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Canadian border agency’s seizure of LGBT films raises specter of past censorship
Three films sent to an Ottawa LGBT film festival were held for "review" last weekend by Canadian customs officials. The films are Clapham Junction, I Can’t Think Straight, and the PG-rated Swedish comedy Patrik Age 1.5 On Nov. 20...
Lessons in homophobia: Philippines denial of LGBTQ party’s ballot bid
Philippines Senate hopeful Danton Remoto photo by Ralph Camus, from Danton’s campaign blog “I will definitely run as senator in 2010,” said Philippine LGBTQ rights advocate Danton Remoto said Wednesday. “I’ve been invited by two pa...
Fans stunned, teammates supportive as Irish sports star says, ‘I’m gay’
Source: Irish Times, Irish Independent, Independent (London), Irish Central, Belfast Telegraph, Times (London) Cork goalkeeper Donal Og Cusack, right, is tackled by Kilkenny's Aidan Fogarty during an April, 2007 game. This is one of many photos ...
Item: Death penalty for gay sex in Uganda
::: A member of parliament from Uganda’s ruling party has proposed a law that would death penalty for those convicted having gay sex with disabled people, those under-18, or when the accused is HIV-positive, BBC reports. Homosexuality ...
Clinton joins anti-gay Moscow mayor to dedicate statue of gay poet
Walt Whitman US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled a statue Wednesday at Moscow State University of poet Walt Whitman, whose poetry contains sensual references to men. Whitman, a civil-war-era poet, journalist, and essayist extolled homos...
Headlinks: Presbyterians, leaderless GOP, teacher jailed, channeling God
[Presbyterian News Svc] Presbyterians debate but cannot agree on same-sex marriage [SJ MercuryNews] Census count: 23,000 of California's gay couples consider themselves married [Palm Center pr] Congressman Seeks Inquiry Into Navy's Anti-Gay A...
One of three convicted of murdering South African lesbian activist
Protesters in March called for recognition of women’s rights via Daily Mail One man was convicted Tuesday in South Africa for the murder of a well known lesbian activist and former national women's football team player, Eudy Simelane. The Del...
Australian senator apologizes for ‘misquote’ about gay men
A senator from Australia’s conservative opposition partly (named, oddly enough, the “Liberal Party”) has apologized for what he now claims was a misquote of a statement he made at a Marriage Day rally at the parliament building. Sen. Bill Hef...
Item: Tiny Irish village goes ‘gay for a day’
Surfing the waves of Easkey via It may be the smallest official gay pride observance in the world, but the tiny Irish coastal village of Easkey, County Sligo has “gone gay” for Friday, ABC News reports. Organizers expect around 80 people from t...
Albania surprises with draft law recognizing marriage equality
Albania would become the first country in the Balkans and the first former communist country to recognize full marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples if a draft law proposed last month by Prime Minister Sali Berisha is adopted. 84 votes wou...
Item: Out gay NZ MP traveling dust-up
NZ MP Chris Carter, left, sometimes travels with his partner Peter Kaiser ::: Chris Carter is an out gay member of parliament in New Zealand who has come under fire for his travel expenses. New Zealand Herald reported last week that Ca...
Dubai launches yet another ‘morals’ crackdown on ‘cross-dressing’
A rendering of the Palm Trump Hotel in Dubai (via blog) Buildings in the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai have taken on a bizarrely Jetsons-esqe quality as developers push architects and engineers to create ever-more unlikely and awkward structures. ...
Thursday update: Ref. 71 petition signatures still have too many errors
Thursday’s Referendum 71 signature checks in Washington continue to show an error rate on referendum petitions that is too high for the number of names submitted. The error rate has been increasing for checks done in the past two days. From the bl...
Netanyahu says shooting at Tel Aviv gay center ‘like a terror attack’
Saturday's fatal shooting attack at a gay youth center in Tel Aviv bears the markings of a terror attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday during a visit to Tel Aviv LGBT Center. Media was blocked from covering the visit by an uncomm...
Report details deplorable treatment of LGBT people in Burundi
“It was never easy to be gay or lesbian in Burundi,” reports Zimbabwe Star. “But now it’s illegal.” In a move that was roundly criticized by human rights groups, the east African country’s government passed a law in April criminalizes h...
