Swiss LGBTQ+ rights groups hail 60-day sentence for polemicist who called journalist a 'fat lesbian'abcnews.go.comexternal-link Collision Resistance ( @CollisionResistance@lemm.ee ) World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months ago message-square17fedilinkarrow-up146
arrow-up146external-linkSwiss LGBTQ+ rights groups hail 60-day sentence for polemicist who called journalist a 'fat lesbian'abcnews.go.com Collision Resistance ( @CollisionResistance@lemm.ee ) World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months ago message-square17fedilink
minus-square quindraco ( @quindraco@lemm.ee ) linkfedilink14•9 months agoWait. Did they just get “lesbian” legally declared an insult? Because that sounds like a huge step in the wrong direction for the gay community.
minus-square xor ( @xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) linkfedilinkEnglish9•9 months agoDiscrimination based on sexual orientation is, rightly, illegal in Switzerland Saying someone is a lesbian is fine, using it as an insult to degrade them publicly on TV is not
Wait. Did they just get “lesbian” legally declared an insult? Because that sounds like a huge step in the wrong direction for the gay community.
Discrimination based on sexual orientation is, rightly, illegal in Switzerland
Saying someone is a lesbian is fine, using it as an insult to degrade them publicly on TV is not