Sunday, November 15, 2009

International Gay News Headlines (T25T-3)

Ruth Davidson, the Conservatives' lesbian candidate in the Glasgow North-East by-election, has just beaten British National Party (BNP)'s Charlie Baillie in the race for third place. The Labour candidate Willie Bain comfortably won the seat.


A nationwide survey of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in Ireland has found that their top concerns are equality in the workplace, anti-gay violence and bullying.


A ten-year-old boy from Arkansas has refused to pledge allegiance to the flag until gays and lesbians have equal rights. Will Phillips said some of his peers had called him gay slurs over his choice.



Reeling Film Festival Closing Night Extravaganza
Metromix Chicago
Reeling 2009: The 28th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival closes out with a screening of Evgeny Afineevsky's comedy "Oy Vey! My Son is Gay! ...

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Examiner.com

Ex-gay movement holds nation-wide conference tour; USA holds face in hands
Examiner.com
Well, Exodus International and Focus on the Family have you covered. These two conservative Christian organizations together represent the central monolith ...
R-71: Religion is a choice, sexuality is notTheNewsTribune.com

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Gay prince joins hands with Australian NGO
Times of India
... which works for prevention of HIV/AIDS in Lesbian Gay Bi-sexual Transgender (LGBT) communities in Australia. The first of its kind international ...

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(Russia) Gay and Lesbian Film Festival “Bok o Bok” which was supposed to take place in Saint Petersburg from today and last until Sunday finally did not open after Fire Department Inspectors closed the place due to problems with fire security. In a phone interview to Project GayRussia.Ru, Organiser of the festival Irina Sergeeva said that the clubs “The Place” and “Sochi” where the screenings of the films were supposed to take place, were closed due to fire security reasons.
(USA) - As part of Bibi's outreach to our communities, Bibi|SF will be hosting talks on various issues affecting queer South West Asian, North Africans (aka Middle-Easterners). Its first engagement is with Arsham Parsi of the IRanian Queer Organization on Thursday, June 26 at the SF LGBT Center.
(USA) - Gay human rights activists in San Francisco staged a speak out at the Russian consulate on May 16, in conjunction with IDAHO events around the planet. Before showing up at the consulate, the group sent emails to the staff explaining their reason for coming -- to press the government to grant parade permits to Moscow's Gay pride event.
Following a storm of protest against the artist, the producers of Big Day Out have decided notorious anti-gay Jamaican Reggae performer Beenie Man will now not appear at the popular music festival.


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