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UN resolution battle
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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moreSerial gay killer caught
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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morePink Christmas
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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moreHate Journalism South Africa
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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moreMoscow’s “Gay Propaganda”
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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moreObama’s Lesbian choice?
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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moreVatican vs Europe
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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moreIraqi Kurdistan: doctor in jail
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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moreSerbian Ministry Funding
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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moreComing Out 5
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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moreFriday Cultural Supplement 2
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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moreFriday Cultural Supplement 1
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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moreGay penguins steal eggs
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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moreWatch out for HIV
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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moreReview | Two Drifters
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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more187 K for harassed soldier
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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moreAdoption ban to bin
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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moreObama’s gay transition mates
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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moreViolence & Reputation
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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moreDating site bigotry
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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moreDuffman 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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moreIndia's gay IVF
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...
moreDrags aren't sick 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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moreMexican same-sex marriage?
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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moreFree legal advice!
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...
moreDutch young men homophobic?
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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moreProp 8 backer 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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moreMinister “The Gay”
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...
more"Cured of AIDS"
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...
moreSarko: remember gay 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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