Pinksixty News THURSDAY 09 FEBUARY 2012
Channel: Colin Fallesen
Date: 2012-02-09

Washington State has passed a bill FOR marriage equality with a 55 to 43 vote win. All that's left now, is for State Governor, Chris Gregoire to sign it into force, which she has already pledged to do.

The owner of the Bronx nightclub in Cape Town was found murdered at his home earlier this week. Bruno Bronn was found dead, with his hands tied together in front of him and ligature marks around his neck.

A protest at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport today, has moved from a runway into the Aeroflot terminal. The Airline denied having any gay staff, after forcing Maxim Kupreev, a gay flight attendant, into a sham marriage, after he tried to set up an LGBT staff support group.

Following a number of homophobic attacks on the island of Malta, the Justice Minister has said he may extend local hate crime laws to include gender and sexuality. Despite being an EU member, the country never changed its laws to protect queer people.

And finally, all British Premier League soccer teams have pledged to defeat homophobia and transphobia from the sport. However, a recent BBC programme highlighted the worst abuses coming from those at the top levels of management, and not from the terraces.