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• UK 'breaching UN rules' on returning gay asylum seekers

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  An Amnesty International report claims that the UK and several other European countries are breaching United Nations rules on returning vulnerable Iraqi asylum seekers. According to the report, women, ethnic minorities and gays, or those perceived to be g...

• Shelter from the storm for gays in crisis

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  Cape Town's gay population will soon have its own shelter offering safe, short-term accommodation for those in crisis. People who have been kicked out of their homes for coming out of the closet, rape survivors or transgendered people not welcome in e...

• Pro-Gay Article Sparks Smear Campaign in Yemen

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  A Yemeni filmmaker is facing a smear campaign from conservative and religious groups in his home country after publishing an article in a local magazine promoting gay rights. ...

• 'Iranian homosexuals carve out a refuge in Turkey

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  The salmon-colored building has seen better days. Paint peels from the moldy facades. Pieces of cardboard, newspaper and plastic cover the many missing windows — not worth replacing, because the neighborhood kids, who know this as "the gay buil...

• 'Gay dog' and his blind owner refused service in Australian restaurant

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  An Australian restaurant has been fined after turning a blind customer away because they thought his guide dog was gay. Ian Jolly, 57, was trying to enter the Thai Spice restaurant in Adelaide in May, 2009 when he was refused entry....

• UK: Conservatives suspend candidate over "offensive" comments

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  The Conservative party said on Tuesday it had suspended a candidate just days before the May 6 election after he made "deeply offensive and unacceptable" comments on his website....

• Survey finds more straight women barebacking than gay men

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  A survey has found that heterosexual women are less likely to use condoms for anal sex than gay men. The research, carried out by the New York City Department of Health, found that only 23 per cent of women required their male partners to use condoms duri...

• South Africa: Gay talk show turns one

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  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people are part of a broader society, we may be different in sexual orientations but we are all people with the same needs and are affected by similar issues, Frank Malaba, co-host and content produ...

• Morocco launches gay, lesbian magazine

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  Morocco has launched the country’s first gay and lesbian magazine in an effort to allow the embattled community to have their voices heard. The magazine, Mithly, hit newsstands on April 1 and is the first LGBT magazine of its kind in North Africa an...

• Gay Community Loses Black Civil Rights ally Dorothy Height

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  Civil Rights activist Dorothy Irene Height died on April 20th at the age of 98. Of prominent African American civil rights allies to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community – Corretta Scott King, Julian Bond, and John Lew...

• Another American Anti Gay Preacher Heads to Uganda for ‘Crusade’ Against Homosexuals

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  American gay-hating evangelist Lou Engle, the founder of TheCall movement, is heading for Uganda next month for “a crusade” against the “vice” of homosexuality....

• India's answer to Brokeback Mountain ready to hit cinemas

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  The posters are ready, so is the film. The only question is whether the Indian public is too. Dunno Y … Na Jaane Kyun, a film featuring India's first cinematic gay kiss, is scheduled to go on general release within weeks....

• Obama furthers gay rights

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  Presidential mandate grants medical priveleges but more should be done...

• What gay men can teach straights about safe sex

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  Women are skipping the condoms when it comes to, well, the backdoor ...

• 'Queer' film festival in Mumbai

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  Mumbai, Apr 23 (ANI): in an attempt to improve the image of gay persons in a nation where homosexuality still carries a heavy social stigma, the first edition of the Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, titled 'Kashish', kicked off here on Th...

• Deadly attack on gay man 'like Clockwork Orange scene'

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  A gay man was subjected to homophobic taunts before being punched and stamped to death in London's Trafalgar Square....

• School's out!

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  "Richard Burnett is a faggot." Those words were scrawled on my high school locker door in big block letters by some bully with a black marker. And I was terrified because I was a faggot. Back then, in 1982, McDonald Cartier Memorial High School ...

• Gay and bald? Evo Morales thinks you ate too much chicken

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  Bolivian president causes homophobia storm by blaming 'deviant' men on hormone-reared fowl...

• Damning report says practically all UK LGBT asylum claims are being refused

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  According to the UK's lesbian and gay asylum and immigration charity the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG) the British government is refusing 98-99% of claims made by LGBT compared to 73% for claims made on other grounds....

• Egypt's homosexuals find home in cyberspace

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  In Egypt, the very existence of homosexuality is rarely openly acknowledged. Laws on public morality are used to crack down on gay people and mean they live under continual threat of harassment and imprisonment. ...