Our View: Time for legal recognition of gender identity
IT’S barely been 20 years since homosexuality was considered a crime in Cyprus and though the legislation was effectively a dead letter law, the stigma...
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North Carolina faces Monday deadline on US challenge to bathroom law
By Julia Harte North Carolina officials say they will respond by Monday to the US government’s challenge to a controversial law on public restroom access...
Battle over North Carolina transgender law intensifies
By Marti Maguire Thousands of people flocked to North Carolina’s capital on Monday to show both support and disdain for a law that has thrust...
Gay rights issue resolved, New York mayor joins in St. Patrick’s parade
By Marcus E. Howard New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ended his two-year boycott of the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade on Thursday, joining...
First gay marriages take place in Ireland after landmark vote
Richard Dowling and Cormac Gollogly have been together for 12 years, engaged for five, and on Tuesday were finally able to marry when they became...
Holy Synod ‘cannot excuse homosexuality’
By Constantinos Psillides While the Church neither wants nor has power to enforce its views on people, “it cannot accept two people living together outside...
Civil partnerships bill to be discussed behind closed doors
By Constantinos Psillides The first discussion of the civil partnership bill at parliament will be held behind closed doors, House Legal Affairs chairman Soteris Sampson...
Gay pride parade held in Nicosia
By Angelos Anastasiou Hundreds of people flocked to the 2nd annual Gay Pride parade in down-town Nicosia on Saturday, with prominent members of local leadership...
LGBT+ rights: a society transforming itself
By Antonia Frangou The second Cyprus Pride is happening. The religious interference wasn’t enough to discourage the Cypriot LGBT+ movement from demanding basic human rights....
House votes to criminalise homophobia
By Elias Hazou PARLIAMENT on Thursday amended the penal code, making it a crime to engage in unacceptable behaviour and violence against people based on...
New law will offer LGBT protection
PARLIAMENT is expected on Thursday to criminalise unacceptable behaviour and violence against people based on their sexual orientation. Chairman of the House Legal Affairs Committee...
A long way to go on LGBT rights
By Jean Christou Just as the possibility of civil partnerships moves closer, and the island is due to see its second LGBT pride parade next...
An easy target: Homophobia for political ends
By Graeme Reid Nigeria’s lively civil society is not known for consensus. So it is striking that every organization, interviewed by Human Rights Watch seems...
LGBT community welcome report blasting police
By Constantinos Psillides Accept-LGBT head Costas Gavrielides has welcomed a report by the ombudsman blasting police for taking down a photo exhibition featuring naked men,...
Flashmob highlights LGBT rights
Shoppers and strollers in the main pedestrianised streets of Old Nicosia bore witness to a flash mob on Saturday, organised by a group of European...
US embassy to fly rainbow flag
The US embassy in Nicosia will mark International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), by flying the rainbow flag at the Embassy building in Engomi...
Honour for activist who battled two decades for gay rights
By Stefanos Evripidou Gay activist Alecos Modinos, 81, was honoured last night at a special ceremony in Nicosia for his pioneering work in safeguarding the...
Civil partnership bill will go ahead
By Constantinos Psillides INTERIOR MINISTER Socratis Hasikos has said that government is not backing down on a civil partnership bill currently being drafted and that...
