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US gay groups have called on organisers of this weekend's Grammy Awards to denounce nominee Buju Banton. Banton, whose real name is Mark Anthony Myrie, was nominated in the Best Reggae Album category for Rasta Got Soul. This is his fourth Grammy nomin...
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Federal prosecutors in Mexico City announced yesterday they would seek to overturn the city's new gay marriage law on the grounds that it is unconstitutional....
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Hawaii lawmakers declined to vote Friday on a bill that would have allowed same-sex civil unions, effectively doing away with the measure.State House leaders said a narrow majority of representatives would have voted for civil unions, but they decided to ...
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Five human rights advocacy groups in five Western nations announced the official launching of the 346 No Executions campaign, a coordinated worldwide effort to inspire at least 346 citizens in each member nation to submit letters of petition to their resp...
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A new film which includes Bollywood's first gay screen kiss has stirred controversy in India months before its release. The film, Dunno Y ... Na Jaane Kyun, was made in the wake of a High Court ruling last year which legalised homosexuality....
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The Defense Department starts the clock next week on what is expected to be a several-year process in lifting its ban on gays from serving openly in the military. ...
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HIV/AIDS charity Terrence Higgins Trust is launching a new campaign to warn gay men that HIV can also be caught through their penises.The initiative hopes to counter the myth that HIV can only be caught if men are "bottoms"....
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The mayor of Moscow, known for his overtly homophobic statements, said Monday that he would never allow a gay pride parade in the city, calling it "Satanic" and saying marchers should be punished....
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A Malawian minister has expelled a woman suspected to be a lesbian from her constituency, saying she does not want her to "corrupt morals of my young constituents"....
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Operatives of the Manila Police District (MPD) raided a gay bar in Sta. Cruz, Manila, before dawn Friday and arrested more than 20 persons, including 14 male strippers, for allegedly presenting lewd shows to its patrons and for working without permit....
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The film, Dunno Y ... Na Jaane Kyun, was made in the wake of a High Court ruling last year which legalised homosexuality. But the film industy and gay rights campaigners are steeling themselves for protests from religious conservatives. ...
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Hawaii may very well be the next state to allow same-sex civil unions, possibly as early as next week. On Friday, the tropical state passed a same-sex civil union bill through its Senate, setting it up to move on to Hawaii’s House of Representatives...
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The BBC has commissioned a wide-ranging investigation into how lesbian, gay and bisexual people are portrayed on TV, radio and online.The research will ask a variety of people across the country what they think about subjects such as jokes, dramatic story...
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Nepal will play host to a royal wedding with a difference when an openly gay Indian prince marries his partner at a Hindu temple in Kathmandu. The ceremony is the start of what a Nepalese politician, Sunil Babu Pant, hopes will become a lucrative business...
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The organiser of an initiative to help gay people feel confident holding hands in public is celebrating the spread of the movement across the world. Gay rights activist David Watkins began the monthly event last year and has been asking participants aroun...
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Last week, the LGBT homeless charity Albert Kennedy Trust warned it was seeing an increase in the numbers of gay Muslims fleeing from forced marriages and family violence. However, for one gay Muslim, the experiences of gay EastEnders character Syed Masoo...
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The Indian Supreme Court is expected to give a final ruling on repealing the ban on gay sex next month. Last year, the Delhi High Court ruled that the colonial-era law was unconstitutional. Although this decision applied only to the jurisdiction of Delhi,...
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Parliamentarians have deleted a controversial clause in the draft Constitution that experts had warned could legalise same sex marriages. In its second day of its week-long retreat the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on the Constitutional Review yiel...
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A film on homophobic bullying is to be screened in all UK secondary schools next month. The film – the first of its kind to be sent to all schools – will try to stop pupils using the word "gay" in a derogatory way....
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"I think it is important that people, that this fact, that a father can kill his son, simply because of his sexual orientation. That is an important awareness, because maybe they were cases before, but we just did not know.... We read in the ne...