Beams of light > Guiding lights > Support groups
User Rating: 5 / 5
A landmark judgment by India’s highest court has overturned a colonial-era law that criminalizes consensual gay sex, in a long-fought for victory for the LGBTQ community. The five-judge bench reached a unanimous decision Thursday in the capital New Delhi. Delivering his decision, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said, “The LGBTQ community has the same fundamental rights as citizens. The identity of a person is very important and we have to vanquish prejudice, embrace inclusion and ensure equal rights.” “Intimacy and privacy is a matter of choice. We have to bid adieu to stereotypes and prejudices,” he said. The court verdict is a major milestone for LGBTQ-identifying people across the country, where homosexuality remains a social taboo and gay people face endemic discrimination.
User Rating: 5 / 5
The Gay Games is a world-class sport and cultural festival organized by the LGBT community every 4 years. Everyone is welcome to participate regardless of sexual orientation, ability, gender, age or race. The Gay Games were intended, in the spirit of Tom Waddell, to build bridges between heterosexual and LGBT sports associations and to go beyond sport to give birth to an ambitious social project.
User Rating: 5 / 5
Hundreds of thousands of students, parents, teachers and their supporters took to the streets on March 24, 2018 in a mass show of force in favor of gun control and school safety. More than 800 marches across the U.S. and around the world took place in support of the main March For Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. that was organized by survivors of the Feb. 14, 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Here’s what it looks like on the ground, from London and Paris to Sao Paulo and Miami.
User Rating: 5 / 5
The Australian House of Representatives celebrates in the chamber on Thursday, December 7, 2017 after passing a long-awaited bill to legalise same-sex marriage. The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, tells the gathered MPs that it’s a day 'for love, for equality, for respect' as those in the public gallery burst into song: WE ARE AUSTRALIANS
User Rating: 5 / 5
Moments after Mr Trump was sworn in as the 45th president on Friday January 20th, 2017, he delivered a thundering speech in which he promised to improve the lives of millions of Americans. A day later, on Saturday, January 21st, 2017 throngs of women, men and children streamed into the same area where he made that pledge, in order to take a stand for gender and racial equality.
