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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...

Source: Scotland on Sunday Glasgow, Scotland -- A gay asylum seeker who fears torture and death if he is deported to Syria, where homosexuality is illegal, is waiting to hear if this week's appeal for leave to stay in Scotland will be granted. At a tribunal that met to consider his case Tuesday,...

Source: Guardian's 'Comment is free' by Peter Tatchell [Peter Tatchell is a human rights campaigner, and a member of the queer rights group OutRage! and the left wing of the Green party. He is the Green Party's parliamentary candidate for Oxford East.] George Galloway, the Leftwing member...

Source: AKI - Adnkronos Rome, 25 Feb.(AKI) - Human rights groups scheduled a protest in front of the British Embassy in Rome on Monday, aimed at drawing attention to the plight of a 19-year old Iranian gay man. Seyed Mehdi Kazemi is scheduled to be deported back to his native Iran where he faces the...