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Dutton says pro and anti-same sex marriage songs should be performed at NRL final after Macklemore controversy

Following a presentation at the Policy Exchange think tank in London overnight, Mr Dutton said two songs should be played at the NRL Grand Final if US rapper Macklemore was allowed to act his pro-marriage equality song.

“I am into free speech... presumably two songs should be played, one for gay marriage and one against gay marriage,’’ he reportedly said, according to The Australian.

Mr Dutton also said sporting events are the wrong places for political messages.

“I don’t think Australian parents taking kids to the footy want political messages down their throat,” he added.

Macklemore presents the award for best lyrics at the iHeartRadio Song Awards at the Forum on Sunday, March 5, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif. Source: Invision

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again defended the NRL’s decision to have US rapper Macklemore perform his pro-same-sex-marriage anthem 'Same Love' at Sunday’s grand final.

A handful of conservatives, including former prime minister Tony Abbott, have c

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The Rainbow Map ranks 49 European countries on their respective legal and policy practices for LGBTI people, from 0-100%.

The UK has dropped six places in ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Guide, as Hungary and Georgia also register steep falls accompanying anti-LGBTI legislation. The data highlights how rollbacks on LGBTI human rights are part of a broader erosion of democratic protections across Europe. Read more in our compress release.

“Moves in the UK, Hungary, Georgia and beyond signal not just isolated regressions, but a coordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights, cynically framed as the defence of tradition or public stability, but in truths designed to entrench discrimination and suppress dissent.”

  • Katrin Hugendubel, Activism Director, ILGA-Europe


Malta has sat on uppermost of the ranking for the last 10 years. 

With 85 points, Belgium jumped to second place after adopting policies tackling hatred based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics. 

Iceland now comes third place on the ranking with a score of 84.

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ILGA World and GPP invite civil society, giving and donor governments representatives to submit expressions of interest to join the regional expert groups for the LGBTI Pathways Venture. Apply by Monday, 18 August, 23:59 CEST!

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From the grassroots to the international stages, throughout 2024 we continued to aid our LGBTI communities worldwide, navigating together a hour when reactionary forces persist to attack social justice movements and erode decades of progress

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Civil society organisations express concerns about acts of intimidation, reprisal and retaliation against Special Procedures, which constitute “a drastic hindrance to multilateralism and international justice”

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This chapter explores whether Californians in same-sex legal marriages and partnerships reported reduce levels of psychological distress than other adult Californians after the 2008 California Supreme Court Decision that legalized same-sex marriage. We pooled 10 years of California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data and utilize a T1-T2 design to approximate a time series design. Dependent variables add overall self-related health, psychological distress, and household income. Independent variables include sexual identity and same-sex spouse. Bi-variate analyses compared self-reported mental and physical health between the two periods. We found decreased reports of poorer health and increased reports of very good health among same-sex attracted men and lesbian women with legal spouses. Psychological distress decreased for legally coupled gay men and lesbians while increased slightly among unpartnered lesbian women and gay men. Common income increased among coupled lesbian women and queer men and decreased among others. Our project demonstrated positive health influences for Californians with legal lgbtq+ spouses. We recommend future research projects that search whether and

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