Posts tagged Ireland
Periodical Political Post *161
Apr 16th
Queer News
- France legalises same-sex marriage & same-sex couple adoption
- Ireland set to get referendum on legalising same-sex marriage
- New Zealand expected to give final approval to equal marriage bill
- Queer-friendly scouting organization reports massive growth
Other News
- Upside of the economic crisis: military spending declining everywhere
- Netherlands and Scandinavia best in child welfare, US among worst
- WikiLeaks cables confirm collusion between Vatican and dictators
- Men ejected from Saudi festival, deported for being too handsome
+78Periodical Political Post *138
Nov 24th
Queer News
- Moscow lawmakers reject anti-gay propaganda bill
- Irish gay parents to receive greater legal protection
- Teen arrested over anti-gay attack on another student
- Uganda drops death penalty from anti-gay bill
- Kuwait arrests two trans women in “morality campaign”
Other News
- US accused of spying on computers of French president
- Russia bans protest against “non-existent” political repressions
- America’s teen boys risk their health with fitness-obsession
- SWAT team fires semi-automatic weapons at sleeping teen
- UK movie pirates spend (way) more at the box office
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Aug 16th
Queer News
- Shooting in Baltimore leaves one gay man dead, another in a coma
- Guard shot at Christian anti-gay lobby group’s office in Washington
- Second phase of HIV vaccine trials starts in China with 150 volunteers
- Thousands march in Dublin, demand marriage equality in Ireland
- Reykjavik mayor wear drag & rides in Icelandic gay pride parade
Other News
- After British raiding threats, Ecuador grants asylum to Julian Assange
- U.S. Republican admits suppressing minority votes is Republican tactic
- Files reveal how Boy Scouts kicked out gays but covered child molesters
- Man gets killed while handcuffed in police car, cops say it was suicide
- Mutant Fukushima butterflies reveal effects of radiation after meltdown
0Periodical Political Post *92
Mar 8th
Queer News
- March for queer rights in U.S. state Mississippi shut down by police
- Death of one of Italy’s most popular singers sparks homophobia debate
- Philippines University elects trans student chairperson for the first time
- 17-year-old gay high school student suspended for wearing high heels
- Missouri school fires teacher for planning marriage to partner of 20 years
- Law maker in U.S. state of Wisconsin wants to label gay parents as child abuse
Other News
- Ireland signs Irish version of SOPA into law, kicks off new censorship regime
- UK internet providers lose battle against three-strikes copyright law in Britain
- Total surveillance: American colleges demand applicants’ Facebook passwords
- Police gave companies blacklist to keep union-friendly workers without a job
- New American e-voting system cracked and taken over in less than 48 hours
- 11-year-old kid handcuffed, taken to holding facility for being “argumentative”
0Periodical Political Post *91
Feb 29th
Queer News
- Study: Children who are gender nonconforming at greater risk of abuse
- Protesters urge St. Petersburg not to enact anti-gay “propaganda” law
- Virginia passes bill banning same-sex adoption based on “moral beliefs”
- Christian politicians in UK want law change to allow abusive preaching
- Teenage boy beaten unconscious in anti-gay attack at party last weekend
- Priest leaves woman’s funeral because it turns out her daughter is gay
Other News
- Pentagon says American citizens can be killed secretly without trial
- SOPA replacement uses child porn as excuse to spy on 99.7% of Americans
- London no safer for all its out-of-control surveillance says new report
- USA, Italy & Ireland having worse per capita government debt than Greece
- Abstinence-only sex “education” bill in Utah prohibits teaching contraception
- PayPal wants to be the moral police for eBook shops, wants erotica to be gone
0Winter is Coming
Jan 31st
And so will our beautiful Knight of Flowers. Over and over again hopefully. Only two more months till the next season of Game of Thrones! My anticipation is growing strong. Other things as well.
+1Periodical Political Post *77
Oct 31st
Queer News
- Brazil is the 3rd country in South America legalising same-sex marriage
- New left government in Denmark certain to introduce same-sex marriage
- No gay president for Ireland: David Norris concedes defeat
- Huge rally against gay discrimination in Taiwan sees 50,000 marching
- Jamaica’s laws criminalizing homosexuality get first legal challenge
- Lesbian student crowned homecoming king at local High School
- U.S. Christian university forces staff to declare heterosexuality
- Wingnut calls gay kiss in High School play forced indoctrination
Other News
- Anti-gay Boy Scouts covered up thousands of cases of child molestation
- Less than 1% of cases where Patriot Act was used were terrorism-related
- Police officer throws flash grenade into crowd trying to help injured protester
- U.S. demanding more info of Google users & removal of police brutality videos
- Colombian President says he would support worldwide legalization of softer drugs
- U.S. House of Reps copyright bill proposes national censorship of YouTube & Co.
- Fresh German police-malware uncovered; police defence revealed as lies
- U.S. Justice Department wants to lie if people use Freedom of Information Act
- Videos spark investigation of child abuse at Californian youth boot camp
0Periodical Political Post *70
Aug 9th
Queer News
- Largest Brazilian city may host a ‘Straight Pride’ day
- McDonalds trans attacker pleads guilty to hate crime charge
- Gay senator David Norris pulls out of Irish presidential race
- Colombian high court says it will legalize same-sex marriage
- UK chess federation president in trouble over gay rights shirt
- Christian schools get worst LGBT ratings in U.S. college review
- Czech president condemns other countries for defending Prague’s gay pride
Other News
- Catholic chruch child protection chief caught with 4,000 child porn pics
- The sad truth behind the severe riots in England and its context
- Greece to decriminalize drugs, mostly to save money
- Racism well and alive in some white teens, black man killed just for fun
- Censorship fail reveals music industry had spying plan for internet providers
- Japan’s conservative neoliberals say anime harms kids, push ban
- Local news try really hard to make little black kid look dangerous
- Facebook facial recognition software violates privacy laws, says Germany
- Nirvana baby penis to hot for Facebook, gets banned
Half-male, half-female butterfly hatches at Natural History Museum in London
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