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Thursday, September 04
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Source: Belfast Telegraph , BBC News Less than a year after the team was formed, Ulster Titans headed to the Bingham Cup, the world championship for gay-friendly rugby teams. photo: BBC A sports team fighting adversity and striving to be the best in their field is a regular weapon in Hollywood's blockbuster arsenal. Audiences mark these down as morality tales and a flights of cinematic fantasy, but now Northern Ireland has a real version of this formulaic story. And their inspiring story will be told in a documentary that airs on BBC Northern Ireland this weekend. This team has faced adversity...
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Monday, September 01
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Source: Religious Intelligence , Telegraph (London) , Times (London) A conservative American bishop who is an official of the conservative, schismatic American Anglican Council (AAC) has alleged that the Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, hopes to appoint the first out gay bishop in the UK. Citing anonymous sources that he characterizes as "reliable", the conservative US bishop, David Anderson, claims that Morgan has included the name of the Very Rev Jeffrey John in a secret list of candidates to become Bishop of Bangor. Last month Morgan told the Sunday Telegraph he would support...
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Sunday, August 31
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Source: Daily Mail , Metro Weekly , Times (London) , National Catholic Register Cardinal John Henry Newman Despite protests that it would be guilty of homophobic grave robbing, the Vatican is moving ahead with plans to dig up the remains of Cardinal John Henry Newman, a revered Catholic priest, thinker, and writer, who died in 1890. He has been nominated in a complex process used by the Catholic Church to make someone a saint in the church, and part of the process requires exhumation, Catholic officials argue. Newman is expected to be declared a saint sometime next year, but -- before that happens...
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Thursday, August 28
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Source: The Australian , Reuters , Islam Online SARAJEVO -- Plans to hold Bosnia's first gay festival during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan were denounced by the Muslim community on Thursday as an affront to religious feelings. "We respect freedom and tolerance, but the festival is a kind of provocation since it is taking place during Ramadan," Amir Zukic of the Party of Democratic Action, Bosnia's main Muslim party, told the Dnevni Avaz newspaper. "Bosnia is a conservative society," he said, "and I doubt that such an event would be accepted." His words...
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Tuesday, August 26
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Source: AFP , Angelicuss TV preview Gay folks in Romania will their own online TV channel, starting October 1, AFP reports. The web-only TV channel will be dedicated to "the life and problems of the gay community," its creators said Monday. The channel, dubbed Angelicuss TV, will be launched the northwestern town of Cluj by the anti-discrimination group Be An Angel , which already runs a comprehensive website focusing on entertainment and political issues in Romania. Be An Angel also sponsors an the annual gay film festival in Cluj-Napoca, according to an entry in Wikipedia . AFP notes...
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Sunday, August 17
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Source: Goal.com , GoalVideoz.com Ronaldo celebrates shirtless (probably from 2004 since he's lately given up on the highlights) photo via blog Hot, even with crutches as he recovers this summer from an ankle injury photo: Goal.com photo: WorldCupJapanKorea.com photo: GoalVideoz.com A guy reportedly named after Ronald Reagan beat out Kylie Minogue, Judy Garland, Elton John, and even David Beckham to be crowned the top "Gay Icon" by a European website, soccer site Goal.com reports. Meet Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro. Just "Ronaldo" to his...
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Sunday, August 17
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Source: Telegraph (London) , Times (London) The British intelligence service, MI5, which deals with counter-terrorism within the UK, has hired the country's largest LGBT advocacy group to help it attract a broader range of candidates. MI5 will appear in this year's graduate recruitment guide published by Stonewall, the Telegraph and the Times report. The guide lists gay-friendly employers. Until the early 1990s, gays had been barred from sensitive government jobs because of fears they would be open to blackmail. Ben Summerskill, director of Stonewall, who coincidentally went to school with...
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Saturday, August 16
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Source: DPA via Deutsche Welle , The Australian Berlin's memorial to gays and lesbians persecuted during the Nazi era has been vandalized less than three months after it was inaugurated, police in the German capital said Saturday, Aug. 16. The vandals broke a viewing window and pushed over a fence, in the first time the memorial has been damaged. The monument -- a simple gray concrete slab that stands about 5m high -- contains a window through which viewers can watch a video of a "never-ending" kiss between two men. The window had been smashed by unknown assailants, police said, adding...
