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UN resolution battle

UN resolution battle

It comes down to the EU's initiative for gay rights vs the Arab countries' against pedophilia

The U.N. General Assembly split over the issue of gay rights on Thursday after a European-drafted statement calling for decriminalization of homosexuality prompted an Arab-backed one opposing it. Diplomats said...

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Serial gay killer caught

Serial gay killer caught

Police ineptitude? Disregard for crimes against gays? Both? Gay murderer caught after 13 deaths

After 13 murders of gay men in the same park in just a year and a half, Brazilian police finally arrest suspect of "rainbow murders"A retired police officer has been detained in connection with the murders of 13 gay...

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Pink Christmas

Pink Christmas

Gay Christmas?? Amsterdam tries to renew itself as gay capital with paradoxical celebration

A gay Dutch organization has organized a festival called “Pink Christmas”, to be celebrated for the first time in Amsterdam and that will, among other things, include a living Nativity scene with two Josephs and...

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Hate Journalism South Africa

Hate Journalism South Africa

South African journalist to court for writing homophobic article

After protests by activists, court investigates Sunday Sun writer for hate-filled texts... Four months had to pass before several complaints piled up against the  article. The Human Rights Commission had...

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Moscow’s “Gay Propaganda”

Moscow’s “Gay Propaganda”

Moscow Mayor Luzhov says there’s no place for “gay propaganda” in his well-informed city...

His latest of numerous verbal attacks was statement that "propagation of life-style of sexual minorities" was one of the factors in spreading AIDS/HIV in Moscow. This statement was made at the opening of conference...

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Obama’s Lesbian choice?

Obama’s Lesbian choice?

An employment rights activist who happens to be a lesbian might become the US’s first openly queer member of cabinet.

Mary Beth Maxwell is one of three in President Elect Obama’s shortlist for the position of secretary of labor. The Wall Street Journal describes her thus: “For the rainbow cabinet of the nation’s first...

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Vatican vs Europe

Vatican vs Europe

Blast from the past: Vatican opposes decriminalization of homosexuality...

Gay rights groups and newspaper editorials condemn the Vatican for its decision to oppose a proposed U.N. resolution calling on governments worldwide to de-criminalise homosexuality. The row erupted after the...

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Iraqi Kurdistan: doctor in jail

Iraqi Kurdistan: doctor in jail

Six months of jail for writing about homosexuality...

A Kurdistan journalist has been sentenced to six months of prison for writing an article about homosexuality. Dr. Adel Hussein, journalist and medical doctor, has already begun serving his time in Erbil’s central...

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Serbian Ministry Funding

Serbian Ministry Funding

The Ministry of Culture in Serbia has decided to give 2,500 GBP to Serbian GLBT news website.

The Ministry of Culture in Serbia has decided to give 2,500 GBP to a Serbian GLBT news website. Queer Serbia is updated often and offers news, culture and art-related  articles. The website strives to increase...

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Coming Out 5

Coming Out 5

The last item on the Coming Out Special deals with what happens when you are in the closet and in love

This is the last piece on our coming out special. A lot has been said already by Adrian, David, Farid and Chrissie. They have made good points about how coming out should be done on your own terms, but that it is also...

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Friday Cultural Supplement 2

Friday Cultural Supplement 2

Neil Patrick Harris and Jack Black starring "Prop 8: The Musical" (vid.)

Proposition 8: the musical, brought to you by Hairspray composer Marc Shaiman, features stars such as Jack Black and John C Reilly lampooning backers of the constitutional amendment, which limits marriage to a union...

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Friday Cultural Supplement 1

Friday Cultural Supplement 1

Sexy, politically-charged pictures with Arab-looking Israeli boys taken by Adi Nes

Adi Nes, Israeli-born half Kurdish half Iranian gay photographer gives you a gay look of the Middle East... Nes' most famous piece recalls Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper,  replacing the characters with...

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Gay penguins steal eggs

Gay penguins steal eggs

in bid to become fathers, Chinese zoo segregates gay penguins “to avoid disrupting the community”

The birds in the Harbin zoo in North East China have started to place stones at the feet of parents before wobbling away with their eggs. This has caused for tensions with the rest of the flock, and resulted in...

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Watch out for HIV

Watch out for HIV

The increasing amount of gay men with HIV is unaware of it, studies report

Health protection experts estimate there are now 77,400 people with HIV in the UK... Gay men accounted for 41% of new cases, but the Health Protection Agency  said heterosexual transmission is steadily...

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Review | Two Drifters

Review | Two Drifters

Keep an eye on Portugal’s talented new gay director and his smart, sexy movies

Not just any column this time: Gerardo reviews the movie 'Two Drifters'! And as director João Pedro Rodrigues’ second feature-length, Two Drifters (original Portuguese title: Odete), was a very pleasant discovery....

