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When Aussie diver, Matthew Mitcham takes to the pool next Monday he wants to be know for his performance and not because he is gay. “I just want to be known as the Australian diver who did really well at the Olympics.”
Mitcham hadn’t planned to make a statement by comming out. It happend during an interview in May when […]

An ad campaign recently launched to promote a London based gay tour operator is coming under fire from South Carolina Senator David Thomas.
Marketing agency Out Now Consulting created travel posters stating, “South Carolina is so gay.” Under the phrase is a picture of a historic South Carolina home, as well phrases boasting their gay beaches as well as […]

Three residents of the island of Lesbos are suing a Greek gay rights group for the use of the word lesbian in its name, say that it is an insult to the island’s identity.
Known as a major tourist destination among gay women, the island of Lesbos is also known as Mytilini, home to Sappho, the […]

Since Raul Castro became the President of Cuba, it has been his daughter, Mariela Castro who has promised to push through positive changes for the country. She has been lobbying the government to adopt what would be the most liberal gay and transsexual rights in Latin America.
Castro has worked hard to change the misconception about minority groups in Cuba as the head […]

Since Israel decriminalized homosexuality in 1988 gay couples have gained access to most federal rights, and given the same benefits as straight employees.
Now a ruling by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz will give gay couples living in Israel full adoption rights, overturning the previously law stating that couples could only adopt if the child was biologically […]

The Human Rights Watch is claiming that groups of men are being arrested in Cairo, tortured, given HIV tests without their consent and are handcuffed to hospital beds for 23 hours a day if they test positive for the virus.
Other men are being charged and even convicted of “habitual debauchery,” which refers to homosexual acts and […]

Hungary’s Registered Partnership Act was approved by Parliament this week, paving the way for same-sex couples to enter into legally recognized unions.
The law, set to go into effect in January 2009 gives gay and lesbian couples almost identical rights as heterosexual married couples such as joint tax filing, next of kin status in addition to […]

During a graduation speech in his native country, Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia, announced that he is cutting ties with his adopted daughter because she is a lesbian.
Sen, is now seeking to have his daughter formally disowned so that she can not claim any inheritance. “We are concerned that she might one day cause […]

Since the U.S. military invasion in 2003, exiled resident, Ali Hili says, “Life in Iraq is now hell for all LGBT people; no one can be openly gay and alive.”
Hili, who now resides in London, started Iraq LGBT in 2005, an organization that set up safe houses for LGBT residents in Iraq. Hili claims, “Homosexuality […]