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Source: AFP , Eurogames press release , Pink News Barcelona -- More than 5,000 athletes, gay and straight, from across Europe are converging on Barcelona for the Eurogames which get underway on Thursday in the Spanish port city, organizers said. The Olympics-style games are expected to attract more than...

Source: Reuters , Telegraph , e Yugoslavia ATHENS -- A Greek court last week ruled a gay rights group can use the word lesbian, saying people from the Aegean island of Lesbos did not have sole claim to the name. Three islanders from Lesbos filed a lawsuit against the Homosexual and Lesbian Community...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...