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Gay ex-sergeant sues Brazilian military over arrest

5 hours 41 min ago
A Brazilian Army sergeant who came out last month on the cover of nationwide magazine filed a lawsuit yesterday against the military command in the southeast of the country. Former Sgt. Fernando Alcântara de Figueiredo wants to prove that his arrest and that of his partner by the Army were...

Magic, Spike Lee join black campaign to fight HIV

6 hours 12 sec ago
"Ladies," said Cookie Johnson, looking straight into the camera, her husband's arm draped across her shoulders. "Have you been tested..." "...for HIV?" finished Lakers basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson. As the most prominent African American face of HIV, Johnson, who is now a businessman and philanthropist, has long used his...

Canada set to deport bi Nigerian woman over asylum claim

6 hours 3 min ago
Time is running out for a bisexual woman who has been denied refugee status in Canada. Jane Okojie is scheduled to be deported to Nigeria on Thu, Jul 10 where she says she and her two children will face persecution because of her bisexuality. "I don't know what to do,"...

Me. high court hears how IBM heir adopted her partner

6 hours 29 min ago
An adult adoption involving lesbian partners and a claim to a share of a family fortune built on IBM has been annulled, bouncing the case to Maine's highest court. At issue is whether it was legal for a judge to allow Olive Watson to adopt Patricia Spado in 1991 in...

Near riot in Ark. after 'Bruno' fakes a gay cage fight

6 hours 38 min ago
Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing _ a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame. "We had a contract for cage fighting....

Reggae artists join New York's Straight Pride parade

Mon, 2008/07/07 - 4:08pm
A group of reggae artists, backed by their record label, will openly embrace their heterosexuality this upcoming Labor Day weekend. "Although reggae is known for its militancy and its resistance to injustice," TCOOO Productions proclaimed, "the reggae community has remained calm throughout the attack on the music by Peter Tatchell...

Dubai police target gay sex cruising on the beaches

Mon, 2008/07/07 - 3:36pm
Dubai Police have formed an undercover unit to combat homosexual and indecent activity on the emirate's public beaches, a recent press report said. An unnamed official at Dubai Police's Criminal Investigation Department told UAE daily Al-Emarat al-Youm that police officers in civilian clothing are patrolling local beaches after complaints from...

Despondent over lover's death, sci-fi writer ends life

Mon, 2008/07/07 - 3:14pm
Science fiction writer and poet Thomas Disch has committed suicide, authorities said. Disch died July 4 and his body was discovered July 5, according to the New York City Police Department. He was 68. The author of seminal science-fiction novels "Camp Concentration" and "334," Disch had been openly gay since 1968.

Okla. high court approves voiding of lesbian divorce

Mon, 2008/07/07 - 2:22pm
In a case involving a trial judge who granted a divorce to a couple he did not know included two women, the Oklahoma Supreme Court unanimously upheld that judge's decision to vacate his order granting the divorce. But the high court also found that Cait O'Darling is entitled to a...

London mayor booed despite joining Gay Pride parade

Mon, 2008/07/07 - 2:12pm
London Mayor Boris Johnson sported a pink cowboy hat as he led a Gay Pride parade through London, drawing boos along the way from some who remembered his past doubts about civil partnerships. But others at Saturday's annual march say they are reserving judgment, to see what Johnson does as mayor. Ben Summerskill, chief...

Bush removal from cruising hangout sparks complaints

Mon, 2008/07/07 - 2:05pm
Few park visitors would object to cutting back overgrown bushes. But to some members of the gay community, the undergrowth at a popular beauty spot in Bristol, England, is something to be protected. And when the council proposed removing the bushes for conservation purposes, they were met with an unusually...

Sex scandal senators among marriage ban sponsors

Sun, 2008/07/06 - 5:47pm
Two of the principal Senate sponsors of a U.S. constitutional amendment to "protect" marriage are one Republican who hired prostitutes and another who was arrested for soliciting gay sex an airport men's room. Senators David Vitter (R-La.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho) joined eight other Republican senators re-introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment to the...

U.K. tells gay Syrian asylum seeker he is safe in the closet

Sun, 2008/07/06 - 5:37pm
A gay asylum seeker has been told that he should be safe in his homeland of Syria, provided he behaves "discreetly." A tribunal found that gays have no right of protection from international persecution. JoJo Jako Jacob, who is 19, claims he will be executed if he is returned to...

Anti-gay Anglican bishops in secret talks with Vatican

Sun, 2008/07/06 - 5:31pm
Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks with Vatican officials to discuss the crisis in the Anglican communion over homosexual priests and women bishops. They met senior advisers of the Pope in an attempt to build closer ties with the Roman Catholic Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr...

Homophobic attacks on Budapest Pride lead to injuries

Sun, 2008/07/06 - 5:27pm
Forty-five people were taken into custody and 10 others were injured in clashes between police and homophobes during a gay rights march in the Hungarian capital Saturday, reports said. About 450 people took part in the march in central Budapest when extremists began throwing explosive devices, eggs, cobblestones and bottles...

Gay man attacked by machete in Bermuda bashing

Sun, 2008/07/06 - 5:06pm
A homophobic attack on a St. David's man left him with fractured facial bones and a two-inch gash over his eye, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday. Medical evidence read in at the trial of Rashad David George Cooper - brother of the murdered Cooper twins Jahmal and Jahmil -...

Hundreds of thousands flock to Madrid for Gay Pride

Sat, 2008/07/05 - 6:51pm
Hundreds of thousands of gays, lesbians and their supporters on Saturday took part in a colourful parade across Madrid, the capital of a country that has become a world leader in gay rights. Equality Minister Bibiano Aido led the parade of more than 30 floats, mostly related to gay bars...

At Calif. gay weddings, tradition still remains strong

Sat, 2008/07/05 - 6:38pm
Who may now kiss the bride when there are two grooms? Since the state of California began issuing marriage certificates to same-sex couples last month, questions about wedding rituals and etiquette — not just politics — have grown faster than a wedding reception guest list. With no long-established gay wedding...

Gay Spanish mayor uses wedding to bring town to life

Sat, 2008/07/05 - 6:13pm
The Socialist mayor of the Spanish town of Campillo de Ranas has bucked the trend of rural depopulation by promoting his village as a venue for weddings, particularly gay weddings. Three years ago this week, Spain's Socialist government passed a same-sex marriage law giving gay couples the same legal rights...

Jesse Helms, foe of gay rights and AIDS funding dies

Sat, 2008/07/05 - 7:00am
Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator with the courtly manner and mossy drawl who turned his hard-edged conservatism against civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. He was 86. He fought bitterly against federal financing for AIDS research and treatment, saying the disease resulted...
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