Berkeley tore it down after taking a photograph of it. Melbourne woman Alice Berkeley told BuzzFeed News she had spotted a new poster, which made similar claims, at a tram stop outside the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the CBD on Sunday morning.īuzzFeed News has chosen to blur the content of the poster. Last Monday, a single picture posted on Twitter of a different poster saying Stop The Fags went viral and attracted widespread condemnation from Australian political leaders.
It comes in the midst of a heated debate in Australia over same-sex marriage, LGBTI rights, and LGBTI people more broadly, prompted by the government's national postal survey on the issue. Peretz, a former chief rabbi in Israel’s military, assumed office in Israel’s interim government last month.A Neo-Nazi group claims to have put up shocking anti-gay posters around the Melbourne CBD over the weekend to argue against same-sex marriage. The minister’s comments about conversion therapy drew widespread condemnation and hundreds protested in Tel Aviv. In another letter to school administrators, Peretz said he “vehemently opposed” a controversial technique that seeks to convert gay men into heterosexuals after originally saying he supported it. Peretz’s comment at a Cabinet meeting was leaked to the press.
Rafi Peretz, leader of a small religious nationalist party, wrote in a letter to the head of the Jewish Agency on July 16 that his likening of marriage between Diaspora Jews and non-Jews to a “second Holocaust” was “misplaced.”
Israel’s education minister has apologized for controversial remarks about homosexual “conversion therapy” and intermarriage among Diaspora Jews that drew widespread criticism in Israel and the U.S. Israeli education minister apologizes for remarks on gays The rights group said el-Kashef underwent a forced anal exam at a government hospital that amounted to torture and sexual harassment.Įgypt has waged a sweeping crackdown on dissent in recent years, targeting political critics as well as anyone believed to be gay or lesbian. Prosecutors say they suspect she belongs to an unnamed terrorist group, a reference to the banned Muslim Brotherhood. 27 train crash in Cairo that killed at least 25 people. The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms said July 16 that Malak el-Kashef was released.Įl-Kashef was among dozens arrested over calls for demonstrations following a Feb. The pro-government Gazeta Polska weekly is now planning to distribute “LGBT-free zone” stickers to its readers.Įgypt releases trans woman after 4 months in jailĪn Egyptian rights group said authorities have released a trans woman held for more than four months in connection to a call for protests. Kaczynski’s supporters have embraced his message, with about 30 cities, mostly in the former communist country’s poorer eastern regions, adopting declarations saying they’re “free from LGBT ideology” and opposing “social engineering that’s foreign to Polish culture and natural order.” The ruling Law and Justice Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has warned that the advancement of gay rights is a “grave danger” for family life and the future of the European Union, underscoring a departure from the EU’s liberal, multicultural mainstream. Gay rights are a polarizing issue in Poland before fall general elections. Offenders will be punished, Interior Minister Elzbieta Witek said in a Twitter post on July 21. Police were also attacked with bottles and stones and one officer was wounded. Some of the 800 pride participants were spat on and kicked, footage in the local media showed.
Surveillance-camera footage is being used to identify further suspects, he said. More than 20 people were detained after an attack on participants and police at the first LGBT pride parade in Bialystok in eastern Poland.įour of the people detained are suspected of offences including threatening police officers and assault, a spokesman for the regional police headquarters told Bloomberg on July 21. More than 20 people detained for attack on LGBT parade in Poland