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Source: Malta Star , MaltaMedia News The ruling party in the tiny European island nation of Malta, located on an archipelago south of Sicily, is considering changes to the country's rent laws that have a gay rights group there calling foul. The changes proposed in a white paper released by the ruling...

Source: AFP , Reuters , Associated Press via IHT , The News (Pakistan) ISTANBUL -- A leading Turkish gay rights lobby group vowed Friday to fight a court ruling that ordered its closure after prosecutors accused it of breaching morality and family norms. A Turkish court closed Istanbul's only gay...

Source: The Guardian , PinkNews , Fyne Times A major survey was released this week in London that shows Britain's 3.6 million lesbian, gay and bisexual people see themselves confronted by huge barriers of prejudice at every level of society. The poll, commissioned by the equality charity Stonewall...

Source: PinkNews Kiev, Ukraine -- Kiev's public prosecutor is targeting a well-regarded gay newspaper under laws banning the distribution of pornography, while newspaper kiosks across the city openly sell explicit erotic heterosexual magazines. Since 2003 Nash Mir, the oldest Ukrainian LGBT human...

Source: Daily Mail Even by the standards of Blackpool on a Saturday night, they must have been a sight to behold - nine gay men and transsexuals, several wearing women's clothing. The men were, it seems safe to say, a broad-minded bunch. They are, however, unlikely to say the same of staff at Pizza...

Source: Hereford Times and Telegraph A GAY man refused a Church job because of his sexuality has been awarded compensation. John Reaney will receive £47,345 from the Diocese of Hereford having won an employment tribunal last June. Mr Reaney, 42, successfully claimed discrimination by the Bishop of Hereford...

Source: Times (London) A married mother of three has won thousands of pounds in compensation from a gay nightclub that discriminated against her because she is heterosexual. Sharon Legg, 33, who worked on the door at Dreams in Bournemouth, said that her manager had repeatedly called her derogatory names...