Eyecandy: Half-a-million party on canal for Amsterdam gay pride
Amsterdam Canal Parade, 2009 Flickr photo by daley_seaton Flickr photo: willem67 Flickr photo: daley_seaton Flickr photo: willem67 Flickr photo: Vabelhaft At least 560,000 turned out on a ...
Gunman turns teen meeting at Tel Aviv gay center into ‘slaughterhouse’
Screen capture from BBC video Two young people were dead in Tel Aviv and about 15 more injured – some seriously – after a masked gunman sprayed bullets into a room where dozens of teens were meeting at a weekly support group. [Update: Police c...
Headlines: Anti-gay terror in Iraq; Catholic LGBT rights; Mystic kisses; Headlinks
::: USA Today’s Baghdad correspondents Paul Wiseman and Nadeem Majeed tell an all-too-familiar story in today’s paper of gay men being killed in Iraq for the “crime” of being gay. A secular, liberal Sunni legislator blames the ki...
Seattle runner injured by bomb thrown onto track at World Outgames
Dean Koga gets a kiss from Italian runner Giampiero Mancinelli a day after being injured by a bomb. OutSports.com photo by Jim Buzinski Source: OutSports, Windy City Times, Copenhagen Post, BBC Dean Koga of the Seattle Frontrunners was injured b...
Official UK military mag features gay and lesbian servicemembers
Out gay Trooper James Wharton is interviewed by the official UK military magazine Soldier “I came out to the Army before I told my parents, so that says a lot for the Armed Forces,” a 22-year-old trooper in the British army told a UK magazine i...
Lithuania’s parliament reinstates anti-gay law
The parliament in the Baltic republic of Lithuania, called the “Siemas”, today voted to overturn the veto of a notoriously anti-gay law, which was originally passed by the chamber on June 15. UK Gay News reports that the law “effectively bans ...
After ‘gay panic’ defense, man convicted of manslaughter for NZ bashing death
Philip Ambach A 32 year-old Hungarian tourist was convicted this week of manslaughter, but found not guilty of murder, for the 2008 beating death of a 69 year-old gay man at his Aukland, New Zealand home. During trial the jury was told that Phil...
Astrologer’s grab-bag of anti-gay claims will be heard by India’s top court
Source: AFP, CNN, Hindustan Times, Business Standard, ThaiIndian.com, New Kerala, NewsRackIndia Challenges were filed yesterday with India’s highest court to a landmark court ruling that decriminalizes gay sex between consenting partners in Ind...
Singapore official says his country will ignore, but not repeal Section 377
The British colonial overlords in the 19th Century imposed on all of their colonies, including India and the city-state of Singapore, the same British penal code, including something called “Section 377” in India and Singapore. It’s a law that,...
Jubilation greets Indian court ruling that strikes out anti-gay law
Source: AFP, Reuters, Times of India, Associated Press, Hindustan Times, Day After India’s Victorian-era law against gay sex is discriminatory and therefore a "violation of fundamental rights" accorded under the constitution, a court in New Del...
Multi-thousands at India’s LGBTQ Pride parades hope for repeal of anti-gay law
Source: Times of India, IANS via The Hindu, Indian Express, Xinhua, AFP via Straits Times, Delhi Walla blog New Delhi Pride Photo by Mayank Austen Soofi via Delhi Walla blog The tens of thousands who marched in colorful and festive LGBTQ ...
Thousands march in peaceful Pride parade in Jerusalem
Source: Haaretz, Reuters, AFP Jerusalem Pride, 2009 Flickr photo by nele36 For the first time in eight years, participants where able to march peacefully through Jerusalem in the city’s annual gay pride parade. The marchers – between 2...
Same-sex couples will get legal recognition in Ireland under new bill
Ireland published new civil partnership laws Friday giving legal recognition to same-sex couples but falling short of marriage because of limitations imposed by the country's constitution. Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said the laws provided “ver...
Headlines: Turkish gay ref; Out gay judge; Lithuanian bigotry; + headlinks
::: A referee for the Turkish Football Federation lost his job and was forced to go into hiding after he came out on a television program. “I have not committed a crime, I have not defamed my profession. I’m only a homosexual,” Hal...
Must read: Some gay Iraqi exiles find unaccustomed freedom in Turkey
Reuters reporter Khalid al-Ansary files a report from Istanbul, Turkey on a growing group of gay refugees in the city who have fled from Iraq because of death threats in that increasingly intolerant country. al-Ansary interviewed “Ameer” who sol...
