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Source: News24.com , Reuters , Advocate Kampala -- Ugandan Police arrested a group of gay activists demanding the right to HIV/AIDS treatment at an international AIDS conference in Kampala on Wednesday. "Two young women and a man stormed the conference venue uninvited and we had to arrest them,"...

Source: HRC press release , Associated Press Washington, DC -- Calling it "first step toward establishing a nationwide set of standards to reduce discrimination and ensure quality hospital-based health care," two LGBT advocacy groups yesterday released a report that rates hospitals on a set...

Source: BBC News , Glasgow Evening Times , Press Association Gay activists today demanded of Scottish government chiefs that they be allowed to donate blood. Gay and bisexual men in the UK are banned from giving blood because transfusion chiefs believe it poses an increased HIV risk. Campaigners appeared...

Source: Independent Online , Times (South Africa) , Frost Illustrated , News24 Cape Town, South Africa -- The retired Archbishop of Cape Town and Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu paid glowing tribute Wednesday to anti-apartheid and gay rights activist Ivan Toms. He said Toms had been physically small...

Source: Associated Press via Seattle PI , Independent Online , Mail & Guardian Cape Town health director Ivan Toms after he was awarded the Order of the Baobab in Bronze. photo via Cape Times Cape Town, South Africa -- Ivan Toms, a South African anti-apartheid and gay rights activist who played a...

Source: New Republic , Stanford Daily Porn star and producer Michael Lucas spoke at Stanford last month about safe sex, but his neocon political views generated controversy both before and during the talk Stanford Daily photo by Mehmet Inonu About 50 students gathered last month at Stanford for a lively...

Source: Press release SANEPR.com Indian activist/journalist Ashok Row Kavi photo: Tribune India, 2003 The interview isn't currently available from the Indian lifestyle magazine's website , but according to a press release SUTRA magazine offers an interview with Ashok Row Kavi, described as being...

Source: The Age This explicit ad encouraging condom use is part of a series sponsored by Victorian AIDS Council FULL-PAGE images of men having sex will be splashed across gay newspapers in Melbourne today as part of a bold advertising campaign designed to stem rising HIV infections in Victoria. Four...

Source: Canada.com and CBC News Student groups are pressing Canadian Blood Services to end the agency's blood donor ban on sexually active gay men, despite the agency's 2007 decision to stick with the status quo. Canadian Federation of Students spokeswoman Amanda Aziz said the policy is outdated...

Source: Associated Press via Washington Blade (AP) The matter-of-fact display on prostitution was startling enough. Then, a large remote-controlled condom floated above the conference hall. Kay Warren, wife of pastor Rick Warren, wondered what she had gotten herself into. It was her first International...