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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: AFP via News24.com In what AFP describes as a "bizarre interview" the disgraced former manager of an Italian soccer team has hit out against gay players in the European league. "A homosexual cannot do the job of a footballer," former Juventus managing director Luciano Moggi...

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: Scotsman , Press Association , The Herald , Times (London) A Catholic bishop remained defiant after he was condemned for claiming the gay community had launched a is a "huge and well-orchestrated conspiracy" against Christian values. Bishop of Motherwell Joseph Devine said there was...

Source: Times (London) THE Dutch were debating the limits of freedom of expression last week after an artist who photographed gay men wearing masks of the prophet Muhammad was forced into hiding and her work removed from a museum exhibit. Speaking on the telephone from an unspecified location in the...

Source: Guardian A Spanish clergyman is to be investigated after complaints that he is holding seminars which aim to "rehabilitate homosexuals". Protestant minister Marcos Zapata, head of an organisation running youth centres for troubled children in Galicia, prompted the row after reports...