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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: Gulf Daily News BAHRAIN'S gay community, human rights activists, and foreign embassies were furious yesterday over a parliamentary campaign to stamp out homosexuality, reports Gulf Daily News , an English-language newspaper in Bahrain. MPs this week demanded that the Interior Ministry stop...

Source: Xtra.ca , Globe and Mail , CTV News , Saskatchewan Star Phoenix A tape made 17 years ago that shows several Canadian politicians making homophobic, sexist, and racist remarks and innuendoes continues to rile politics in Canada with several newspapers running editorials and columns about the incident...

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: CTV , Canadian Press via Chronicle Journal , CBC REGINA -- A Saskatchewan Conservative MP as well as the province’s premier were quick to apologize Thursday after the release of a 16-year-old videotape that contained sexist, racist and homophobic comments. "I just want to publicly say that...