https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Chancellor Angela Merkel's government on Wednesday agreed a draft bill that would compensate gay soldiers who faced discrimination in the armed forces between 1955 and 2000. https://www.thelocal.de/20201125/germany-to-compensate-gay-soldiers-over-discrimination Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:08:17 +0100 germany-to-compensate-gay-soldiers-over-discrimination The German government on Wednesday signed off on a new law banning "conversion therapies" designed to force heterosexuality on homosexuals. https://www.thelocal.de/20191218/germany-plans-30000-fines-in-gay-conversion-therapy-ban Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:50:27 +0100 germany-plans-30000-fines-in-gay-conversion-therapy-ban Organisers of this year's Gay Pride week in Munich have a group of rather wild partners -- penguins, giraffes and lions at the city zoo where tours are being run about same-sex love in the animal kingdom. https://www.thelocal.de/20190713/zoo-showcases-bisexual-giraffes-for-munich-pride Sat, 13 Jul 2019 10:01:14 +0200 zoo-showcases-bisexual-giraffes-for-munich-pride German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Tuesday he plans to write a law this year to ban so-called conversion therapies that aim to make gays and lesbians heterosexual. https://www.thelocal.de/20190611/germany-plans-to-ban-gay-lesbian-conversion-therapy-homosexuality Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:53:20 +0200 germany-plans-to-ban-gay-lesbian-conversion-therapy-homosexuality German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Friday he will seek to ban conversion therapies that claim to change sexual orientation. https://www.thelocal.de/20190216/germany-to-ban-gay-conversion-therapies Sat, 16 Feb 2019 14:40:32 +0100 germany-to-ban-gay-conversion-therapies Traffic lights in the city of Cologne will be decked out with same-sex couples for Christopher Street Day (CSD), an annual celebration of the LGBTQ community. https://www.thelocal.de/20190213/same-sex-couples-traffic-lights-to-come-to-cologne Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:17:18 +0100 same-sex-couples-traffic-lights-to-come-to-cologne Wolfsburg captain Josuha Guilavogui wore a rainbow-coloured armband on Saturday for the first time as part of the Bundesliga club's efforts to fight homophobia in football. https://www.thelocal.de/20180826/wolfsburg-captain-wears-rainbow-armband Sun, 26 Aug 2018 11:45:55 +0200 wolfsburg-captain-wears-rainbow-armband Two men in Berlin became the first same-sex couple to adopt a child in Germany, a human rights association said on Tuesday, cheering another "big step forward" for gay people. https://www.thelocal.de/20171010/gay-couple-in-berlin-first-to-adopt-child-in-germany Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:29:17 +0200 gay-couple-in-berlin-first-to-adopt-child-in-germany Germany celebrates its first gay marriages on Sunday as same-sex unions become legal after decades of struggle, but campaigners say the battle for equal rights isn't over yet. https://www.thelocal.de/20171001/germany-celebrates-first-gay-marriages Sun, 01 Oct 2017 11:03:15 +0200 germany-celebrates-first-gay-marriages A protest by Muslim parents against a gay man looking after their children at a Kindergarten has led to a public debate in the liberal capital city. https://www.thelocal.de/20170329/muslim-parents-protest-after-gay-berlin-man-hired-to-raise-their-kids Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:40:01 +0200 muslim-parents-protest-after-gay-berlin-man-hired-to-raise-their-kids Nearly as many homophobic crimes were committed in the first nine months of 2016 as in all of 2015, according to a new report. https://www.thelocal.de/20161201/number-of-homophobic-crimes-rises-in-first-part-of-2016 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:02:36 +0100 number-of-homophobic-crimes-rises-in-first-part-of-2016 The percentage of the German population which identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) is higher than anywhere else in Europe, according to a new study. https://www.thelocal.de/20161021/more-germans-identify-as-lgbt-than-in-rest-of-europe Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:22:21 +0200 more-germans-identify-as-lgbt-than-in-rest-of-europe A gay couple will make history as they become the first homosexual couple to be ‘married’ in a Protestant church in Berlin on Friday, reports the Berliner Zeitung. https://www.thelocal.de/20160812/first-gay-wedding-in-berlin-protestant-church Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:11:36 +0200 first-gay-wedding-in-berlin-protestant-church Hundreds of thousands of people joined the Gay Pride parade on Sunday, with marchers waving rainbow flags and honouring the victims of the Orlando massacre. https://www.thelocal.de/20160704/cologne-gay-pride-parade-honours-orlando-victims Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:08:39 +0200 cologne-gay-pride-parade-honours-orlando-victims It's not easy starting a family as a gay couple in Germany, where same-sex marriage still isn’t granted. But this international pair have managed to do it - mainly because one is an expat. https://www.thelocal.de/20160623/how-two-gay-dads-cut-through-german-red-tape-to-start-a-family Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:48:20 +0200 how-two-gay-dads-cut-through-german-red-tape-to-start-a-family The far-right populist AfD party is trying to literally rewrite history over statements made by its representative who seemed to say gay people in Germany should be thrown in jail. https://www.thelocal.de/20160609/afd-backtracks-after-politician-says-gay-people-should-be-jailed Thu, 09 Jun 2016 15:00:41 +0200 afd-backtracks-after-politician-says-gay-people-should-be-jailed Homosexuality hasn’t been a crime for decades. But thousands of men still have criminal records based on a law that was wiped from the books in 1969. https://www.thelocal.de/20160511/injustice-of-1000s-of-gay-men-who-still-have-criminal-records Wed, 11 May 2016 17:29:41 +0200 injustice-of-1000s-of-gay-men-who-still-have-criminal-records A pair of gay vultures in a German zoo have adopted an egg abandoned by its mother and started to incubate it in a nest they built. https://www.thelocal.de/20160427/gay-vulture-couple-adopts-egg-in-german-zoo Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:11:01 +0200 gay-vulture-couple-adopts-egg-in-german-zoo Two male king penguins who didn't quite live up to their keepers' plans for them to go forth and multiply have been moved from Berlin to Hamburg zoo. https://www.thelocal.de/20160414/gay-penguins-move-from-berlin-to-hamburg Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:07:55 +0200 gay-penguins-move-from-berlin-to-hamburg Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest lender, on Tuesday added its voice to a growing protest by major companies against legislation recently passed in some US states targeting gay and transgender people. https://www.thelocal.de/20160412/deutsche-bank-cancels-us-growth-plans-over-lgbt-discrimination Tue, 12 Apr 2016 18:13:09 +0200 deutsche-bank-cancels-us-growth-plans-over-lgbt-discrimination