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187 K for harassed soldier

187 K for harassed soldier

Lesbian soldier kerry fletcher will get compensation for sexual harassment by male sergeant...

Lesbian soldier kerry fletcher will get the compensation for sexual harassment by male sergeant... The amount she is getting though is only half of the GBP 400 000.00 she originally sought. Lance Bombardier Kerry...

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Adoption ban to bin

Adoption ban to bin

Judge declares Florida adoption ban "unconstitutional"...

A Miami-Dade county judge has declared Florida’s state-ban on same-sex adoption as unconstitutional, allowing a North-Miami man to adopt the two children he has raised for the last four years. Judge Cindy Lederman...

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Obama’s gay transition mates

Obama’s gay transition mates

At least seven GLB's have been appointed to president electo Obama’s transition team...

At least seven GLB's have been appointed to president elect Obama’s transition team. These are the seven confirmed gay or lesbian members of Obama’s transition team, made up of 300 people. These people often...

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Violence & Reputation

Violence & Reputation

Amsterdam's government asks study on gay violence and does not like the results

Amsterdam faces an embedded problem of violent homophobia in spite of gay-capital reputation, according to a study released on Thursday. Speaking about the University of Amsterdam Study, commissioned by the city,...

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Dating site bigotry

Dating site bigotry

Court forces dating website to allow same-sex members and same sex searches

Online dating service eHarmony has agreed to create a new website for gays and lesbians as part of a settlement with a gay man in New Jersey, the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General said on Wednesday. The...

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Duffman is gay!

Duffman is gay!

Duffman, the pet for fictional Homer Simpson’s beer brand Duff, is gay!

Last Sunday’s episode of the Simpsons, the American cartoon show now on its 20th season, showed Homer Simpson setting up a break-up service to help his clients break up with their partners. Homer’s former gay...

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India's gay IVF

India's gay IVF

More and more Indians look at the country's homosexuality ban and ask: why?

The recent discussions between India’s Health and Interior ministers have sparked discussion in the South Asian country. Gay people with connections to Indian are speaking out, as the Israeli same-sex couple formed...

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Drags aren't sick in Sweden

Drags aren't sick in Sweden

Cross-dressing and fetishism no longer diseases in Sweden

Sexual behaviours such as cross-dressing, fetishism and sadomasochism will be taken off the “medical conditions” list in Sweden as from 2009, according to the National Welfare and Health Authority in Stockholm....

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Mexican same-sex marriage?

Mexican same-sex marriage?

Mexico City’s legislative assembly debates the approval of same-sex marriage laws!

It came out of the blue. After the approval of civil unions for similar to the French PACS in 2006, Mexico City took an important step towards the full recognition of gay and lesbian rights. Now, two years later,...

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Free legal advice!

Free legal advice!

Queen Mary University of London will launch a special legal hotline for GLBT people...

Queen Mary University of London will launch a special legal hotline for GLBT people. Name d The Pink Law Legal Advice Centre , it is the first such organ in a higher education centre. With the cooperation of...

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Dutch young men homophobic?

Dutch young men homophobic?

The Netherlands: most of 150 cases of violence against gay men and women were committed by native Dutch men...

Most of 150 cases of verbal or physical violence against gay men and women in the Netherlands in the first six months of 2008 were committed by native Dutch men --or no attacker was listed-- according to home affairs...

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Prop 8 backer fired

Prop 8 backer fired

The creative director of a California theater who donated 1 000 dollars to Yes on 8 has been fired

The anger of gay rights activists against proposition 8 takes a new form. The Mormon Creative Director of a theater in Sacramento California has been forced to quit his job after it was discovered that he had donated...

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Minister “The Gay”

Minister “The Gay”

Official Bosnia-Herzegovina website adds “the gay” to PM’s name

The Bosnian Health Ministry website published an news item on its website concerning typical government issues. What makes this announcement special is the suffix given to the prime minister  of the...

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"Cured of AIDS"

"Cured of AIDS"

A man seems to have been cured from AIDS after undergoing risky operation!

The unruly and infamous HIV virus has gained such a reputation that scientists don't often talk about curing it, focusing on prevention and treatment But in an announcement that has caused expectations to rise- even...

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Sarko: remember gay rights

Sarko: remember gay rights

Russian gays ask president Sarkozy to remind Putin/Medvedev about their rights.

In talks that will deal with the economic crisis and a new Pan-European security strategy, Russian gay groups write to President Sarkozy, head of the rotating EU presidency, and ask him to raise the issue of the...

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