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21 Jan 2010- Bollywood’s getting bolder… and how! The amendment of Section 377, giving legitimacy to homosexual relationships...more

21 Jan 2010- Popstar Kylie Minogue has admitted being attracted to women and having a crush on a famous actress...more

Uganda anti-gay bill may change, says MP Bahati

21 Jan 2010- Uganda- A Ugandan MP who proposed introducing the death penalty for some gay people has told a newspaper he is willing to change it...more

Couple set for 'gay' marriage legal battle

20 Jan 2010- London, England - A straight couple battling to have a "gay" civil partnership in the name of equality are taking their case to the highest court in Europe...more

18 Jan 2010- Zimbabwe- MDC-T has accused Zanu PF of peddling "blatant falsehoods" after it emerged that Mugabe's supporters were spreading rumours that the perceived Tsvangirai government would legalise gay relationships...more

18 Jan 2010- Belgrade- Minister for Human and Minority Rights Svetozar Čiplić announced that a gay pride parade will be held this year...more

17 Jan 2010- The trial of a young male couple charged with unnatural practices...more

BBC weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker shocks bosses after posing in gay magazine

16 Jan 2010- London, England- But this is current BBC weather presenter Tomasz Schafernaker as you have never seen him before...more

15 Jan 2010- Uganda- The UN's top human rights official has called on Uganda to drop a proposed anti-homosexuality law that would impose the death penalty on some gay and lesbian people...more

11 Jan 2010- Matuba Mahlatjie is gay, African and married, which is unheard of outside liberal South Africa...more

11 Jan 2010- Blantyre, Malawi - Lawyers for two men arrested after becoming Malawi's first gay couple to wed publicly filed court papers on Monday requesting a review of the law banning homosexuality...more

11 Jan 2010- A bill submitted last October sparked international condemnation and prompted threats to cut aid to Uganda...more

08 Jan 2010- Lisbon - The Portuguese parliament on Friday passed the Socialist government's bill to legalise same-sex marriages...more

04 Jan 2010- Malawi- Since they became the first openly gay couple in Malawi to be engaged have been arrested and charged with offences...more

04 Jan 2010- Kampala, Uganda- Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about ''curing'' homosexuals have been widely discredited in the US...more

03 Jan 2010- Gay group Immigration Equality will welcome two men from the Netherlands on Monday as the U.S. officially ends its travel restrictions...more

02 Jan 2010- Malawi- The first gay couple to marry in Malawi face a humiliating medical examination aimed at proving they have had sexual relations, it emerged today...more

02 Jan 2010- London, England- BBC newsreader Jane Hill has made the headlines herself - after revealing she is gay...more

29 Dec 2009- Malawi Police on Monday arrested two Malawian men who had become the first gay couple to publicly tie the knot...more

Uganda will drop death penalty, life imprisonment for gays in refined anti-gay bill:

11 Dec 2009- Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version...more

11 Dec 2009- Kigali — The Archbishop of the Church of Rwanda, Rt. Rev. Emmanuela Kolini has strongly criticized and condemned the decision of an Anglican diocese...more

11 Dec 2009- UK- Ben Rakestrow, who is serving in Afghanistan, says he has had nothing but harmless banter since revealing his sexuality...more

Uganda anti-gay bill; Zimbabwe aid; Male circumcision; Rural health in India; HIV/AIDS Insurance

11 Dec 2009- Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of an anti-gay bill expected to be ready for presentation to Parliament in two weeks...more

01 Dec 2009- I live in the Middle East and having to walk into seeing a doctor if you are HIV positive would be asking for your death penalty...more

01 Dec 2009- Kenya-This ignorance among most gays and lesbians leads to unprotected sex...more

01 Dec 2009-if you have a good dick, nice body and nice arse, well anyone is able to fall for that and they do, so the question is would they want all that package covered in a plastic...more

28 Nov 2009- UK- More people than ever before are living with HIV in the UK but more than a quarter do not know they have it, figures show...more

15 Nov 2009- Uganda- The Anglican Church in Uganda say that it “does not yet have an official position” on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently being proposed in the country's Parliament...more

13 Nov 2009- Fergie from hit pop group Black Eyed Peas has spoken about the world of gay once again this week stating Kanye made Hip-Hop gay friendly...more

12 Nov 2009- A party promoter in Australia has banned ‘Metrosexuals’ from a popular club night in an aim to stop violence...more

12 Nov 2009- Alan Carr reckons gay men make the best chat show hosts. The openly gay comedian, who is preparing for the second season of his Channel 4 chat show...more

