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Source: AFP , B92 , Associated Press , Amnesty International press release SARAJEVO -- Bosnia's first-ever gay festival opens this week amid fears of violence, with homophobia overriding usual divisions among the country's wartime foes -- Muslims, Serbs, and Croats. Fears ahead of the Sarajevo...

Source: Reuters , AFP NEW YORK -- A leading human rights group has appealed to Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to disavow his reported comments encouraging violence against gays. In an open letter to Jammeh, New York-based Human Rights Watch also said it was concerned about the arrest or questioning of...

Source: Voice of America , News24.com , PinkNews.com Human rights groups say Monday's arrest of two Spanish men in The Gambia for allegedly making homosexual advances is part of a continuing human rights problem in West Africa. "We are equally concerned with local Gambians who, as you know,...

Source: The Point (Banjul, Gambia) , Afrik.com , Associated Press via IHT Police in Gambia arrested two Spanish men last Friday for allegedly making what press reports call "homosexual proposals" to taxi drivers. Pere Joan, 56, and Juan Monpserratrusau, 54, were held at Kotu police station...

Source: News.com.au , BBC News ECCENTRIC Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has threatened to behead gays unless they leave the country, according to reports. "The Gambia is a country of believers ... sinful and immoral practices (such) as homosexuality will not be tolerated in this country," the...

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: Hollywood Reporter , Variety Asia HONG KONG – Singapore regulators have fined state TV broadcaster MediaCorp TV Channel 5 for what the regulators said was a show "promoting homosexuality". MediaCorp TV Channel 5 has been fined S$15,000 (US$11,072) by the Media Development Authority...

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: 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: The Age , Advocate (Tasmania) A town in the Australian island state of Tasmania is up for sale, and gay rights activists say homophobia is to blame. Property developer Stephen Roche had plans to transform the spectacular ramshackle town of Penguin, on Tasmania's north-west coast, into an...