Collision Resistance to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months agoSwiss LGBTQ+ rights groups hail 60-day sentence for polemicist who called journalist a 'fat lesbian'abcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down15
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkSwiss LGBTQ+ rights groups hail 60-day sentence for polemicist who called journalist a 'fat lesbian'abcnews.go.comCollision Resistance to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-square@quindraco@lemm.eelinkfedilink14•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-squarexorlinkfedilinkEnglish8•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