28 Oct 2009- Nairobi-Kenya For some in Uganda, where an anti-homosexuality bill is being put to parliament...more

28 Oct 2009- London, England- An arts festival showcasing work by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans (LGBT) and queer performers, artists, filmmakers...more

27 Oct 2009- Congo - As the row over the gay marriage of two Kenyans two weeks ago continues to rage, a priest at the coast has added fuel to the fire...more

27 Oct 2009- Accra, Uganda- Uganda's draconian anti-homosexuality bill has the potential to destroy thousands of lives. The church must speak up...more

26 Oct 2009- Kenya- A priest sparked off a rare debate during Sunday mass at St. Anthony Catholic cathedral when he raised the sensitive issue of marriage between two Kenyan gay men in London recently....more

Katherine Jenkins wows the crowds in ultra-tight PVC dress

26 Oct 2009- London, England- She is known for pairing her soaring operatic voice with glamorous evening gowns...more

26 Oct 2009- Some Anglican clergy have said they are ready to accept an offer to join the Roman Catholic Church at a meeting...more

26 Oct 2009- London, England- Victoria Beckham has told how she loves the fact that she and her husband David have become gay icons...more

25 Oct 2009- Uganda- We believe in different things, you and me. Or perhaps we believe in the same things. Our viewpoints and our life philosophies very often define who we are...more

24 Oct 2009- Kenya- After the Nation broke the story of the gay Kenyan couple who wedded in London...more

24 Oct 2009- Dublin, Ireland- One of Ireland's best-known sports stars has announced that he is gay...more

Ugandan bill proposes death penalty for sexually active HIV-positive gay men

16 Oct 2009- A Ugandan MP has introduced a bill which would impose the death penalty on HIV-positive gay men in Uganda if they have sex with another man...more

13 Oct 2009- London, England- An openly bi-sexual guy singing a song that is lyrically a 'girls' song'...more

13 Oct 2009- London, England- Jordan’s boyfriend Alex Reid has spoken for the first time about his cross-dressing and admitted: “I'm very gay”...more

13 Oct 2009- Russia- A group of well-known Russian singers and writers has called for an end to discrimination against gay people...more

13 Oct 2009- UK- Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for Rhondda, has been promoted to the position of Europe minister...more

12 Oct 2009- Stephen Fry last night "revealed" that he is gay - decades after it was known to the rest of the world...more

11 Oct 2009- Cape Town, South Africa- A spate of police raids and pressure from De Waterkant residents look set to close an apparent brothel offering the services of young men, some in chains, which is operating out of the historic village...more

11 Oct 2009- The 33-year-old Irish pop star and actor was on holiday with his long-term partner Andrew Cowles in Majorca when he "tragically died...more

09 Oct 2009- London, England-Top Gear presenter says television has box-ticking approach to balancing out 'blond, heterosexual boy' presenters...more

26 Aug 2009- Ghana- About two hundred suspected homosexuals have held two separate birthday parties in Sekondi-Takoradi...more

23 Aug 2009- Cape Town, South Africa- The Anglican Church in the southern part of Africa has taken a small step towards accepting gay people in "faithful, committed relationships...more

23 Aug 2009- Pretoria, South Africa- A gay music teacher and organist fired by a Pretoria NG Kerk has found work again, with a different branch of the same church in the Eastern Cape, according to Sunday's Rapport...more

21 Aug 2009 – Senegal- A 17 year-old Sénégalese man is due to stand trial on August 24 for sexual acts “against nature”, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) revealed last night...more

18 Aug 2009-Malawi- A study on men having sex with men (MSM) in Malawi shows that, as elsewhere in the developing world, this vulnerable group is at greater risk of contracting HIV and AIDS than the general population...more

04 Aug 2009- Burundi- Homosexuals in Burundi say that their lives have been marked with increased discrimination and fear following the East African country's move to ban homosexual practices...more

03 Aug 2009- Tel Aviv, Israel- Fifteen years ago, Berg first took refuge in that basement, then a newly established community center of the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Assn...more

31 July 2009- Albania- Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has announced his party will propose a law legalising same-sex marriage...more

28 July 2009- Amnesty International Ireland Executive Director Colm O'Gorman is to say the Irish Government's proposed Civil Partnership Bill would create 'a second-class form of marriage...more

27 July 2009- Geneva — The United Nations granted official status to a gay and lesbian organization from Brazil on Monday, allowing it to participate in U.N. meetings ranging from health to human rights...more

11 July 2009- Uganda- Muslims have teamed up with their counterparts from the Pentecostal churches to fight homosexuality...more

Uganda's Most Wanted

08 July 2009- Uganda- Victor Mukasa crossed a line in his home country. He came out once as a lesbian, once as trans and decided not to stay silent about it...more

