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Wednesday, October 08
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"Gay rights activists in Russia have managed to secure permission to hold a picket against a homophobic politician in the city of Tambov. City authorities approved the protest yesterday, the first time a gay public event has been authorized...
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Friday, October 03
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"Authorities in Saint Petersburg, Russia have effectively shut down the first-ever gay film festival as it was set to open Thursday. The Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival was scheduled to open on Thursday, but now appears postponed...
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Monday, September 29
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The New Yorker gets all political again with this take on Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's ridiculous assertion that her home state of Alaska's proximity to Russia qualifies as foreign policy experience - the very same...
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Friday, September 26
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"Russia is to build new space and missile defence shields and put its armed forces on permanent combat alert, President Medvedev announced today… The announcement puts Russia in a new arms race with the United States, which has infuriated...
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Friday, September 26
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Anderson Cooper has seen it all - war, famine, drought: the works. Still, the veteran journalist seems absolutely flabbergasted by Republican vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin's wild - and nonsensical - assertion that her role as Alaska's...
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Thursday, September 25
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From the second half of Katie Couric's interview with vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, airing tonight:
COURIC: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?
PALIN...
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Friday, September 12
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If you're not scared of Sarah Palin, you should be. The Republican vice-presidential hopeful told Charlie Gibson last night that we should "keep an eye" on Russia, whose recent invasion of Georgia has caused some tension with the...
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Thursday, August 14
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I caught this yesterday afternoon on CNN, and nearly spit out my drink. I'm glad somebody else did too. John McCain on the Georgian invasion: "I am interested in good relations between the United States and Russia. But in the... Read more...
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Tuesday, August 12
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NANCY PELOSI: The House Speaker talks to Tavis Smiley on Putin and Bush at the Olympics. MCCAIN CONDEMNS: Russia's invasion of Georgia. Would McCain go to war with Russia? WILLY WONKA: A re-cut trailer for the classic film which pushes... Read...
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Wednesday, July 09
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“A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday. St Petersburg’s Channel Five said the man’s wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get...
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Monday, July 07
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Russian gay activists to picket Iranian Embassy in Moscow. Nikolai Alexeyev: "We need to continuously remind the state authorities that the death penalty must be abolished." Line forms a week early for 3G iPhone... Ryan Gosling makes an...
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Tuesday, June 24
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Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis forbids liberal Catholic church from holding gay pride prayer service: "St. Joan of Arc Church in Minneapolis has held the event for several years in conjunction with the annual Twin Cities Pride...
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Friday, June 20
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Not so long ago we heard about out-of-state anti-gay "christian" organizations throwing in the towel, in Oregon. Earlier today we heard about a Maine anti-gay "christian" organization (Christian Civic League) throwing in the...
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Friday, June 20
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“A Russian spa town has unveiled a monument to enema treatments in the guise of an 800-pound bronze syringe bulb held up by three angels. ‘There is no kitsch or obscenity,’ said the spa’s director, Alexander Kharchenko. ‘An...
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Thursday, June 19
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Bush awards former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair and homophobe Peter Pace the Congressional Medal of Freedom. Will Smith superhero movie re-branded by construction worker in London's Leicester Square. Sick: Brutal trans-bashing by Memphis police...
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Tuesday, June 17
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Gay panic: Trial to begin for Cesar Israel Villazano in Florida. He shot a man wearing a mini-skirt and high heels in the back of the head for making a sexual advance: "Villazano told police he was embarrassed because he... Read more...
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Friday, June 13
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This Russian soldier's performance (well, who knows if he's even Russian or a soldier) appeared on LiveLeak yesterday. It's quite something. Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP (warning NSFW)... Read more...
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Wednesday, June 11
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“After illegal Gay Pride marches went ahead in Moscow earlier this month, homosexualist activists are condemning the Russian Orthodox Church for asserting Christian teaching on sexuality and suggesting that homosexual people do not have to...
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Monday, June 02
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Not all of Russian’s gays are proud of this weekend’s clandestine pride. Frighteningly plasticine singer Boris Moiseyev told a newspaper that while he thinks the nation’s gays should be able to march, the gays should basically...
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Monday, June 02
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Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov may have banned the gay pride parade, but that didn’t stop some tenacious activists from make their voice heard. Well, sort of. Since they weren’t permitted to march down the street, the gays took a creative...
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Monday, June 02
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Gay rights activists took to the streets in Moscow on Sunday, defying a ban by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Predictably, there was conflict, Agence France Presse reports: "The annual pride demonstration had been outlawed by... Luzhkov, who has...
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Friday, May 23
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A two-year campaign by activists came to a successful end yesterday when the Russian Health Ministry ended a ban on blood donation by gays, according to UK Gay News: "Tatyana Golikova, the Minister of Health and Social Development signed the...
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Friday, May 23
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While Moscow’s mayor continues coming down on gay peopel, Russia’s health minister proved that progress still exists in the post-Soviet nation: “The Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development has repealed the ban on blood...
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Tuesday, May 20
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This is pretty surreal. A meeting in Moscow of the Other Russia opposition coalition on Saturday was interrupted by a propellor-operated phallus as chess champion Garry Kasparov was speaking. According to waxy.org, "Kasparov is a leader of...
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Monday, May 19
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Not sure what's happening here, but this clip was uploaded today to the LiveLeak site. According to the poster: "This was recorded over the weekend. This gay guy was being teased about his choice of apparel or whatnot, resulting in... Read...
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Monday, May 19
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Activist Nikolai Alekseev staged a one-man picket of Moscow's General Prosecutor on Saturday, calling for the prosecution of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov for the illegal banning of gay pride activities. Authorities prevented a group picket of the...
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Monday, May 12
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According to Petrelis Files: "Gay activists in three U.S. cities will mobilize for vigils on May 16 and 17 for IDAHO, International Day Against Homophobia, and the focus will be to apply pressure on the Russian government to grant all necessary...
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Wednesday, May 07
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Activists held Russia's first "Day of Silence" in St. Petersburg, Russia last Saturday, taping their mouths shut and handing out literature in the city's Chernyshevskiy Park. UK Gay News reports: "For two hours, the participants...
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Monday, May 05
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Russia saw a few gay dust-ups this weekend. First, activists reported that men “dressed as rappers” attacked their inaugural Day of Silence celebration, kicking and beating them until coppers scared them off. Then, in a nod to Soviet...
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Thursday, May 01
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by Zachary Violette New England Blade The e-mail invite from the LGBT Club of the MIT Sloan School of Management was meant to celebrate the end of the Fall 2007 semester. The group never expected that it would result in a threatening anti-gay e...
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