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Saturday, August 02
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Source: Deutsche Welle , Radio Netherlands , Associated Press via IHT , Irish Times , Belfast Telegraph Amsterdam Pride Canal Parade, 2008 Water guns photo by CBImages, Flickr Flags photo by Joseph111, Flickr An estimated half-million people turned out this weekend for Amsterdam's 13th annual Gay Pride canal parade. The numbers were similar Saturday in Stockholm where about 45,000 people showed up for a downtown march that marked the finale of the Swedish capital's week-long gay pride festivities. Some 450,000 people lined the parade route in Stockholm according to police and...
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Monday, July 28
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Source: Belfast Telegraph , Guardian , Times (London) A leading gay rights activist has raised the temperature in the row over homosexuality by claiming there was evidence King Billy, a revered historical figure for unionists in Northern Ireland, had male lovers. Claims that the warrior monarch, portrayed in manly battle on wall paintings across Ulster, promoted handsome young retainers and chose lovers from among them, will be revived by the gay campaigner Peter Tatchell. In the Amnesty International Pride lecture in Belfast tonight, Tatchell plans to rehearse 17th-century evidence that William...
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Friday, July 25
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Source: Irish Times , Belfast Telegraph The organizers of a gay pride parade in Belfast were today urged to ensure that there will be no repeat of the controversy surrounding last year's event when a participant displayed a placard suggesting Jesus was gay. The Northern Ireland Parades Commission, which rules on contentious marches in the region, has decided not to place any restrictions on next weekend’s event in Belfast city centre despite what Dublin's Irish Times characterizes as a "significant number" of objections from the public. The commission will not restrict the religious...
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Thursday, July 24
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Source: AFP , Eurogames press release , Pink News Barcelona -- More than 5,000 athletes, gay and straight, from across Europe are converging on Barcelona for the Eurogames which get underway on Thursday in the Spanish port city, organizers said. The Olympics-style games are expected to attract more than 30,000 tourists to this port city. The event could pump €30-million into the local economy, according to Barcelona gay sports group Panteras Grogues (Yellow Panthers) which is organizing the event. The four-day event will kick off with a colorful opening ceremony on Thursday at the Palau Sant Jordi...
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Tuesday, July 22
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Source: Reuters , Telegraph , e Yugoslavia ATHENS -- A Greek court last week ruled a gay rights group can use the word lesbian, saying people from the Aegean island of Lesbos did not have sole claim to the name. Three islanders from Lesbos filed a lawsuit against the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece (OLKE) in April, accusing it of insulting locals, who are also called Lesbians. "They insult our historical and geographical identity by using the name," said the lead plaintiff, Dimitris Lambrou. The islanders were seeking to have the group barred from using the word 'Lesbian'...
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Monday, July 21
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Source: Times (London) , PinkNews , Stonewall press release Religious leaders in England are out of touch with what people in their congregations think about their fellow church members who are gay and lesbian. A report commissioned by UK LGBT advocacy group Stonewall concludes that faith leaders are failing to reflect what the people in the pews really think about gays. The report, Love Thy Neighbour , written by academics at Leeds University, says that Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Christian believers are "significantly more moderate" in their views on homosexuality than is often alleged...
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Saturday, July 19
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Source: The Independent Ahmet Yildiz photo via The Independent Ahmet Yildiz, 26, was buried Saturday. London's The Independent reports that Yildiz's friends believe he was the victim of the country's first gay honor killing. Ahmet Yildiz, 26, a physics student who represented his country at an international gay gathering in San Francisco last year, was shot leaving a cafe near the Bosphorus strait this week. Fatally wounded, the student tried to flee the attackers in his car, but lost control, crashed at the side of the road and died shortly afterwards in hospital. "He fell victim...
