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Source: AFP , B92 , Associated Press , Amnesty International press release SARAJEVO -- Bosnia's first-ever gay festival opens this week amid fears of violence, with homophobia overriding usual divisions among the country's wartime foes -- Muslims, Serbs, and Croats. Fears ahead of the Sarajevo...

Source: Deutsche Welle , Radio Netherlands , Associated Press via IHT , Irish Times , Belfast Telegraph Amsterdam Pride Canal Parade, 2008 Water guns photo by CBImages, Flickr   Flags photo by Joseph111, Flickr An estimated half-million people turned out this weekend for  Amsterdam's 13th...

Source: Belfast Telegraph , Guardian , Times (London) A leading gay rights activist has raised the temperature in the row over homosexuality by claiming there was evidence King Billy, a revered historical figure for unionists in Northern Ireland, had male lovers. Claims that the warrior monarch, portrayed...

Source: Irish Times , Belfast Telegraph The organizers of a gay pride parade in Belfast were today urged to ensure that there will be no repeat of the controversy surrounding last year's event when a participant displayed a placard suggesting Jesus was gay. The Northern Ireland Parades Commission...

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: 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: Moscow Times , Telegraph (London) , Associated Press , AFP According to AFP, the banner briefly unfurled near the Kremlin calls for "Rights for Gays and Lesbians. Condemn the Moscow Mayor's Homophobia" photo: Moscow Times Moscow -- Gay rights activists protested in defiance of a...

Source: Deutsche Welle, Associated Press via IHT , UK Gay News Gay Pride demonstrators were allowed to march on a street in Riga this year. Photos: UK Gay News Protesters with Russian-language signs and bizarre condom costumes separated from Pride demonstrators by a cordon of police Photo: UK Gay News...

Source: Reuters via Washington Post , Xinhua via People's Daily , Birmingham News Around 200 gay activists marched through Bucharest, Romania on Saturday in what news service Reuters calls a "heavily policed pride parade." A US mayor, meanwhile, echoed the action of several eastern European...