% of Hungary's cizens believe that equal rights should be afford to everyone, regardls of sexual orientatn. Tomas Dombos, board member of Hatter, Hungary's olst gay rights group, told ABC News that LGBT muny lears aren't sure if the recent anti-gay rhetoric is a polil movement or the spoutg off of one homophobic lear.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
Two Che gay men bee each other's legal guardians.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
Last week, two gay Che men legally sistepped Cha's lack of legal regnn of same-sex marriage a system workaround by beg Beijg's first gay uple to bee each other's legal guardians.
Homosexualy was crimalized 1997. Cha removed homosexualy as a mental disorr 2001. Not everyone agre wh Cha legalizg same-sex marriage, much ls homosexualy.
THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
The Pew Global Attus Project found that 57% of rponnts polled a 2013 survey believed that homosexualy should not be accepted. A majory of the victims were young gay men, 18 to 25 years of age, most likely murred their hom. A trend Bogota shows that gangs target gay men as they are believed to be wealthier than straight men, reported Rters.
Gay rights groups have poured bottl of Co Cola down the dra a prott at Tim Square New are angry at the pany's sponsorship of the 2014 Wter Olympic Gam Rsia. Demonstrators claim that the soft drks giant "supports hate" by stayg silent towards Rsia's ntroversial new law on gay propaganda.
Rsian officials say petg gay athlet will not face discrimatn. India’s Supreme Court has stck down a lonial-era law crimalizg nsensual gay sex, overturng more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislatn. Thursday’s historic lg is the culmatn of a lengthy and often ght legal battle for equaly a untry where homosexualy remas taboo.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
In 2009, the Delhi High Court led that the ban on nsensual gay sex vlated fundamental rights.
In s 2013 lg, the Supreme Court said that only a “mcule actn of the untry’s populatn nstute lbians, gays, bisexuals or transgenrs” and was therefore “legally unstaable” to repeal the act.
Durg the latt heargs, lawyers reprentg more than a dozen gay and lbian Indians qutned the nstutnal basis of that earlier lg. In an terview earlier this year, lawmaker Subramanian Swamy, a proment member of the lg Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), scribed the legalizatn of gay sex as a “danger to natnal secury” and “agast Hdutva. Out of the timated 48 former Brish loni that crimalize homosexualy, 30 still have laws based on the origal lonial anti-LGBT legislatn, acrdg to Lus Mendos, -thor of the 2017 Internatnal LGBTI Associatn “State-Sponsored Homophobia” report.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
The group, named “Tst, ” provis unselg, support and sexual health servic to gay and transgenr persons. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.
“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.
THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.
“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.
The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.