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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: Deutsche Welle , New York Times , BBC News , AFP Defying threats of prosecution, the mayor of a remote Greek island performed the country’s first same-sex marriage on Tuesday. Tilos Mayor Tasos Aliferis performed the early morning civil ceremony between two men before hundreds of witnesses, including...

Source: Independent , Connexion , Times (London) Will a black American president shake hands one day with a gay president of France? Barack Obama has already taken strides towards reversing the conventional, racial wisdom of US politics. Bertrand Delanoë described by London's The Independent as "the...

Source: The Age , Times (London) BRITAIN has forged landmark new rights for lesbian or gay partners seeking legal recognition as parents. The House of Commons unexpectedly threw out proposals that would have required fertility clinics to consider a child's "need for a father" before providing...

Source: Reuters , Agenzia Italia ROME -- Italy's new minister for equal opportunities has angered rights groups by refusing to back a "Gay Pride" march because, she says, gays no longer suffer discrimination in Italy. Mara Carfagna said in comments published on Monday she would not back...

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: 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: Alpha.lt A European ministers' forum has said public rallies by Lithuanian sexual minorities groups cannot be quashed simply because some people are prejudiced against their choice of lifestyle, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reported Thursday. The Strasbourg-based Committee of Ministers of the...

Source: AP via IHT , Polskie Radio , theNews.pl , UK Gay News , EurActiv WARSAW, Poland -- A gay couple from New York, Brendan Fay and Thomas Moulton, whose wedding images were used in a recent TV address by Polish President Lech Kaczynski, arrived in Warsaw over the weekend. "We come here in the...

Source: Scotland on Sunday , GayNZ POLITICAL pressure is mounting on the UK Government to reverse its decision to deport a gay Syrian teenager from Scotland to his homeland, where he faces almost certain imprisonment and torture. The newspaper Scotland on Sunday reported last week that 19-year-old Jojo...