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Saturday, July 19
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Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel , NBC6.net WILTON MANORS -- Vandals spray-painted anti-gay slurs on three homes and a car early this morning, police say. The incidents in this Broward County suburb are being investigated as a hate crime, police spokesman David Jones said. Wilton Manors is considered a gay-friendly neighborhood, Sun Sentinel reports, and has a significant gay population. An estimated 40 percent of its residents are gay, according to census data. Jones said this is the first time this kind of vandalism has happened in the area and it appears to be random. The words "gay"...
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Saturday, June 14
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Source: Advocate Concerned Women for America will lose its spokes man when Matt Barber leaves the right-wing group that has of late been most obviously opposed to LGBT rights, the Advocate reports. As the group's "policy director for cultural issues", Barber has generated of most of its public statements and is a frequent guest on Fox News and other cable talk shows. After the California Supreme Court carefully considered the state's legal precedents on equality and weighed dozens of arguments from both sides, Barber described the court's decision authorizing marriage equality...
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Wednesday, June 11
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Source: The (Bergen) Record , Newark Star-Ledger , Associated Press via Philadelphia Inquirer Secaucus, NJ -- A Hudson County jury has awarded $2.8 million to a gay couple who said they were ritually and viciously harassed by volunteer firefighters for more than two years when they were living next door to a firehouse in Secaucus. The gay couple claimed for years that Secaucus did little to protect their civil rights or investigate the firemen. Earlier this week, a civil court jury in Hudson County agreed, the Star-Ledger reports. After a month-long trial, the jury on Tuesday awarded Peter de Vries...
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Wednesday, June 11
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Source: Reuters , AFP NEW YORK -- A leading human rights group has appealed to Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to disavow his reported comments encouraging violence against gays. In an open letter to Jammeh, New York-based Human Rights Watch also said it was concerned about the arrest or questioning of at least four people in The Gambia's capital Banjul following his statements. "We urge you to publicly disavow threats and vilification directed against gays and lesbian people in Gambia," said the letter signed by Scott Long, director of HRW's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender...
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Tuesday, June 03
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Source: Voice of America , News24.com , PinkNews.com Human rights groups say Monday's arrest of two Spanish men in The Gambia for allegedly making homosexual advances is part of a continuing human rights problem in West Africa. "We are equally concerned with local Gambians who, as you know, will be facing this kind of repression after the media spotlight is no longer on the Gambia," said Cary Alan Johnson, the Senior Africa Specialist for New-York based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. The Spanish tourists were detained in the coastal resort of Kotu on charges...
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Monday, June 02
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Source: The Point (Banjul, Gambia) , Afrik.com , Associated Press via IHT Police in Gambia arrested two Spanish men last Friday for allegedly making what press reports call "homosexual proposals" to taxi drivers. Pere Joan, 56, and Juan Monpserratrusau, 54, were held at Kotu police station, Gambia's The Point newspaper reported. The arrests comes against the backdrop of the pronouncements of President Yahya Jammeh last month in which he condemned homosexuality as a menace in the country, and issued an ultimatum for any gay people in the country to leave within 24 hours. related in...
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Thursday, May 29
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Source: AlterNet Kern's anti-gay rant In the Republican-dominated Oklahoma statehouse, legislators are defining new frontiers of bigotry, according to a analysis by Richard L. Fricker of Consortium News . The Legislators have passed xenophobic immigration laws, engaged in widely supported verbal gay bashing, spouted anti-Muslim bigotry, and encouraged gun-toting students. Through it all, Democratic legislators have often been too timid to resist, Fricker reports. Sally Kern made herself into a local hero of bigotry by focusing on what she insists is the country's gravest danger: gays and...
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Friday, May 23
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Source: News.com.au , BBC News ECCENTRIC Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has threatened to behead gays unless they leave the country, according to reports. "The Gambia is a country of believers ... sinful and immoral practices (such) as homosexuality will not be tolerated in this country," the president told a crowd at a political rally on May 15, local journalists said today. He told the rally that gay people had 24 hours to leave the country. He promised "stricter laws than Iran" on homosexuality and said he would "cut off the head" of any gay person found in The...
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Tuesday, May 20
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Source: Reuters , Agenzia Italia ROME -- Italy's new minister for equal opportunities has angered rights groups by refusing to back a "Gay Pride" march because, she says, gays no longer suffer discrimination in Italy. Mara Carfagna said in comments published on Monday she would not back the June gay pride event in Bologna "because 'Gay Prides' are pointless." "Homosexuality is no longer a problem, at least not the way the organizers of these demos would have us believe," she said. "Gay Pride's real aim is official recognition for homosexual couples...
