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Thursday, June 26
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Source: Times of India , Deccan Herald SILIGURI, India -- It's a bizarre story that will probably become the stuff of jokes, but more significantly becomes yet another in an unfortunate series showing the sometimes tragic effect of societal repression of LGBT expression. A resident of Rangapani, India near Siliguri filed a police complaint against another local man with whom he said he'd had a gay relationship. Dipu Ghosh told police that he was encouraged by his partner, Ajit Mondal, to undergo for a sex change. Ghosh said in his complaint that Mondal had promised to marry him after the...
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Wednesday, June 25
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Source: Bangkok Post 'Being a lesbian is tiring," Chantalak Raksayoo said in an inteview with Bangkok Post 's Outlook section, "but one should take pride in one's self. And I'm proud of who I am." Chantalak, 36, is a lesbian activist who believes in the power of media to create public awareness on gay and lesbian rights and, more importantly, to help gays and lesbians feel confident about themselves and to realise their rights to live their lives as equals in society. Chantalak is the founder of Sapaan, an alternative media source for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
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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: Jewish Telegraphic Agency , YnetNews , Ha'aretz Organizers of Jerusalem's annual gay pride march said they hope for less friction with the city's religious residents this year. The Open House in Jerusalem announced on Monday that the city's Pride Parade would take place on Thursday of next week, with the theme of "free love". This year marks the parade's seventh anniversary in Jerusalem, and it has become well-known for sparking annual controversy among the ultra-Orthodox communities in the city, YnetNews reports. "This year we expect the parade to be...
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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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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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Friday, June 06
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Source: YnetNews , Haaretz , Jerusalem Post Tel Aviv Gay Pride photo: by Yaron Brener for YnetNews More than a thousand people arrived at the Gan Meir Park in Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon to participate in the 10th Gay Pride Parade and to celebrate the gay community's struggle for equality. Organizers and local officials also christened a center for the gay community situated in the city's Meir park. "The center symbolizes an amazing turning point in the history of the gay community, and our activities will now have fertile ground from which to grow and flourish," Army Radio quoted...
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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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Thursday, June 05
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Source: ThinkSpain.com , Associated Press , DPA via EarthTimes BANJUL, Gambia -- The two Spanish tourists arrested in Gambia last weekend and charged with making "homosexual propositions" were released from custody last night. Their release followed a telephone conversation between Spanish Foreign Affairs minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos and a local diplomat yesterday evening, the website ThinkSpain.com reports, based on news items in Spanish media. Immediately after their release, Spanish diplomats arranged for the two Catalan tourists, who have been identified as PJ (56) and JM (54)...
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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: Sydney Star Observer , The Age A gay paper in Australia reports that official discrimination against gay couples in Australian federal laws could be outlawed before next month despite parliamentary maneuvers by the opposition party. Other reports, however, say that the legislation could be delayed for months. The "Coalition" -- a group of the country's conservative parties -- last night vowed to delay any changes until all the proposed reforms are put before the Parliament, The Age newspaper reported. But Australian gay paper, Sydney Star Observer (SSO), reports that the possibility...
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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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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: News24.com , Reuters , Advocate Kampala -- Ugandan Police arrested a group of gay activists demanding the right to HIV/AIDS treatment at an international AIDS conference in Kampala on Wednesday. "Two young women and a man stormed the conference venue uninvited and we had to arrest them," senior police commander Byakagaba Abas told Reuters at the meeting in Kampala. South Africa's News24.com reports that hundreds of activists disrupted the morning plenary session of the conference, calling for rights, recognition, and access to services and funds extended to groups involved...
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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: 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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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: ABC News (Australia) , The Age Canberra -- It wasn't a marriage, or even a civil union, but Kevin Boreham and Edwin Ho became "partners for life" on the shores of Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin Monday. Mr Boreham, a university lecturer, and Mr Ho, a public servant, were the first same-sex couple to hold a commitment ceremony under new civil partnership laws for the the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). A small gathering of friends witnessed the historic event on Monday afternoon within view of federal parliament. It was the first ceremony of its kind to be held in the...
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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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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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Friday, May 30
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Source: Advocate , Reuters via Boston Globe ATHENS -- The top prosecutor in Greece has vowed to stop it, but the mayor of the Aegean island city of Tilos says he'll soon officiate at the wedding of at least one gay couple. Couples who have found a legal loophole to hold the first gay weddings in Greece are determined to go ahead with the services despite the threats from prosecutors and the wrath of the powerful Orthodox church. Supreme Court prosecutor Giorgos Sanidas intervened to stop a ceremony expected to take place this summer -- some reports say 'within 15 days' -- on east Aegean...
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Tuesday, May 27
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Source: Reuters , Arab News , Khaleej Times , The National Lt Gen Dahi Khalfan Tamim, the Dubai police chief, suggested yesterday that co-ed schooling could be the cause of cross-dressing. photo: Stephen Lock, The National DUBAI -- Calling it part of an "awareness campaign", police in Dubai have arrested several men and women for cross-dressing. Police claim the arrests are part of a campaign aimed mostly at young people to preserve the social values of the cosmopolitan Gulf Arab trade and tourism hub, newspapers reported on Monday. Police said most of those recently arrested were male...
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Monday, May 26
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Source: Deutsche Welle , New York Times , TopNews.in A memorial dedicated to gay men and lesbians persecuted and killed under the Nazis will be inaugurated on May 27, the Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany said. Germany’s culture minister, Bernd Neumann, and Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Wowereit, who is gay, are expected to attend the dedication ceremony Tuesday. Gay activists say the memorial is long overdue. This month marks the 75th anniversary of the series of raids and public book burnings in May 1933 with which the regime of Adolf Hitler began its crusade against homosexuality. Photos of Nazi...
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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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