DÉCISION DE LA COURS SUPRÊME DE L’INDE

ZERO Dar es Salaam governor Paul Makonda, Makonda for creating a 17- 17 member squad to round up and arrest LGBTQ Tanzanians in an antigay crackdown.

HEROES The 1,000 LGBTQ activists who gathered at Taksim Square in Istanbul for that city’s fourth annual Pride march on July 1, defying an official ban by Turkish authorities, and dodging police tear gas and rubber bullets.

HEROES The brave 120 marchers who took part in first Pride parade in Bridgetown, capital of Barbados, on July 22. First-ever Pride marches were also held in Guyana on June 2, Swaziland on June 30, and in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya on June 16. Some 180 LGBTQ refugees attended Pride in Kakuma, the third-largest refugee camp in the world, filled with 185,000 refugees.

HERO Cher, for attending the 40th annual Sydney Mardi Gras parade on March 3. Cher marched with a contingent of Cher drag queens!

HERO The High Court in Trinidad and Tobago, which on April 12 ruled sex between same-sex adults is legal.

HERO India’s Supreme Court, for overturning a 157-year-old British colonial-era law criminalizing gay sex, in a historic Sept. 6 ruling.

HERO Bermuda's Supreme Court which on June 5 overturned that country’s ban on same-sex marriage. The government has appealed the ruling.

ZERO Fashion brand Deisel for selling a bomber jacket covered with the word ‘faggot.’

ZEROES Photographers Bruce Weber and Mario Testino, whom TheNewYorkTimes reported on Jan. 13 have been accused by several male models of unwanted advances and coercion.

ZERO Bryan Deneumostier of South Florida, who on Sept. 20 plead guilty in Miami federal court to blindfolding straight men and luring them into making gay porn. The blow-job videos were uploaded to the now-defunct website StraightBoyz. On Dec. 3, Deneumostier was sentenced to three years in federal prison.

HERO Federal Court Justice Martine St-Louis, who on June 18 approved a historic deal to compensate LGBTQ members of the Canadian military and other agencies who were investigated and fired because of their sexual orientation. The final settlement could add up to $110 million in total compensation.

HEROES LGBTQ armed services veterans, honoured in the Montreal Remembrance Day ceremony for the very first time. Martine Roy, dishonourably discharged in 1985 because of her sexual orientation, laid the first-ever wreath for LGBTQ military members.