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Friday, May 16
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Source: KOCO-TV , Tulsa World Kern's anti-gay rant OKLAHOMA CITY -- State Rep. Sally Kern has been out of the news lately, but decided to refresh her anti-gay image Thursday with a press release and interviews criticizing a lobby day for workplace fairness. She objected that "radical homosexual rights groups'' that planned a national day on Thursday to promote workplace fairness based on job performance. Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said Oklahomans who support what she calls "traditional families" need to get more involved in policy fights "or we will cede the victory...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: WPTY TV , ACLU press release MEMPHIS, TN -- A Memphis high school principal who "outed" two gay high school students in September 2007 violated the students' constitutional right to freedom of association, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today. The ACLU said Daphne Beasley, the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School, publicly told teachers and staff over the school's intercom system that she wanted the names of all student couples, "hetero and homo," because she wanted to monitor them personally to prevent students from engaging in...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Hollywood Reporter , Variety Asia HONG KONG – Singapore regulators have fined state TV broadcaster MediaCorp TV Channel 5 for what the regulators said was a show "promoting homosexuality". MediaCorp TV Channel 5 has been fined S$15,000 (US$11,072) by the Media Development Authority (MDA) for airing an episode of the series, "Find and Design" that it saw as "normalizing" and "promoting" a gay lifestyle. In the episode concerned, aired January 13, the host helped a gay couple to transform their game room into a new nursery for their adopted baby. "The...
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Thursday, April 24
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Source: Gulf Daily News BAHRAIN'S gay community, human rights activists, and foreign embassies were furious yesterday over a parliamentary campaign to stamp out homosexuality, reports Gulf Daily News , an English-language newspaper in Bahrain. MPs this week demanded that the Interior Ministry stop granting residence permits to foreign homosexuals and that it deport any that are already in the country, as soon as they are detected. Under the proposals, according to a report in Gulf Daily News , students could soon be spied on as part of what some MPs envision as a campaign to "stamp out"...
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Thursday, April 24
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Source: Naperville Sun The third time was the charm for a Neuqua Valley High School student who wants to express his sentiments on homosexuality by wearing a “Be Happy, Not Gay” T-shirt to class. Neuqua sophomore Alex Nuxoll had twice filed for an injunction that would suspend what his anti-gay activist lawyers claimed is “the school’s policy that allows speech in favor of homosexual conduct, but bans speech critical of homosexual conduct.” And twice courts had denied that request. But on Wednesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit reversed the lower courts’ rulings against Nuxoll,...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: AFP via News24.com In what AFP describes as a "bizarre interview" the disgraced former manager of an Italian soccer team has hit out against gay players in the European league. "A homosexual cannot do the job of a footballer," former Juventus managing director Luciano Moggi said during a Monday television interview. "The football world is not designed for them, it's a special atmosphere, one in which you stand naked under the showers." Moggi is being tried for a variety of corruption offences during his time in charge of the Turin team that's usually...
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Wednesday, April 16
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Source: Journal Record (Oklahoma City) Kern's anti-gay rant Rep. Sally Kern's now-infamous anti-gay speech to a state Republican gathering have had repercussions to the state's bottom line as businesses considering relocation to the state express concern, an Oklahoma newspaper reports. Staubauch Co., a San Francisco Bay-area financial services company, has not yet ruled out Oklahoma City for a major office relocation, a vice president of a real estate search firm confirmed, but a consultant hired by the company was troubled by Kern’s comments during a recent visit to the city, a chamber...
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Wednesday, April 09
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Group releases audio tape of its meeting with Kern Source: PFAG blog Kern's anti-gay rant After Kern disagreed with PFLAG's characterization of a meeting she'd had with Oklahoma PFLAG members, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) has released the full 40-minute audio of the meeting. The un-edited audio was posted in five parts to PFLAG's section on YouTube after Kern insisted the organization had misrepresented her statements to reporters following the March 27 sit-down. After the meeting, which was positively characterized by PFLAG members as helpful, Kern...
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Tuesday, April 08
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Source: The Age , Advocate (Tasmania) A town in the Australian island state of Tasmania is up for sale, and gay rights activists say homophobia is to blame. Property developer Stephen Roche had plans to transform the spectacular ramshackle town of Penguin, on Tasmania's north-west coast, into an exclusive holiday spot. Just an hour by air from Melbourne, via the nearby town of Burnie, the town of 3000 was to become the "Noosa of the South". But Roche's development dreams were tainted last year after he was subject to death threats and a mail campaign that urged residents to say...
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Monday, April 07
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Source: Associated Press via Kansas City Star , KTKA TV BALTIMORE -- A federal judge has issued liens against a fundamentalist Kansas church and ordered two of its members to post cash bonds while they appeal a $5 million judgment resulting from the church’s protest at a military funeral. The judge wants the church to pay up after protesting at Maryland soldier Matthew Snyder's funeral. Snyder's father sued Westboro and won $5 million. Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, 20, was killed in Iraq in March 2006. The church was ordered to post bond of more than $500,000 in property. "I...
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Sunday, April 06
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Source: Xtra.ca , Globe and Mail , CTV News , Saskatchewan Star Phoenix A tape made 17 years ago that shows several Canadian politicians making homophobic, sexist, and racist remarks and innuendoes continues to rile politics in Canada with several newspapers running editorials and columns about the incident. A poll taken for a TV network indicates that the incident could erode support for Canada's ruling party, the Conservatives. Xtra , a national gay newspaper in Canada, noted that the incident highlights some of the differences between politics in Canada and the United States. While homophobic...
