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Friday, September 19
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:: San Diego Fire Chief Tracy Jarman testified at a trial that she didn't realize the four firefighters who had been ordered to march with her in San Diego's biggest parade were upset about the assignment until she went to the staging area before the parade to thank them. "They were grumpy and unhappy," she testified. The four firefighters later asked for a "stress debriefing" and then sued the city, claiming they were sexually harassed at the at San Diego's LGBT Pride parade and mistreated at work after filing complaints. The annual...
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Tuesday, August 19
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Source: CNN , Press Association Argentina has approved its first nationwide gay rights measure -- granting gay couples the right to claim a deceased partners' pensions. Amado Boudo, director of the National Social Security Administration, is to sign the resolution on Tuesday. It will become law upon publication the following Wednesday, CNN reports. It requires that same-sex couples show they have lived together for at least five years. Boudou said the measure will "put the rights of all cohabitants on a level playing field," reports Britain's Press Association. Pedro Paradiso...
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Monday, May 26
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Source: Reuters , Made In Brazil blog , Earthtimes , Canadian Press Fearing random violence along the dense parade route, most Sao Paulo gay clubs pulled their floats from this year's parade, according to one report, but made up for it with huge parties like Girassol Day Party on Saturday evening. photo via Made In Brazil Huge crowds along the streets of Sao Paulo partied into the evening photos via UOL Gay SAO PAULO -- Millions of people waving rainbow flags and wearing lavish Carnival costumes danced and cheered their way through South America's largest city on Sunday to celebrate gay...
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Saturday, May 24
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Source: Reuters via Washington Post , Xinhua via People's Daily , Birmingham News Around 200 gay activists marched through Bucharest, Romania on Saturday in what news service Reuters calls a "heavily policed pride parade." A US mayor, meanwhile, echoed the action of several eastern European mayors by refusing to grant organizers of a Pride observance any kind of official recognition. It's a far different situation in Brazil where organizers are bracing to host one of the world's largest LGBT Pride parades -- one that's likely to draw over three-million spectators and participants...
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Tuesday, February 05
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Source: Associated Press via Google and AFP via Google Samba parades at Rio's Carnival feature participants like this smiling young hunk in extravagant costumes photo: ipanema.com RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Revelers wrapped up Brazil's wild carnival bash with the popular Gala Gay ball Tuesday night on Rio de Janeiro's streets, littered with feathers and sequins after five days of partying. Thousands of onlookers gawked as men in glittering miniskirts, evening dresses, bead-studded lingerie and feathered headdresses shimmied down a wide avenue to the sounds of ABBA's "Dancing...
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Friday, January 11
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Source: Trinidad & Tobago Express via UK Gay News Trinidad-born "Jessie Hanes" (a pseudonym), a gay, HIV-positive man living in New York who was granted asylum by a US court recently, would be pleasantly surprised to learn that HIV/AIDS patients in Trinidad and Tobago today, receive free medicine and are accepted both within their families and at the workplace, Beverly King, an HIV/AIDS social worker has said. She said that 20 years ago, not even families accepted one of their own who tested positive for HIV. "We lived in a society, at that time, in which people were afraid to...
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Saturday, January 05
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Source: dpa via Big Gay News Rio de Janeiro (dpa) - Gay rights activist Francisco de Oliveira Soares on Thursday became the fourth homosexual killed in two years in the Cariri region, in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Ceara, police said. The dead body of the hairdresser, 28, was found with multiple stab wounds in his salon in the town of Crato, 550 kilometres from Ceara capital Fortaleza. Police probes were initially focusing on the hypothesis of a crime of passion, since nothing was stolen from the site. Full article: Big Gay News » Gay Rights Activist Killed in Brazil
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Thursday, December 27
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Source: AFP via France24.com Uruguay on Thursday became the first Latin American country to recognize gay civil unions, after President Tabare Vazquez signed a law granting certain legal rights to cohabiting couples of any gender. Uruguay's law takes effect nationally at the start of 2008. The new law guarantees heterosexual or homosexual couples who have lived together continuously for more than five years social benefits enjoyed by married couples such as joint property ownership and hereditary rights. The text recognizes "two people -- of any sex, identity, orientation or sexual option...
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Thursday, December 20
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Source: Xinhua RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Uruguay's legalization of civil unions for homosexual couples may open new possibilities for homosexual couples in Brazil, said Brazilian lower house member Fernando Gabeira on Wednesday. Gabeira, of the Green Party, told local media that the tendency of a uniform legislation in the four member states of the South American Common Market (Mercosur), namely, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay, may give a chance to Brazilian same-sex couples to legalize their unions. However, Gabeira said the possibility was "just a supposition for the...
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