Stories about LGBTQ+ from December, 2006
The Saudi Blogosphere this Past Week
Sleeping blogs, zombie computers, Saudi driving culture, Saddam Hussein's hanging, Arabic MTV, Saudi lesbian bloggers, Christmas, and more in this week's roundup. Let's get this started… Relating to the demise of the blogging trend, mentioned in last week's roundup, Ahmad published a very interesting post about Saudi “sleeping blogs.” The...
Colombia: Lack of quorum sinks same-sex partnership bill
“So the bill was actually brought to the floor for a vote but some cowardly legislators jumped up and left their seats. Incredibly disappointing if not necessarily surprising.” So says Andres Duque who has been covering the proposed legislation to grant legal privileges to same-sex partnerships. The bill died last...
Serbia, USA: What Serbs Think About America
In his blog post called “America is shaking”, Neven Andjelic shares his opinion on the United States (SRP): This big country is shaking. A number of events have caused the current condition. None of them has anything to do with my arrival to Berkley four months ago when I first...
Colombia: “Same-sex partnership rights? Not so fast…”
Andres Duque offers both a short and long explanation to what is happening and not happening with Colombia's same-sex partnership legislation.
Nigeria: Same Sex Marriage Bill
Black Looks writes about the Same Sex Marriage Bill in Nigeria, which would make it illegal to press for LGBT rights and recognition in the country.
Bermuda: Human Rights Commission
IMHO.bm reflects on the Yin and Yang of Bermuda's Human Rights Commission.
Colombia: El Tiempo forecasts passage of “gay law”
According to Andres Duque: “over the weekend, El Tiempo, the leading Colombian editorial newspaper, predicted that the bill would not only survive tomorrow's House of Representatives vote but also pass the next hurdle when it's sent for final review by a special commission of the House. That would send it...
Hong Kong: Social forum
Hong Kong civil society is having its first social forum this week, a series of pre-conference citizen reports about grassroots workers conditions, migrant domestic workers (zh), gay and lesbian movement (zh), corprate social responsibility issues (zh), etc can be found online at inmediahk.net (zh).