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Friday, April 04
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Source: Alpha.lt A European ministers' forum has said public rallies by Lithuanian sexual minorities groups cannot be quashed simply because some people are prejudiced against their choice of lifestyle, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reported Thursday. The Strasbourg-based Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe made the statement after hearing a complaint against Vilnius mayor Juozas Imbrasas by a lawmaker from Luxembourg, according to the newspaper. Jean Huss, a member of the CoE's Parliamentary Assembly, accused Imbrasas of stifling the freedom of expression of sexual minorities groups...
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Friday, April 04
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Source: Dallas Morning News by columnist Jacquielynn Floyd This is embarrassing. All this time I've been pounding the tom-toms about how Texans are unfairly stereotyped, how this area isn't the festering hive of bigotry that some would have you believe. We are reasonable and enlightened people, I have said. The notion that we're a bunch of intolerant backwoods barbarians is an imbecilic stereotype, I have said. Then somebody reportedly goes and wages an ugly, anonymous e-mail campaign against a Plano City Council candidate because he happens to be gay. And somebody on the Collin County...
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Thursday, April 03
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Source: CTV , Canadian Press via Chronicle Journal , CBC REGINA -- A Saskatchewan Conservative MP as well as the province’s premier were quick to apologize Thursday after the release of a 16-year-old videotape that contained sexist, racist and homophobic comments. "I just want to publicly say that I am truly, truly sorry. I’m ashamed for the comments," member of Parliament Tom Lukiwski said in Ottawa. A flush-faced Lukiwski offered his apologies to reporters in Ottawa on Thursday, but would not answer questions on whether he would resign. "If I could take those comments back, I would...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Associated Press , The Oklahoman , KSBI TV Kern's anti-gay rant OKLAHOMA CITY -- More than 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Wednesday in support of a state legislator who has been widely criticized for anti-gay remarks caught in a YouTube audio clip . Republican state Rep. Sally Kern was denounced by gay and lesbian groups after she was recorded telling a recent gathering of fellow Republicans outside the Capitol that homosexuality poses a bigger threat to the nation than terrorism. Link: Local TV coverage of rally Kern was cheered Wednesday when she told the crowd that...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Manchester Union Leader RINDGE, NH -- Police and Franklin Pierce University officials are investigating a number of anti-Semitic and anti-gay pamphlets in residents' mailboxes along with separate reports of graffiti swastikas in student dorms and a classroom on campus. The flyers in town mailboxes, which also contain some anti-gay language, could be related to the formation of a gay and lesbian club at Conant High School in neighboring Jaffrey, according to Rindge Police Chief Michael Sielicki. He said posters at the school promoting the group have been torn down, and he suspects the...
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Tuesday, April 01
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Source: Dallas Morning News The Collin County Commissioners Court has scrapped a plan to discuss the employment status of Justin Nichols, a Plano City Council candidate who said his job as coordinator of the county's teen court is at risk because he is openly gay. Background in Qnews : One gay candidate and another who supports him become right-wing targets The change came a day after Mr. Nichols alleged that Commissioner Jerry Hoagland had asked the panel to consider firing Mr. Nichols. Mr. Hoagland declined to comment Tuesday, saying he planned to discuss the issue further with the county...
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Tuesday, April 01
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune , Deseret News , Daily Herald Mormon anti-gay activist Stephen Graham tells a small audience in American Fork, Utah that gay people are dangerous photo: Daily Herald AMERICAN FORK -- Standard of Liberty didn't get its audience before American Fork High School's PTSA as scheduled last Thursday. That didn't stop it from taking a presentation to the American Fork Library Monday night, however - nor did the presence of two representatives from the Utah Pride Center, who listened quietly in preparation for an April 9 response meeting they will host in the same library...
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Tuesday, April 01
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Source: Dallas Morning News , Dallas Voice Plano, Tex. -- An openly gay Plano City Council candidate says his job with Collin County is in jeopardy because of his sexual orientation. The county Commissioners Court has tentatively scheduled an April 15 public hearing to discuss Justin Nichols' status as coordinator of the county's teen court program, commissioners said. Update in Qnews : Dallas-area county backs off; Won't review gay employee's job status An incumbent running to retain her seat on the county commission charges that the whole issue is part of an attempt by a right...
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Saturday, March 29
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Source: The Oklahoman Kern's anti-gay rant Concerned with reports that her anti-gay stance had softened slightly, Rep. Sally Kern told The Oklahoman Friday she won't meet again with members of a group supporting gay and lesbian rights, because the organization misstated her views. Several reports after a Thursday meeting between Kern and members of Oklahoma City chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) had indicated that the Oklahoma City lawmaker might have slightly softened her anti-gay stance and might consider voting for an anti-discrimination law that would...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune , Deseret News , KUTV American Fork, Utah -- A Thursday night presentation by an anti-gay campaigner was canceled after the Utah Pride Center and some Utah County residents alleged a presentation on the meeting agenda would have stigmatized and vilified gays and lesbians. The presentation was to have been sponsored by the American Fork High School PTSA. The meeting was to have included one presentation on pornography and another on gays and lesbians by Stephen Graham of Standard of Liberty, "an LDS-oriented educational corporation which exists to raise awareness of...
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