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Source: ThinkSpain.com , Associated Press , DPA via EarthTimes BANJUL, Gambia -- The two Spanish tourists arrested in Gambia last weekend and charged with making "homosexual propositions" were released from custody last night. Their release followed a telephone conversation between Spanish...

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: ABC News (US) ABC News photo by Tony Karuma It's far from a comprehensive portrait, but ABC News (US) offers a few snapshots of gay life in a country where being gay is illegal -- Kenya. As part of a series on nightlife around the world, ABC's Dana Hughes reports from the the country's...

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: Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - When Ali started blogging that he was Sudanese and gay, he did not realize he was joining a band of African and Middle Eastern gays and lesbians who, in the face of hostility and repression, have come out online. Ali, who lists his home town as Khartoum but lives...

Source: Dispatch (South Africa) SCORES of anti-gay activists protested in Kampala yesterday minutes after Britain's Queen Elizabeth II opened the summit of Commonwealth heads of state. Demonstrators accused western countries of helping to spread the practice on the African continent. The biennial...