Saturday, April 30, 2016
Friday, April 29, 2016
Colombia Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
Colombia's top court has legalised same-sex marriage, making the country the fourth in Latin America to do so.
Gay couples were already allowed to form civil partnerships, but Thursday's ruling extends them the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples.
Earlier this month the constitutional court dismissed a judge's petition against equal marriage rights for heterosexual and homosexual couples.
Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have previously legalised same-sex marriage.
Argentina was the first Latin American country to take the step in July 2010.
In Mexico, gay marriage is legal in the capital and in certain states.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Tom Daley Models Team GB's Rio Olympic Kit By Stella McCartney
(From left) rugby sevens player Tom Mitchell, Ennis-Hill, Daley, and Welsh Paralympic sprinter Olivia Breeze model the new attire
The new red, white, and blue uniforms, designed by McCartney in collaboration with Adidas, feature “a new British coat of arms created to act as a unifying symbol across the two teams and sports,”
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Monday, April 25, 2016
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Friday, April 22, 2016
Mona Lisa Smile 'based on Leonardo da Vinci's gay lover', Claims Art Historian
Mona Lisa’s iconic smile was based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s probable gay lover, an art historian has claimed.
The famous portrait that hangs in the Louvre in Paris has undergone infra-red analysis to give the art world more insight into one of the world’s most renowned paintings.
Following his examinations, Silvano Vinceti believes the artwork is an amalgamation of two models: a rich Florentine merchant’s wife, Lisa Gherardini, and da Vinci’s apprentice Gian Giacomo Caprotti, known to the artist as Salai, or Little Devil.
“The Mona Lisa is androgynous - half man and half woman,” he told The Telegraph, explaining that he studied other paintings based on Salai and found striking similarities. “You see it particularly in Mona Lisa’s nose, her forehead and her smile. We’ve come up with an answer to a question that has divided scholars for years. Who was the Mona Lisa based on?”(the Independent)
Thursday, April 21, 2016
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