Day: July 5, 2016

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UK Supreme Court to rule on transgender pension claim
The UK’s highest court has been asked to rule on a transgender person’s claim to be entitled to receive the female state pension at the age of 60.

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Soaring numbers of gay men are diagnosed with gonorrhoea and syphilis
Cases of syphilis in England have jumped 76 per cent since 2012, alarming new figures show.

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European court strikes against Hungary’s arbitrary detention of LGBT asylum seekers
Today, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Hungary’s two-month-long detention of an Iranian gay man applying for asylum is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.