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Source: Calcutta News , Time With roses in their hands and banners voicing their angst against the law which makes homosexuality a crime in India, Delhi's gay community will celebrate the 16th anniversary of its first public protest Monday. 'It was our Stonewall,' said Gautam Bhan, a city...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...

Source: Sydney Star Observer and SXNews Sydney Mardi Gras A group of 100 Christian ministers have declared they will march in this year's Sydney Mardi Gras to apologise for what they describe as the church’s unwelcoming attitude to gays and lesbians. “As ministers of various churches and denominations...