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Sri Lanka hosts Asia/Pacific HIV conference
2007-08-22 00:00:00 Thousands of government officials and health care workers from across Asia are meeting in Sri Lanka for an international conference aimed at ensuring the AIDS epidemic does not worsen in the region. ... Read more! More About: Pacific , Ferenc , Conference
Gay rights ruling hinges on Howard
2007-08-22 00:00:00 THE federal cabinet is split before deliberations today over whether same-sex couples should have the same legal and financial rights as heterosexual couples.... Read more! More About: Rights , Gay Rights , Howard , Ruling
What Happened To South Africa?s Pro-Gay Politics
2007-08-22 00:00:00 Once the darling of liberal democracy, South Africa ain’t living up to the hype. Besides failing to properly investigate allegedly anti-gay murders, the nation’s United Nations representatives recently abstained from a vote affirming gay rights groups’ involvement in the international body. ... Read more! More About: Politics , South Africa , Poli
Ugandan Anti-Gays Loud, Not-So-Proud
2007-08-22 00:00:00 Uganda’s homo haters were up in arms earlier today. About 100 anti-gay activists took to a rugby field in Kampala to protest the rise of a gay rights group in the east African nation. ... Read more! More About: Gays , Loud , Anti , Proud
Legal Battle For Same-Sex Marriage Advances In California
2007-08-21 00:00:00 (San Francisco, California ) Attorneys for same-sex couples seeking the right to marry in California on Friday submitted answers to a series of questions posed earlier this year by the state Supreme Court on the legal ramifications of the case. ... Read more! More About: Marriage , Legal , Same-Sex Marriage , Battle
Marrying Same Sex Like Marrying Corpse Court Told
2007-08-21 00:00:00 (Providence, Rhode Island) Lawyers for conservative groups have told Rhode Island’s highest court that a case involving a same-sex couple seeking a divorce should be thrown out because the state does not explicitly allow same-sex marriage. ... Read more! More About: Court , Told , Marrying
Brazil To Cover Costs Of Sex Reassignment Surgeries
2007-08-21 00:00:00 (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil ) Brazil’s public health system will begin providing free sex-change operations in compliance with a court order, the Health Ministry said Friday.... Read more! More About: Cover , Costs , Geri , Erie
Bush Official Praises South Africa Controversial AIDS Plan
2007-08-21 00:00:00 (Johannesburg, South Africa ) The top U.S. health official praised South Africa ’s new national AIDS plan on Sunday, but sidestepped questions about the dismissal of a deputy minister seen as a driving force behind the country’s program. ... Read more! More About: Bush , Controversial
Two Former Prime Ministers To Attend Canadian Gay Politician's Wedding
2007-08-17 00:00:00 (Halifax, Nova Scotia) It may be known for its breathtaking views of the Minas Basin and the sheer cliffs of Blomidon, but a quiet corner of Nova Scotia has become the setting for an historic political first that some say will further affirm gay rights. ... Read more! More About: Wedding , Canadian , Ministers , Poli , Prime
Study into why gay men avoid condoms despite rising HIV rates
2007-08-17 00:00:00 Researchers want to find out why gay and bisexual men tend not to use condoms for sex despite the trebling of new HIV cases in New Zealand in the past seven years. ... Read more! More About: Study , Condoms , Rates , Avoid , Rate
Study of gay brothers may find clues about sexuality
2007-08-16 00:00:00 In Gregg Mierow’s family, there were six boys, brothers who grew into two groups as they reached maturity: Three are gay, and three are straight.... Read more! More About: Study , Brothers , Find , Sexuality , Clues
Amsterdam Now World Leader in anti-Gay Violence
2007-08-16 00:00:00 THE HAGUE, 15/08/07 - Anti -gay violence is more structural in Amsterdam than anywhere else in the world, according to Boris Dittrich of human rights organisation Human Rights Watch. “You can certainly state that Amsterdam’s image of gay capital is in a shambles", he stated in newspaper De Telegraaf.... Read more! More About: World , Violence , Lead
Singapore Gays Defy Govt, Enjoy Day In Park
2007-08-16 00:00:00 No holding Singapore ’s queens back. The government may have banned the gay pride-flavored picnic at the Botanical Gardens, but about a hundred homies gathered there anyway. So, did Singapore sink into the earth? Did the four horsemen come charging from behind a dark cloud? Did women and children’s heads explode at the sight of all the gays? No. In fact, things were surprisingly - gasp! - normal!... Read more! More About: Enjoy , Gays , Park , Govt
Lessons on homosexuality in the classroom
2007-08-16 00:00:00 After five years, one legal defeat and a challenge on the way, Montgomery County, Md., is at the frontier of sex education in the United States. This fall, barring last-minute court action, the county will offer lessons on homosexuality in its 8th- and 10th-grade health education courses.... Read more! More About: Homosexuality , Lessons , Ality
