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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: 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: 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: Advocate , Reuters via Boston Globe ATHENS -- The top prosecutor in Greece has vowed to stop it, but the mayor of the Aegean island city of Tilos says he'll soon officiate at the wedding of at least one gay couple. Couples who have found a legal loophole to hold the first gay weddings in...

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: 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. Qnews update: Court: 'Lesbian' not just for Islanders The two Lesbos inhabitants...

Source: Daily Mail London -- A gay airport security guard is in line for a £30,000 payout after a female colleague thrust her breasts against him and pestered him for sex. Allwyn Rondeau, 46, made it clear to Lucy Chilton that he was homosexual and not interested in her after she told other staff she...

Source: Irish Times , Irish Independent , Press Association , RTE News Dublin -- The Dublin High Court has ruled that a lesbian couple living together in a long-term committed relationship with a child can be regarded as a de facto family enjoying rights under the European Convention on Human Rights...

Source: BBC News , Bloomberg , Associated Press via Boston Globe A gay man in Germany may be entitled to his dead partner's pension following a ruling by the highest court in the EU. Tadao Maruko's partner died in 2005 but the pension fund refused him a widower's pension and the case was...

Source: PinkNews Kiev, Ukraine -- Kiev's public prosecutor is targeting a well-regarded gay newspaper under laws banning the distribution of pornography, while newspaper kiosks across the city openly sell explicit erotic heterosexual magazines. Since 2003 Nash Mir, the oldest Ukrainian LGBT human...