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Thursday, April 10
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Source: Reuters , Same Same CAIRO -- An Egyptian court on Wednesday convicted and jailed five men arrested on morals charges in what rights groups have described as an escalating crackdown on Egyptians living with HIV. Court sources said the men, four of whom are HIV-positive, were sentenced to three years in jail for the "habitual practice of debauchery", a charge rights groups say is used in Egypt to criminalize consensual homosexual sex acts. "These convictions are clearly based on ignorance and fear of AIDS rather than on any crime committed," said Hossam Bahgat, head of...
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Wednesday, February 20
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Source: AP via International Herald Tribune , YNet News , Arutz Sheva , Jerusalem Post JERUSALEM -- An Israeli lawmaker caused a tremor Wednesday when he linked homosexuality and earthquakes. Shlomo Benizri of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, addressed the subject in the course of a debate in the Knesset plenum on earthquake readiness. "I suggest that the Knesset inquire into how it can prevent sodomy and thus save us a lot of earthquakes," Benizri said. He said the way to stop the tremors was for parliament to reverse its trend of liberalizing laws concerning homosexuals. Two quakes...
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Wednesday, January 16
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Source: Sacramento Bee Trips to the park no longer will be X-rated, if police get their way in Citrus Heights -- a Sacramento County city northeast of the capital city. The Police Department has declared war on "cruising," or the practice of seeking anonymous gay trysts in public areas. Cruising has been a mainstay at many Sacramento area parks, according to law enforcement officials and Web sites dedicated to the practice. Among the most popular is Tempo Park, according to the Citrus Heights police and San Juan Recreation and Parks District officials. Tucked into a residential Citrus...
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Sunday, January 06
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Source: Seattle Times A new book on the late Seattle architect Lionel Pries goes a long way to restore some of the honor that once surrounded his name. Pries was one of the region's foremost architectural designers and instructors, an old-school Beaux Arts advocate who also led the way in Northwest modernism, designing some of the region's most distinctive and progressive houses in the 1930s to '50s. Pries (pronounced Prees) taught at the University of Washington during that time, helping shape the thinking and the skills of many of the Northwest's top architects. But after 30 years...
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Wednesday, December 26
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Source: UK Gay News MOSCOW, December 26, 2007 (GayRussia.ru) – Nikolai Alekseev, the organiser of Moscow Gay Pride, will be in court soon facing charges of slander and insult following his “outing” of a former State Duma (Parliament) deputy on live national television. The Moscow prosecutors department have completed criminal investigation against the Mr. Alekseev. The investigation was started after a complaint by former State Duma deputy Alexander Chuev, who accused the Pride organiser of slander and insults. Prosecutors today confirmed the accusation against Nikolai Alekseev based on Articles...
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Friday, December 21
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Source: CBS2 News INDIO, Calif. (CBS) ― A former Coachella Valley news anchor arrested last year in a sting targeting pedophiles Friday was placed on three years formal probation. Riverside County Superior Court Judge John Ryan also ordered 45-year-old Jim Philbrick to serve 90 days of home confinement with electronic monitoring and to perform 100 hours of community service. The judge also ordered Philbrick not to visit any Internet chat room where minors visit, nor have any conversation of a "sexual nature" with a minor. Philbrick reached a plea deal with prosecutors Nov. 7 in the midst...
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Saturday, November 10
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Source: Flint Journal CLAYTON TWP, Mich. - A gay rights group said it's investigating dozens of entrapment complaints involving police stings at freeway rest stops, including one on I-69 in the township. The Triangle Foundation said at least one person from the Clayton Township area has asked for help, although it wouldn't release details. "This is profiling," said Sean Kosofsky, policy director for the organization. "Heterosexuals are never targeted in public sex stings." The gay rights organization said the number of police sex stings seems to have increased in the...
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Thursday, November 08
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Source: MLive.com CLAYTON TWP, Mich. -- A gay rights group said it is investigating dozens of entrapment complaints involving police stings at freeway rest stops, including one on I-69 in the township. The Triangle Foundation said it's trying to help at least one person arrested at the Clayton Township rest area, although it wouldn't release details. "This is profiling," said Sean Kosofsky, policy director for the organization. "Heterosexuals are never targeted in public sex stings." The gay rights organization said the number of police sex stings seems to have increased...
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Tuesday, November 06
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Source: Associated Press via Southern Voice (includes material from The Advocate ) No one claimed responsibility Monday for automated phone calls made to Kentucky households purporting to be an endorsement of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Beshear by the "homosexual lobby." The calls don't identify who paid for the message, a potential violation of state election laws. However, spokesman Corey Bellamy said Monday the attorney general's office had received no complaints about the calls. The calls direct people to visit the Web site of the Fairness Campaign, an advocacy...
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Monday, November 05
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Source: Associated Press via International Herald Tribune KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) Police in Malaysia, where sodomy is a crime, broke up a gay sex party and arrested 37 men, including a Briton and a Chinese national, a senior official said Tuesday. Police, acting on a public tip-off, raided a fitness center in northern Penang island Sunday while a sex party was in progress and arrested the 37 men, aged between 20 and 45, said local police chief Azam Abdul Hamid. Apart from the two foreigners, all of the men are ethnic Chinese Malaysians including three who work at the center, he said. Police...
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Saturday, November 03
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Source: seaQwa Qnews from media reports DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- Daytona Beach News-Journal on Friday printed photographs and names of nine men arrested on misdemeanor charges by a large police team that ran a sting to find men who were coughing, sneezing, and tapping their feet in a local mall restroom. The story is identified as "News: Front Page" on the paper's website. The paper reports that a team of six officers from the Police Department's criminal suppression team joined forces with undercover officers from Volusia County Beach Patrol to nab the offenders from 10 a.m. to...
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Saturday, October 13
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ROME (AFP) — The Vatican has suspended a senior cleric who declared his homosexuality on a television programme, even though his face and voice were made unrecognisable, Italian media reported Saturday. "His superiors are treating this situation...
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Wednesday, October 10
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Okeechobee, Fla. -- The Okeechobee County School Board has banned so-called "sex-based" clubs, a move the ACLU has called another attack on members of the Gay-Straight Alliance of Okeechobee High School. In a unanimous vote Tuesday, school board...
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Monday, October 08
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AMERICAN IDOL star CLAY AIKEN is caught up in another gay controversy after parishioners at a church where he is set to perform a Christmas concert demanded assurances the singer isn't a homosexual. Aiken's sexuality hit the headlines last year...
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Saturday, October 06
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Miami Beach, Fla. -- A new attack flier hit Miami Beach voters' mailboxes Thursday and shook up the sleepy, four-person race to replace term-limited City Commissioner Matti Herrera Bower. The flier depics crossed-out images of a blond woman, a pink...
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Friday, September 28
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A Gay cop charged yesterday he has been persecuted with death threats and homophobic slurs in the NYPD. Officer Michael Harrington, a five-year veteran, said in a suit filed yesterday the hostility is so pervasive he cannot escape it - despite moving...
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Thursday, September 27
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, caused a stir at a Senate hearing this week when he repeated his view that gay sex is immoral and should not be condoned by the military. Pace, who retires next week, said he was...
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