Parents use Facebook to screen for gay roommates
2007-08-16 00:00:00 Parents are increasingly screening the Facebook profile of their kids’ future college roommates, and are asking schools to change the assignment based upon what they discover online.... Read more! More About: Screen , Parents , Cree , Parent
Amsterdam Coppers To Play Gay
2007-08-16 00:00:00 Spurred by a sharp rise in anti-gay attacks, the city’s crime stoppers are mulling new, covert methods of curbing homo-haters:... Read more! More About: Play , Amsterdam
Iran Spares Gay Teens Their Lives
2007-08-16 00:00:00 The Iran ian government’s got quite an anti-gay reputation. And for good reason: the execute gay people. By some miracle, however, at least one Iranian judge manifested a heart and spared two gay teens their lives. ... Read more! More About: Teens , Lives , Spar , Ares
Vienna competes for gay tourists
2007-08-16 00:00:00 Famous for its waltz, its cafes and its classical music, Vienna is pushing for a bigger slice of the lucrative gay tourist trade this summer with its “Queer Guide” to the city.... Read more! More About: Tourists , Tourist
Poll: New Jerseyans favor gay marriage
2007-08-16 00:00:00 TRENTON, N.J. - Twice as many New Jerseyans “would be fine” with allowing gay couples to marry as would be upset if lawmakers enacted a marriage equality law, according to a new poll. ... Read more! More About: Marriage , Gay Marriage , Poll , Favor
"Desperate" finds its gays
2007-08-14 00:00:00 It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: Desperate Housewives‘ higher-powers has cast the sudster’s gay couple!... Read more! More About: Gays , Rate
Thousands at 6th Tokyo Pride
2007-08-14 00:00:00 Nearly 3,000 people took their pride of being gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender to the streets of Tokyo Saturday and led the annual Pride Parade. ... Read more!
Oz Gays March For Right To Marry
2007-08-14 00:00:00 (Sydney, Australia) Hundreds of gays and lesbians staged a noisy demonstration in Australia’s largest city, denouncing the government of Prime Minister John Howard and demanding the right to marry. ... Read more! More About: Gays , March , Marry
Thailand Mulls Names Of Choice For Transsexuals
2007-08-14 00:00:00 (Bangkok) Mr., Mrs. or Ms.? Thailand may soon let people who have had a sex change officially alter their title, too. ... Read more! More About: Choice , Choi , Names , Tran
Malaysia's First Openly Gay Pastor Appeals For Acceptance
2007-08-13 00:00:00 (Kuala Lumpur) Mala y sia’s first openly gay Christian pastor conducted a controversial worship service Sunday, calling on mainstream churches not to discriminate against gays. ... Read more! More About: Acceptance , Pastor , Accept
Italian Politician Calls For Ethnic Cleansing Of Gays
2007-08-13 00:00:00 (Rome) A call by the deputy mayor of Treviso for the ethnic cleansing of gays from the region, in the north of Italy, has sparked a mass demonstration. ... Read more! More About: Calls , Italian , Gays , Ethnic , Politician
N.J. district reinstates school play about gay student's death
2007-08-13 00:00:00 OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. - The curtain will go up this fall at Ocean Township High School on a play about the death of a gay college student. ... Read more! More About: Play , District , Death , Strict
Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill Does Not Limit Free Speech
2007-08-12 00:00:00 The religious right ran a full-page ad in USA Today last week repeating the falsehood that the hate-crimes bill named for Matthew Shepard, now before the U.S. Senate, limits religious speech, particularly silencing those who believe that faith demands condemnation of homosexual people.... Read more! More About: Free , Hate , Free Speech , Hate Crimes , Crimes
Kucinich Campaign Headquarters Attacked Following Gay Forum
2007-08-12 00:00:00 (Cleveland, Ohio) Cleveland police are investigating vandalism at the presidential campaign headquarters of Denis Kucinich that occurred hours after he appeared on the LOGO/HRC presidential forum Thursday night. ... Read more! More About: Campaign , Forum , Headquarters , Attacked
Bill Richardson: Gay is a Choice
2007-08-11 00:00:00 New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson stunned many with his response to a question from rock singer Melissa Etheridge — one of three panelists questioning the candidates — about whether he thinks “homosexuality is a choice or is it biological.”... Read more! More About: Choice , Choi
Fled Nicaragua Over Gay Persecution Canada Orders Man Deported
More articles from this author:2007-08-11 00:00:00 (Toronto, Ontario) A Nicaragua n national who fears persecution in his homeland because of his sexual orientation was ordered deported Thursday by Canada ’s Immigration and Refugee Board - a decision his lawyer said came as a “huge surprise.'’ ... Read more! More About: Persecution , Orders , Cara 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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