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Sunday, June 22
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Source: Aktuálně.cz , TOL Magazine Brno, Czech Republic -- What is billed by the news site Aktuálně.cz as the first gay and lesbian march ever held in the Czech Republic will be staged, not in Prague, the country's cosmopolitan capital, but in its second largest city, the provincial capital of Brno. The so-called "Rainbow Parade" event, planned for Saturday 28 June, has already caused controversies among far-right and Christian groups, Aktuálně reports. The tradition of gay pride marches emerged in the USA in the 1970s and is now a commonplace in most of the major Western cities....
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Tuesday, June 17
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Source: Reuters , Associated Press via MSNBC BERLIN (Reuters) - An openly gay Lutheran cleric is one of two candidates for the post of bishop of Schleswig in northern Germany, Reuters reports. Horst Gorski, a senior cleric from Hamburg, is described by Reuters as a widely respected theologian who helped set up a center for gay and lesbian Lutheran pastors, but his open homosexuality angers some Lutheran conservatives who argue his election as bishop would leave many Christians with no spiritual home. Gorski is one of two candidates for the post along with Gerhard Ulrich, a senior cleric from the...
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Monday, June 16
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Source: Guardian , Reuters , Times (London) A gay priest who angered conservative Christians by exchanging rings and vows with his partner in a church ceremony for his civil partnership in London last month has resigned, London's The Guardian reports. The Rev Dr David Lord, a New Zealander who tied the knot with English clergyman Peter Cowell on May 31, "felt it appropriate to lay down his clergy license", according to a statement released through the Anglican church in New Zealand. His decision will debar him from officiating as a priest. It comes amid a furore over the ceremony...
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Wednesday, June 11
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Source: AFP , Earthtimes , PinkNews OSLO -- Norway's parliament on Wednesday adopted a new gender-neutral marriage law that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry and adopt children and permits lesbians to be artificially inseminated, AFP reports. After a heated debate, the members of parliament adopted the text by a vote of 84 to 41. Gunn Karin Gjul of the Labour Party said it was "a historic day" and compared the passage of the bill to "universal suffrage and the gender equality law." Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen, also finance minister, said the bill...
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Tuesday, June 10
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Source: Guardian , New York Times , Associated Press An attempt to stop a Greek advocacy group from using the term "lesbian" begins in Athens today with a court hearing that comes amid growing national debate over gay rights in one of Europe's most socially conservative countries. The hearing has been initiated by plaintiffs on the Aegean island of Lesbos, who say they are unhappy that gay women have "usurped" a term that locals claim should have only geographical connotations. The suit is specifically directed at Greek LGBT rights group OLKE , and seeks to force the group...
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Sunday, June 08
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Source: AFP , Radio Netherlands Thousands took to the streets of Athens, Rome and Warsaw for Gay Pride parades, drawing attention to the fact that many gay people in Europe still do not enjoy the same rights as heterosexuals. Marchers in Warsaw were separated from right wing demonstrators by heavy police presence. The Athens parade was headed by Evangelia Vlami, one of the four gay newly-weds married last Tuesday by the mayor of the island of Tilos, who took advantage of a legal loophole. Vlami, head of the Greek Union of Homosexuals and Lesbians (Olke), rode at the head of the parade that drew...
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Saturday, June 07
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Source: DPA via Monsters & Critics , AFP , UK Gay News Warsaw -- About 2000 people marched today in the Polish capital's annual gay rights parade amid heavy a police presence and counter-protests by right-wing nationalist groups. The hundreds of gay men, lesbians, and supporters set off from a downtown square in the Warsaw Pride parade, waving rainbow-colored gay pride and European Union flags. They were led by several trucks blasting techno music, filled with dancers and women wearing Las Vegas-style feathered headpieces. Most of the young, colorfully dressed participants made their way...
