Gay marriage has been firmly in the spotlight recently, but in many parts of the world the LGBT community is still persecuted. In Mongolia, there is a brave transgender activist who is standing up for his community’s rights.
Friday, the 22nd of May 2015 was a momentous day in the history of my country. With the eyes of the world watching, Ireland became the first nation on earth to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote. A small island that had for centuries been held within the moralistic shackles of the Catholic Church and where homosexuality was a crime up until 1992, almost 70% of the Irish population made the decision to embrace fairness and equality by voting “yes”. Labelled in the run-up to the referendum as “the civil rights issue of a generation”, the overwhelming result was viewed by many as a powerful statement of acceptance towards a section of the population that had been oppressed for so long.
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Source:http://www.postpravdamagazine.com/yes-we-khaan/
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