The Lesbian News Stack 2010 - March 31st

By maxime68 on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 15:48

The 'Sweden's Young Muslims' conference which takes place this Easter weekend, invited an Imam as speaker who is widely known as a gay-hater. When confronted by RFSL about this invitation they claimed to not have known about his reputation and that it was too late to revoke his invitation as this would upset the conference’s schedule!

Switzerland

If you plan on participating in Switzerland’s first national LGBT youth conference, you should know that the deadline for application is next Monday, April 5th. The conference itself is scheduled April 24th in Berne. More details next week.

Argentina / Spain

A Spanish woman who was married to an Argentine women in Canada in 2008 is now facing expulsion after the couple moved back to Argentina. When the Spaniard applied for recognition of her marriage in order to receive a residence permit, the request was denied on the grounds that gay marriage was not legal in Argentina despite several court rulings saying that it was unconstitutional to ban same-sex unions.

UK clergy members fear that they might be sued if they refuse to marry same-sex couples and insist that their special status will be written into corresponding bills.

A nursery manager who was reported by her colleagues over cruelty directed at babies and small children now claims that she has been the victim of a homophobic campaign initiated by her colleagues when they found out that she is a lesbian.

The article doesn’t mention if that was her excuse for shaking and slapping babies or if she wants us to think that her colleagues invented these charges against her. The case is still at court, eurOut will keep you updated.

A Conservative councillor who thought it was smart of him to make funny comments on his Facebook-page, had to learn the hard way that there’s no “erase” on the internet. As the offending comments have been deleted – not without some smart persons making screenshots before that – newspaper articles are full of “supposed to”, “allegedly” etc. Fact is that he wrote about a group of gay campaigners who were distributing leaflets in his neighborhood for UK’s only out lesbian MP, Angela Eagle (Labour). Angela Eagle wrote a letter of complaint to the leader of the Conservatives, David Cameron. By the way, the councillor had been with Labour many years and switched to the Conservatives not that long ago.

Councillor Knowles has been suspended until the events have been investigated.

Hungary

Right on time before the elections next month the Hungarian Constitutional Court announced their answer to various petitions claiming that the civil union law introduced last summer was unlawful. The answer is that the law is completely in line with Hungarian constitution requirements.

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