银河护卫队20190312日报

银河护卫队今日早报

3月12日，植树节，星期二，第22天

【国际同志新闻】

银河护卫队20190312日报

The world’s first known flight fully staffed by LGBT+ people is due for take off from London Heathrow Airport in June 2019.

The LGBT+ pilots and cabin crew will head the one-off ‘Pride Flight’ to New York, which is the first American city to host the World Pride event next year, on June 28—the day marking 50 years since the beginning of the Stonewall riots.

@Pink news

【亚洲同志新闻】

银河护卫队20190312日报

KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 (Reuters) - A Malaysian minister has decried the presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) groups at a march celebrating International Women's Day on Saturday, calling it "a misuse of democratic space".

The statement comes amid concerns over growing persecution of the LGBT community in the Muslim-majority country, where sodomy and other same-sex acts are outlawed.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in September last year that Malaysia could not accept same-sex marriage or LGBT rights.

Mujahid Yusof Rawa, the minister in charge of religious affairs, said the government did not recognise LGBT practices as lawful.

"I am very shocked with the actions of certain parties... that misused democratic space in order to defend things that are wrong from the point of view of Islam," he said in a statement posted on his Facebook account on Saturday night.

Other groups condemning the presence of LGBT activists at the march include Parti Se-Islam Malaysia (PAS), a conservative Islamic party, and the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO), which ruled Malaysia for six decades before being toppled by Mahathir's coalition last year.

Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday calling for greater women's rights, media reported.

The rally's organisers, led by women's rights groups, said the focus on the LGBT community was a distraction from key demands, such as calls for a dignified minimum wage, a ban on child marriage, and an end to patriarchy and violence based on gender and sexual orientation.

@ILGA ASIA

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