The Moscow government has blocked a lesbian couple’s marriage proposal. Russia’s gay activists have recently stepped up efforts to draw attention to homophobia in lieu of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Irina Fedotova and Irina Chapitko tried to marry at a register office in central Moscow but were told that Russian law only permitted heterosexual marriage.
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Voters in Iceland have voted in their first gay prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, in general elections Saturday.
Sigurdardottir is an openly gay female politician and took over the reins of Iceland’s government as interim prime minister on February 1 after Independent Party leadership was ousted in January amid increasingly violent public demonstrations that blamed the conservative Party […]
Senegal’s court of appeal has quashed January’s convictions of nine men for homosexuality and ordered their immediate release. The men belong to a group that fights HIV and Aids.
They were sentenced to eight years in jail after being found guilty of “indecent conduct and unnatural acts” after they were arrested in December in the capital, Dakar.
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Six gay men were shot dead by members of their tribe in two separate incidents in the past 10 days, an official with Iraq’s Interior ministry said.
In the most recent attack, two men were killed Thursday in Sadr City area of Baghdad after they were disowned by relatives, the official said. (CNN)
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Sweden is now the fifth European country to allow gay marriage.
On Wednesday Parliament gave same-sex couples the right to marry. The new law will take effect on May 1. It will still be up to individual churches to decide if they want to wed gay couples.
The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Spain also allow gay marriages.
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Moscow’s gay rights activists have planned their Pride festivities to coincide with the popular Eurovision Song Contest in May, potentially facing a showdown between Russia and the international gay community.
Activists will ask contestants to show their support for gay rights by wearing lapel pins onstage on May 16, the final day of competition.
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The Obama administration has been asked by former presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry to grant asylum to a gay man who was forced to return to Brazil even after he married a U.S. citizen in Massachusetts.
Genesio “Junior” Oliveira has been separated from his husband, Tim Coco, since August 2007, when he left the country after […]
Heart throb Robert Pattinson, star of the teen flick “Twilight”, is set to break some young hearts when he stars as Salvador Dali in the new movie, “Little Ashes.”
Ready to share his first onscreen love scene with the world, his girlie followers that hope it’s between Bella and Edward may be in for a shock. […]
Edge Boston has an interesting article about Cananda and it’s same-sex marriage equality laws. Simply put, they have them, we don’t. And it really makes you wonder what the problem is with the good ole’ United States - the land of the FREE. What are the people of our great country so afraid of?
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Asian gay rights activists blasted a Hong Kong-based satellite TV network for its coverage of the 2009 Academy Awards because the words “gay” and “lesbian” were censored from the broadcast.
Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black gave an impassioned speech on equal rights as he collected his trophy at the Hollywood event.
Viewers who watched the ceremony […]
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