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Source: UK Gay News , UK Gay News Chisinau, Moldova -- Chisinau police stood aside and let extremist religious groups, members of the neo-fascist movement, “New Right”, and legionnaires prevent Sunday’s gay pride observance from going ahead, UK Gay News reports. Large, aggressive and well-coordinated...

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: UK Gay News CHISINAU, Moldova -- Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca has, once again, banned the Gay Pride parade in the Moldovan capital. The parade, part of a week-long "Rainbow over the Dniester" observance is scheduled to take place on Sunday, May 10, UK Gay News reports. But Pride organisers...

Source: The Local , Associated Press via Haaretz Berlin today renamed a promenade along the Spree River after Magnus Hirschfeld, a sex researcher and pioneer of the German gay rights movement. The Hirschfeld promenade is in the government quarter, diagonally across from the German chancellery. The city's...

Source: Pink News , The Age Conservative Boris Johnson is the new Mayor of London. Gay Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick came third. Paddick has seen the Lib Dem share of the vote slashed. Ken Livingstone, the first Mayor of London, well-known for his support for gay rights, came second. Johnson's...

Source: Monsters & Critics , AFP Two men were jailed for five years each today after being found guilty of a £50,000 ($100,000 USD) blackmail plot against a member of the royal family. Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan demanded the money for a set of recordings featuring "scandalous" remarks...

Source: Telegraph , Sun , Metro Anthony Morley, left -- once crowned Mr. Gay UK, was arrested after Damian Oldfield's body was found with a chunk of flesh missing from his leg photos via Daily Mail An advertising executive for the London gay lifestyle magazine Bent was found stabbed to death at the...

Source: Prague Post Well-known gay and lesbian rights activist Jiří Hromada has become the first openly gay candidate to run for the Senate in the Czech Republic. Nominated by the Green Party April 19, Hromada’s name will be on the ballot in the upcoming fall elections. Prague Post reports that at least...

Source: news.com.au Two residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have filed suit against a Greek LGBT activist group seeking to bar them from using the "L" part of the acronym -- Lesbian, news.com.au reports. The two Lesbos inhabitants filed the suit along with activist Dimitris Lambrou against...

Source: AFP , GayRussia.ru press release MOSCOW (AFP) — The Moscow mayor's office said on Wednesday it would not allow gay pride marches -- previously broken up by ultra-nationalists -- to take place on this year's May Day holiday. The announcement came as a gay rights leader said he planned...