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The Ugandan minister for ethics and integrity has suggested that the country will ditch its plans to execute gays in favour of life imprisonment. James Nsaba Buturo said this would allow authorities to rehabilitate gays....
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Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered authorities on Wednesday to allow transvestites and eunuchs to identify themselves as a distinct gender as part of a move to ensure their rights, a lawyer said. Known by the term "hijra" in conservative Musli...
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Director Christopher Hines' documentary on what it means to be gay in a macho world arrives on DVD next month. The Butch Factor looks at masculinity when you're gay. ...
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Minneapolis assistant police Chief Sharon Lubinski has become the first openly gay U.S. marshal. The U.S. Senate last week confirmed the Green Bay, Wis. native to be the U.S. marshal for the Minnesota district. The decision also makes her the first female...
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Two Malawian men became the first gay couple to publicly tie the knot, the Nation newspaper reported on Monday, risking arrest in the conservative southern African state where homosexuality is illegal....
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A father is standing trial in Queensland, Australia, for allegedly forcing his 14-year-old son to sleep with a prostitute because he thought the boy was gay. According to the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, the alleged incident happened in 2007 at a family ...
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More than 10 gay websites in China have been recently forced to close or had their accounts deleted by their server hosting companies, an NGO said yesterday. "Some of the hosting service providers even told us that gay chatting was illegal," sai...
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Opponents of marriage equality in Washington, D.C. may have to balance their anti-family parity message with the risk of appearing to be anti-business: area companies are hoping that the newly-passed ordinance will attract wedding dollars to the nation&rs...
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Lord knows why designer Tom Ford, a member of one of the world's most externally directed professions, wanted to make a movie of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel A Single Man. The story of a middle-aged gay man grieving for his lover of 16 years...
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Lawmakers in Mexico City have become the first in Latin America to legalise gay marriage. City legislators passed the bill 39-20, with five abstentions. The city's mayor is now widely expected to sign the bill into law. ...
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For years now a culture war has raged between liberal rationalists and religious dogmatists over whether homosexuality should be treated equally by civil law. Having lost ground in recent years as young people grow up in a world far more familiar with the...
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Canada’s first openly-gay cabinet minister has stirred a controversy by printing his picture with his married partner on the couple’s Christmas greeting card. Scott Brison, 42, who in 2004 became Canada’s first openly gay cabinet ministe...
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A gay bar partially funded by the government of a Chinese city heavily affected by AIDS has finally opened after a delay caused by intense media interest which the owners felt may scared off potential patrons....
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Portugal's Socialist government has drawn up a proposal that would make Portugal the sixth European country to allow gay marriage. The law is almost certain to pass, as the center-left Socialist government has the support of all left-of-center parties...
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Britain's foremost PR advisor, Max Clifford, told The Independent on Sunday last night that he has represented two high-profile gay Premier League footballers in the past five years and has advised them to stay in the closet because football "rem...
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On a wet autumn evening, a small crowd gathers at the Hustler Hollywood store on Sunset Boulevard for a reading of James Buchanan’s new romance novel, Personal Demons. In the book, a gay FBI agent is about to make love to his boyfriend, an LAPD offi...
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“This one gooood for your eye-bags!” says the effeminate Filipino makeup salesman, holding up a tube of concealer to his tittering female colleague in what is obviously a catty form of affection. What makes his behaviour stand out is that I&rs...
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Prime minister Gordon Brown has said he is pushing European countries such as Spain and France to recognise civil partnerships registered in Britain. Speaking to Johann Hari for an interview in Attitude magazine, Brown said he was negotiating deals with t...
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A Christian registrar who was threatened with the sack after refusing to carry out gay weddings "as a matter of religious conscience" has lost an appeal against discrimination....
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The journalists' union has attacked the BBC over the World Service online talkboard discussion that asked if homosexuals should be executed, saying the post was "overly sensationalist" and could encourage hatred of gay people....