08 July 2009- Sweden- Swedish scientists have suggested that brains of gay people may share similar physical attributes to those of the opposite sex...more

08 July 2009- Uganda- Gay rights activists in the United Kingdom want world soccer governing body FIFA to ban Uganda for clamping down on homosexuals in the game...more

07 July 2009- The television guru whose yoga programmes are watched by an estimated 85 million people throughout the world, made the claim in an appeal to the overturn a ruling last week which legalised homosexuality...more

03 July 2009- London, England-Gordon Brown's policy on homosexual rights is based on the principle that "you can't legislate love", he told Gay Pride march organisers yesterday...more

03 July 2009- Made in 1994, when homosexuality was frowned upon in Cuba, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s film seems tamer now than it did...more

02 July 2009- Gay groups are praising the imminent end of the U.S. ban on travel and immigration by HIV infected foreign nationals...more

Uganda talks exclusively: Fifa a demand explanation over fufa anti-gayletter, sanction could follow

02 July 2009- Uganda Talks can exclusively reveal that's demanding an explanation “regarding recent media reports of an apparent FUFA campaign against homosexual related acts...more

14 June 2009- Morocco- A soft-spoken slip of a young man, Abdellah Taia hardly looks the part of an iconoclast. But as Morocco's first high-profile, openly gay man...more

12 June 2009- South Africa- The Pinetown Boys' High School management and governing body say they have never neglected to deal with allegations of bullying at the school and have procedures to deal with the issue...more

13 June 2009- Thousands of people across Europe on Saturday took part in colourful gay pride parades to protest against anti-gay prejudice...more

12 June 2009- Netherlands- A leaked report from the Dutch government has said that religious schools can refuse to employ gay teachers...more

11 June 2009- The British ambassador to Poland has sparked a diplomatic incident after promoting a controversial gay pride march due to take place in Warsaw on Saturday...more

28 may 2009- EastEnders is to tackle a storyline which will feature a Muslim man embarking upon a gay affair...more

28 May 2009- South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has applauded the Kirk for approving the controversial appointment of a gay minister to a north-east church...more

Teacher sacked after writing 'fictional' book in which pupils have sexual fantasies about her

28 May 2009- An English teacher has been sacked after writing a racy novel which detailed her teenage pupils' sexual fantasies...more

28 May 2009- An Irish civil servant who was exposed by journalists for running a gay escort service has avoided jail...more

27 May 2009- A soft-spoken slip of a young man, Abdellah Taia hardly looks the part of an iconoclast...more

04 May 2009-Senegal- The body of a man believed to be homosexual has twice been dug up from a Muslim cemetery in Senegal...more

27 Apr 2009- London, England- A north London teacher has been suspended from his £50,000-a-year job after a row over a speech by a gay rights campaigner...more

24 Apr 2009- Russia- A Russian radical nationalist movement has appealed to Moscow authorities seeking tougher legislation on public actions promoting homosexuality...more

24 Apr 2009- Kathmandu, Nepal- Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal's first openly gay MP who is also the founding president of the country's first gay rights organisation...more

23 April 2009 (IRIN) - International rights groups have welcomed the release of nine AIDS activists in Senegal, who were sentenced in January for their sexual orientation...more

Gay pub wins its bid for male strippers

22 Apr 2009- London, England- One of the Europe's oldest gay pubs has been given permission to put on a male strip show...more

21 Apr 2009- Netherlands- TV presenter Arie Boomsma, who is on the front cover of Linda de Mol's new gay men's magazine l'homo, was not allowed to attend Monday night's launch party by his employer...more

21 Apr 2009- Hungarian- Parliament yesterday passed a bill that allows same-sex couples of over 18 to establish legal registered partnerships with 199 affirmative votes...more

16 Apr 2009- Rotterdam has exonerated Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan in an investigation over alleged homophobic and misogynistic statements...more

Taking cue from exodus, Uganda moves to imprison gays regardless of behaviour

15 Apr 2009- Uganda intends to imprison gay Ugandans for their attraction, regardless of whether they are sexually active...more

Cabin crew manager only allowed to hire 'young, slim and single' air stewardesses

15 Apr 2009- Young, slim and single air stewardesses were the only staff a cabin crew manager was allowed to hire to work on a fleet of private charter aircraft...more

15 Apr 2009- Moroccan man has allegedly killed his ex-husband in Almería, before committing suicide himself...more

14 Apr 2009- In August 2006 Uganda’s tabloid newspaper, Red Pepper, published a list of 45 alleged gay men stating their aim was to “demonstrate how rapidly this terrible vice known as sodomy is eating away at our society...more

