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The Australian Senate today rejected a bill to give equal marriage rights to gay citizens. The bill was introduced by the Greens but was defeated 45-5, just days before the world’s biggest gay celebration, Sydney Mardi Gras....
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It is generally understood that today’s youth are more supportive of equality for gay and lesbian people. Faced with losing the next generation, fundamentalists are ferociously scrambling to capture the minds of youth through homeschooling and the s...
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“We want to connect some of the dots. We believe there is value in individual strength, but there’s also value in community.” So says Trevor Gray. Gray and others are mounting a weekend summit in downtown Toronto that will bring to...
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Stereotypes: the sometimes true, usually false, and generally good-for-a-laugh set of attributes we assign to pretty much every group of people to which we’ve given a label. Some carry positive connotations, while others are negative and offensive. ...
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Ahmed, a gay British Pakistani Muslim, knows his religion forbids homosexual acts but believes Allah is perfect and loves him. Ahmed took part in a recent study published in the British Journal of Social Psychology by Rusi Jaspal and colleagues from the U...
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Telecoms giant BT has launched a new website to provide lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people with essential business travel information. The firm has teamed up with the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex As...
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Charles Lisboa, 41, told a tribunal how staff in The Pembroke Arms, a former gay pub in London’s Shepherd’s Bush, were referred to as “queens” and one was told his manner of walking was “too camp”. ...
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The recent murders of two transgender women in Turkey highlight an ongoing pattern of violence and the urgent need for stronger protection measures by the government, four Turkish and international human rights organizations said today in a letter to Turk...
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A collection of pro-gay artists and activists will unite in London on 28 February in response to Africa's continuing political unrest. The free event, Gay Africa, is organised in association with English Pen - a charity working to promote literature a...
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BEIJING — It's past midnight and hundreds of men pack Destination. They talk in smoky corridors, move to the beat on a crowded dance floor and play shirtless around a dance pole. Destination is a lot like any number of gay bars in the United Sta...
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Since a Ugandan MP proposed the death penalty for some gay people, homophobia has been on the rise in other parts of Africa....
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Mexico's Supreme Court on Friday rejected three out of five challenges to Mexico City's gay marriage law, El Universal reported. The court said the challenges brought by the governors of three states controlled by the conservative PAN Party were &...
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Capleton is the latest dancehall star to feel the heat from gay-rights groups in the United States. His appearances on three shows, scheduled for this week in California, have been cancelled after pressure from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamat...
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A Ugandan pastor who screened same-sex pornography in a church to try to bolster support for proposed anti-homosexuality legislation has been condemned by gay rights groups....
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The 24th Lesbian and Gay Film Festival is to take place in London next month at the British Film Institute. The event will be held between 17th and 31st March 2010 at the BFI Southbank....
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A survey has found that the wording used when asking the public about their views on gay rights makes a substantial difference to the answers. A recent CBS News/New York Times poll asked 1,084 American adults their view on gays serving openly in the milit...
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France has become the first country in the world to declassify transgenderism as a mental illness. Health minister Roselyne Bachelot announced in May last year, before International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), that the country would mo...
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Police in Malawi have launched an operation to hunt down and arrest high-profile gays and lesbians in the southern African state....
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A college student wants IM GAY on his Oklahoma car tag, and he is suing to force state tax officials to approve his request. "I want to tell people who I am and what I am. I’m proud of it. I’m openly gay. I’m not hiding,” said...
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Police in Mtwapa, just north of the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa, say they have arrested five men whom they accuse of being homosexuals. District officer George Matandura said two of the men had been found with wedding rings, attempting to get married, ...