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Thursday, June 05
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Source: PR Newswire (press release) , Sydney Star Observer , Bay Area Reporter Rugby players from the world's gay rugby teams are landing in Ireland this week for the the 2008 Bingham Cup, commonly known as the 'Gay Rugby World Cup'. The tournament starts Friday, June 13, in Dublin. The tournament is the second largest biennial amateur rugby tournament in the world, according to organizers. The 2006 cup, which took place in New York, was the biggest yet. The tournament is named for San Franciscan Mark Bingham, one of the September 11 Flight 93 heroes. Thirty teams drawn from clubs around...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: The Local Stockholm -- A 35-year-old man thought to be a serial murderer was indicted on Tuesday, suspected of murder, attempted murder, aggravated robbery, and theft. All of the suspect’s victims were gay men, reports The Local , an English-language Swedish news site. The man, whose name cannot be released under Swedish law unless he is convicted, is charged with killing a 43-year-old man in the victim’s apartment in the Stockholm suburb of Solna on December 28th of last year, and on the previous day of having robbed and attempted to kill a 44-year-old man on Södermalm in Stockholm. The...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: Sophia News Agency , News24.com , Reuters Prosecutors have filed charges against the small-town mayor who performed the first two weddings of same-sex couples yesterday in Greece. Mayor Tasos Aliferis performed the civil ceremonies for two couples, one gay and one lesbian, shortly after dawn on Tuesday before hundreds of witnesses that included members of the countries gay and lesbian community, journalists and island residents. Defying the country's justice minister, he was later charged with breach of duty by a prosecutor on the nearby island of Rhodes, under whose jurisdiction Tilos...
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Tuesday, June 03
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Source: Hounslow Guardian , Press Association , PinkNews.com , SkyNews Kevin Greening, a popular morning DJ on England's Radio One network, died after taking a cocktail of cocaine, ecstasy, and GHB, which was followed by a bondage sex session involving a sling, mask, gaffer tape and cling film, an inquest heard yesterday. The inquest concluded today that his death was "misadventure," PinkNews reports. In testimony before a coroner's court, Greening's boyfriend Sean Griffin broke down briefly as he gave evidence of the events leading up to his partner's death on Saturday...
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Tuesday, June 03
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Source: Deutsche Welle , New York Times , BBC News , AFP Defying threats of prosecution, the mayor of a remote Greek island performed the country’s first same-sex marriage on Tuesday. Tilos Mayor Tasos Aliferis performed the early morning civil ceremony between two men before hundreds of witnesses, including members of the country's gay and lesbian community, journalists and Tilos residents, Deutsche Welle reports. Another ceremony was also held for two women, both BBC and New York Times report. The civil ceremonies, held at sunrise in the nondescript town hall of Tilos, a tiny island in the...
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Monday, June 02
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Source: Moscow Times , Telegraph (London) , Associated Press , AFP According to AFP, the banner briefly unfurled near the Kremlin calls for "Rights for Gays and Lesbians. Condemn the Moscow Mayor's Homophobia" photo: Moscow Times Moscow -- Gay rights activists protested in defiance of a City Hall ban on Sunday, marching with placards and rainbow flags in front of the Moscow State Conservatory and unfurling a banner demanding greater rights for gays and lesbians from an apartment window opposite the mayor's offices, just blocks from the Kremlin, Moscow Times reports. Dozens of...
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Saturday, May 31
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Source: Deutsche Welle, Associated Press via IHT , UK Gay News Gay Pride demonstrators were allowed to march on a street in Riga this year. Photos: UK Gay News Protesters with Russian-language signs and bizarre condom costumes separated from Pride demonstrators by a cordon of police Photo: UK Gay News Gay rights activists and their opponents have squared off Saturday during a parade in downtown Riga, Latvia in what has become an unfortunate springtime tradition in the Baltic country. For the first time, however, the demonstration in Riga was mostly peaceful this year, and included an unprecedented...
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Friday, May 30
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Source: AFP , Reuters , Associated Press via IHT , The News (Pakistan) ISTANBUL -- A leading Turkish gay rights lobby group vowed Friday to fight a court ruling that ordered its closure after prosecutors accused it of breaching morality and family norms. A Turkish court closed Istanbul's only gay rights association on Thursday after the prosecutor said it broke public morality laws. The prosecutor said that LambdaIstanbul violated a constitutional provision on the protection of the family and an article banning bodies "with objectives that violate law and morality." The court's...
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