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Ten young Iranian men, including eight teenagers, are currently awaiting execution for sodomy, and two more are being re-tried on the same capital charge. And, in an exclusive interview with Gay City News, an Iranian student gay rights activist confirmed ...
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A BAHAMIAN film telling the story of a gay man’s struggle in a fiercely homophobic society opened the Bahamas International Film Festival on Friday. About 200 Bahamians and international filmmakers attended the world premiere of Children of God at t...
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Gay advocates across the country are cheering the results of Houston's historic mayoral election. Voters handed a strong victory to City Controller Annise Parker, making Houston the largest U.S. city to ever elect an openly gay mayor. ...
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John Perez, an out gay man, has been unanimously elected as the California Assembly's speaker by a caucus of his Democratic colleagues. He will take over from incumbent Karen Bass to hold one of the most powerful political positions in the state....
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In a legal decision without precedent, the Constitutional Tribunal of Peru ruled yesterday in favor of a Police academy male student, who was expelled after graduate students accused him to his superiors of having sex with another male student. ...
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Ben and Brian are one of five couples - and the only gay couple - who have been selected by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) in a social media competition to help boost the flagging tourism industry in Thailand. Ben Reed and Brian Sommer both from ...
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Howard Selekman knew he had been attracted to men since he was 8, but in his 20s he still planned to marry a woman and have children with her. When he brought his fiancee to see his psychiatrist, the young woman was optimistic, even though she knew Selekm...
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A gay pageant is to be held for the first time in China, where homosexuality remains largely hidden, to crown the man who will represent the Asian nation at a worldwide contest, organisers said Thursday....
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Austria has passed a bill that will legalise civil unions for same-sex couples from the 1st of January next year, a move that ends "two decades of lobbying", according to the Homosexual Initiative Vienna....
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Houston’s openly gay city controller has pulled ahead in the race to be mayor of the nation’s fourth largest city, just two days before a runoff election, according to a new poll....
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Fighting the Taliban on the dusty battlefields of Afghanistan is one of the toughest challenges a soldier can face. But heroic Trooper Ben Rakestrow had to summon up his courage for a different reason last year - to tell his comrades-in-arms that he was h...
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An upcoming Bollywood film will feature what is thought to be the industry's first gay love scene. I Am Omar, one of four short stories which make up the film I Am, focuses on male sex workers and homophobic police officers....
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The McDonald’s fast-food outlet in Salt Lake Road, Orlando, Florida, took swift action yesterday following allegations that a member of staff had made a homophobic remark to a transgender teenager who had applied for a job....
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PepsiCo, which came under fire over the past 24 hours for having their brand associated with a concert by an anti-gay performer in Uganda, has issued a statement condemning the use of homophobic lyrics, and pledging that the company will maintain tighter ...
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SURVIVING PARTNERS in a same-sex relationship face unique challenges when their partner dies, the Irish Hospice Foundation said yesterday. A bereavement guide for gay and lesbian couples was launched by the foundation and the Gay and Lesbian Equality Netw...
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Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) leaders in America have urged musicians to sign a new petition protesting homophobic reggae star Buju Banton's Grammy Award nomination....
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America's Vice President Joe Biden has sworn in openly gay lawyer David Huebner as America's ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa....
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A Spanish man who was imprisoned as a teenager for being gay has become the first to receive an official letter of apology. Antoni Ruiz spent three months in jail under a law introduced during General Franco's dictatorship....
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Lawmakers in New York state have rejected a bill that would have granted marriage rights to gay couples. The state's senate voted against the legislation by 38 votes to 24. Several Democrats opposed the measure. ...
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In part one, Dr Qazi Rahman of Queen Mary University London discussed the impact of genes and hormones on homosexuality. Here, he addresses the isse of gay stereotypes and refutes psychoanalytic theories of why some people are gay. He also suggests that r...