Republicans vote to make it legal nationwide to ban gays & lesbians from adopting

• Released Date: 12-Jul-2018

The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday passed an amendment allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ families the ability to adopt a child based on religious objection.

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Israeli Parliament refuses to change law that bans gays & lesbians from surrogacy

• Released Date: 11-Jul-2018

The Israeli Parliament (The Knesset) approved an amendment to the Israeli Law on Surrogacy today, but kept a portion that stipulates same-sex couples are not be eligible for surrogacy services provided by the Israeli healthcare system.

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India same-sex relations: Will top court decriminalise gay sex?

• Released Date: 11-Jul-2018

Activists say the law banning homosexuality is used to intimidate, blackmail and extort money from gay people.

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Hawaii’s Supreme Court rejects religious excuse for discrimination against lesbians

• Released Date: 11-Jul-2018

A lesbian couple tried to stay at the Aloha B&B in 2007, but the owner told them that homosexuality was “detestable” and that two women sharing a bed would have “defiled the land.”

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India signals support for legalizing gay sex

• Released Date: 11-Jul-2018

The government of India said today it would not stand in the way of the nation’s Supreme Court in its deliberations over whether or not to legalize same-sex relationships.

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India’s supreme court begins hearing on decriminalising gay sex

• Released Date: 10-Jul-2018

The country bans homosexual activity as “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” under Section 377 of the penal code, which was introduced in 1862 as a direct result of colonisation.

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Is a contitutional amendent the route to LGBTQ equality we should be fighting for?

• Released Date: 08-Jul-2018

It was a bittersweet Fourth of July for many LGBTQ Americans. Even as we watched the spectacle of fireworks celebrating America’s independence, many of us couldn’t help but envision so many of our hard-fought, recently-won gains toward equality going

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How same-sex spousal visa ruling will affect other cases in Hong Kong including gay civil servant Angus Leung’s appeal

• Released Date: 06-Jul-2018

A landmark ruling by Hong Kong’s top court allowing a lesbian expatriate couple to obtain a dependant visa may not help a gay civil servant who is appealing a decision to deny his partner spousal welfare, legal experts said on Thursday.

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Giant step forward for equality’ in Hong Kong as same-sex couples win right to spousal visas in Court of Final Appeal

• Released Date: 05-Jul-2018

Hong Kong’s top court handed down a landmark ruling in favour of a lesbian expatriate on Wednesday, requiring immigration authorities to grant same-sex partners spousal visas previously available only to heterosexual couples.

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SC to start hearings in Section 377 case from July 10

• Released Date: 05-Jul-2018

A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court will start hearings in Section 377 case from Tuesday July 10. The listing was published on the Supreme Court website. The Supreme Court on May 17 had issued a notice to the Centre seeking its reply on a plea b

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Ecuadorian Court Rules for Marriage Equality

• Released Date: 05-Jul-2018

A court in Ecuador has ruled that the nation’s ban on same-sex marriage is illegal. Two judges in the Family, Women, Children and Adolescents Court made that finding last week, Gay Star News reports. In two cases brought by same-sex couples who had

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France has no reason to bar lesbians from IVF, top court advises

• Released Date: 05-Jul-2018

PARIS (Reuters) - There are no legal reasons not to give single women and lesbian couples access to medically-assisted reproduction, the top state advisory body on judicial matters will tell the French government, Le Figaro reported on Thursday.

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