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The struggle against gender oppression in Kenya endures. Following the recent unlawful arrest and assault of a transgender woman in the country, Audrey Mbugua voices the subordination of those who do not comply with the restrictive gender-based identities...
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As the gay marriage debate continues in the US, a smart, entertaining new film by Lisa Cholodenko, "The Kids Are All Right", is drawing crowds and slyly updating the big-screen standard for what is a "normal" American family....
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Peru has announced it will debate a gay unions bill after Argentina became the first country in the region to legalize gay marriage. Congressman Jose A. Vargas has told the Peru press that he will introduce a bill that recognizes gay and lesbian couples w...
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A French court has ordered that a British man should be returned more than £30,000 he paid to tax authorities after inheriting a home from his civil partner. Jerry Lea shared the holiday home in Loir-et-Cher with partner Geoff Page, who owned the pr...
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A trans woman is one of the models in an advert for designer label Givenchy. Lea T is a former male model and previously worked as the assistant of Givenchy's creative director Riccardo Tisci. She can be seen in an autumn/winter 2010 group image for t...
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An elderly gay man from California has won a $600,000 (£388,144) settlement after claiming he was barred from seeing his dying partner in hospital. Clay Greene, 78, of Guerneville, claimed that Sonoma County’s Public Guardian programme discrim...
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KATHMANDU — Nepal will this year hold its first gay pride parade, the country's only openly homosexual member of parliament told AFP on Tuesday....
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A lawsuit to be filed in Hawaii by six gay couples asking for equal rights to straight married couples is expected to reach the Hawaii Supreme Court....
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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Economic and Social Council voted Monday to accredit the U.S.-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission after strong lobbying by the Obama administration....
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A gay student caught in a battle with high school officials regarding her prom date is set to receive a $35,000 settlement from a discrimination lawsuit. ...
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NAIROBI, Kenya - He is only 23 years old but his eyes look weary, shrivelled and downcast - like someone who hasn't slept for days; has been crying or has been through too much pain. I can't quite put a finger to it. ...
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LIYANNA Grey will represent Jamaica in the 2010 Gay Caribbean/USA Pageant today in New York City, US. Grey is one of eight transvestite contestants who will make their first public appearance at the event in the borough of Brooklyn. ...
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The Sunday Times has disclosed that the Conservative Party filmed pre-election cinema advertisements that portrayed a gay couple, in a shower "coming out" as Conservative among racy series with references to pornography and teenage pregnancy but...
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The Obama administration and 14 members of the U.S. Congress are urging the U.N. Economic and Social Council to accredit the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission so it can work at the United Nations....
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That same-sex marriage as a right is an emerging consensus; but support for a broader diversity will be more difficult to gain....
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Mexico City has offered a free honeymoon to the first gay couple to marry in Argentina under a new law. The couple would have all expenses paid in the Mexican capital and in the beach resort of Cancun, the city's tourism secretary, Alejandro Rojas, sa...
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Warsaw, Poland was host to this year's gay EuroPride festival, the first ever to be held in a country in the former communist bloc. The event has sparked controversy in Poland, and the parade on Saturday was met with heckling and counter-protests....
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Gay rights charity Stonewall has become a main sponsor of UK Black Pride. Black Pride, to be held on Saturday August 14th, is the UK's biggest celebration of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American LGBT people and their friends....
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Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle vetoed a civil-union bill last week which would've granted same-sex couples all the rights, benefits, responsibilities and obligations of marriage under a different name....
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A study of more than 2,000 football fans has found that the vast majority frown upon homophobic abuse shouted from the terraces. The research, carried out by the University of Staffordshire, found that 93 per cent of those surveyed disapproved of the abus...