California's AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an American gay health charity, plan to file a petition that could seen the production of bareback pornography banned in the USA.
Mexico City looks set to become the first city in Latin America to legalise gay marriage, with lawmakers passing a bill 39 to 20. Now it's up to the city's mayor to sign the bill into law, which he is expected to do.
China's first government endorsed gay bar has opened after a three week delay, due to the huge amount of media attention initially generated by the news, which in turn put off volunteers involved with the venue.
(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.
 Reuters South Africa | Africa's Anti-Gay Laws Spark Accusations and Denials in US Voice of America The executive director of the US-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Cary Alan Johnson, welcomes some of the questions now being ... Uganda's anti-gay bill a dangerous step backward Australia finally condemns Uganda Gays 'illegal' in Uganda |
Filmmaker tackles homophobia in the Bahamas Reuters While he initially conceived his movie in purely romantic terms, it turned darker following the murders of five gay men over a few months in 2007-08. ... |
In the World | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/22/2009 Philadelphia Inquirer Seven other countries allow gay marriages: Canada, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium. US states that permit same-sex marriage ... |
Ex-National MP Brian Neeson has been appointed to the Human Rights Review Tribunal, despite voting against equality and anti-discrimination measures for LGBT people at every opportunity while he was in parliament in the 1990s.
The 'unholy storm' over St-Matthew-in-the-City Church's 'Mary and Joseph' billboard has led to the return of its much less controversial 'Noah's Ark' themed sign welcoming LGBT church-goers.
Five people have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority over the NZ AIDS Foundation's Get it On 'dancing fingers' condom TV ad, but the watchdog's chief has OKed the sexual health message.
Hospital retrains to stop gay discrim Read more….
Siena found that NY was ‘disappointed’ by the senate’s rejection of marriage, 47-41. Read more….
Activists in Argentina will be filing over 50 appeals to the decision to stop marriage in Buenos Aires. Read more….
Gay MP's at the Labour Party's annual conference this weekend have proposed subsidising shop-bought condoms to cut down on STI's and unplanned pregnancies, reports the Herald on Sunday. 
MPs ha>MPs have heard the defence of provocation in court cases is a "homophobic hangover" that should long have been done away with. 
Friends of the New Zealand-born diplomat found strangled and with an anti-gay note say he was like royalty in Jamaica - even before he was appointed British honorary consul. 
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