Aimee Stephens, Transgender Plaintiff in Supreme Court Case, Dies at 59

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 24, no. 4, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Special Section: Gender, Sexuality and Transitional Justice
  • Katherine Fobear & Erin Baines, Pushing the conversation forward: the intersections of sexuality and gender identity in transitional justice
  • Katie McQuaid, ‘There is violence across, in all arenas’: listening to stories of violence amongst sexual minority refugees in Uganda
  • Rocky James, An evolution in queer indigenous oral histories through the Canada Indian residential school settlement agreement
  • John Nagle, Frictional encounters in postwar human rights: an analysis of LGBTQI movement activism in Lebanon
  • Nicole Maier, Queering Colombia’s peace process: a case study of LGBTI inclusion

New Article: Nicola Barker, ‘Marry in Haste …’: The (Partial) Abolition of Same-sex Marriage in Bermuda

The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 20, no. 1, March 2020) is out.

Australia: A 2018 police review of 88 suspicious deaths between 1976 and 2000 revealed 27 men were probably murdered because of their homosexuality, with cases peaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s – due to police inactivity first arrest only now

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/12/man-arrested-1988-death-scott-johnson-manly-sydney-north-head

Madagascar: Woman detained because of discriminatory laws criminalizing same-sex relationships with persons below 21 (instead of 14 for opposite sex relationships)

Madagascar: Woman detained because of discriminatory laws: Domoina Ranabosoa

Brazilian Supreme Court lifts restrictions on gay and bisexual men giving blood

Supreme court decision hailed as victory for LGBT community

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/09/brazil-court-ends-restrictions-gay-bisexual-men-give-blood

Male Rape Victims Confront the Bosnian War’s Last Taboo

https://balkaninsight.com/2020/04/24/male-rape-victims-confront-the-bosnian-wars-last-taboo/

Germany passes law banning ‘gay conversion therapy’ for minors

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52585162

Ireland: Gay man awarded thousands after being forced to endure ‘f****ts, fairies and Grindr’ slurs from born again Christian colleague

As world leaders tiptoe around anti-gay blood bans, Hungary has just struck down its own almost completely