02 Apr 2009- Portsmouth, England- A former police officer has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after admitting four counts...more

02 Apr 2009- Uganda- Gays and lesbians in Uganda have denied embarking on "recruitment drives" to attract people to homosexuality...more

02 Apr 2009- Sweden will allow gay couples to be legally married from next month...more

Gay rights remain a taboo in Morocco - Feature

31 Mar- 2009- Rabat, Morocco- "This is our love story," two gay men, whose faces were not visible...more

30 Mar 2009- Nigeria-Homosexuality, the perverted mutual attraction by people of the same sex, is only one of the different human aberrations as far as the sexual habit is concerned...more

29 Mar 2009- Burundi- Journalists are targeted, poor peasants whipped into frenzies of protests, and the roughly 400 gay people living in Burundi...more

29 Mar 2009- UK- New laws to allow a gay Royal couple to take part in a civil partnership and become joint monarchs...more

29 Mar 2009- Zurich, Switzerland- As the city prepares for Euro Pride, the people of Zürich have today elected an openly gay woman as the Mayor...more

29 Mar 2009-moscow, Russia- Russian gay pride events will coincide with Moscow's hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest this May and competitors will be asked to back homosexual rights onstage...more

Videos Surface of Ugandan Activists Stirring Anti-Gay Fervor; Fears of Violence Grow

28 Mar 2009- Kampala, Uganda- We’ve gotten word from three separate Ugandan sources that local gays and lesbians in Uganda are worried about imminent violence...more

Vatican cardinal admits to Africanveil, its just men sharing their pleasure not homosexuality

25 Mar 2009- Milan, Italy- its just men sharing their inner feelings of their pleasure, but if the outsiders want to call it a practice of homosexuality...more

25 Mar 2009- London, England- MPs last night voted against keeping a free speech protection in the homophobic hatred...more

24 Mar 2009- Rabat, Morocco- The Moroccan government has begun a clampdown on what it sees as threats to the kingdom's religious and moral foundations...more

24 Mar 2009- Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor's upcoming dark comedy may have problems acquiring U.S. distribution...more

20 Mar 2009- Copenhagen Denmark’s Parliament has passed legislation allowing same-sex couples to adopt children...more

19 Mar 2009- Morocco- Outrage swept across Morocco following a gay association's announcement of a planned seminar on sexual problems...more

Pope’s attack on condoms sickens Aids campaigners

18 Mar 2009- The Pope caused dismay among Aids campaigners yesterday by declaring on his first trip to Africa that condoms were not the solution to the epidemic...more

18 Mar 2009- Scotland- A new law widening the definition of hate crimes to include attacks on gay or disabled people has been passed in principle...more

16 Mar 2009- South Africa- A married gay couple has been trying for 19 months to register both their names as parents on their son's birth certificate but have hit a brick wall with Home Affairs...more

13 Mar 2009- Nigerian human rights groups and gay activists are outraged by a bid to introduce legislation which would criminalise gay marriage...more

13 Mar 2009- South Africa- Lesbian women in South Africa are being raped by men who believe it will cure them...more

11 Mar 2009 – Nigeria- Nigerian gay rights activists have told the country's lawmakers that a new bill to outlaw same sex marriage...more

11 Mar 2009-Jerusalem, Israel- Fourteen years after arriving at his foster parents' home...more

09 Mar 2009- Brussels– The attendance of several Ugandan parliamentarians at an anti-gay conference in Kampala at the weekend has been condemned by the European Parliament’s all-party intergroup...more

09 Mar 2009- London, England- A 46-year-old man has been charged with murder after the double stabbing of an elderly gay couple...more

07 Mar 2009- Burundi- A demonstration thousands strong in Bujumbura, Burundi Friday called on lawmakers to criminalize being gay...more

07 Mar 2009- Lagos- Nigerian gay rights activists and mainstream human rights organizations are intensifying their campaign against the Same-Gender Marriage Prohibition Bill...more

04 Mar 2009- A seminar which features Scott Lively and is designed to attack lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Ugandans under the cloak of religion has been strongly condemned...more

04 Mar 2009- UK- A man aged 59 was stabbed to death and his male partner is fighting for life after being seriously injured in a possible homophobic attack in their south London home...more

04 Mar 2009- UK- Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) has launching a PEP campaign, urging gay men in London to 'Act Fast' with PEP...more

Catholic Church slams new code of conduct forcing teachers to promote Islam and gay rights

02 Mar 2009- The Roman Catholic Church has severely criticised a proposed new code of conduct for teachers which it says will force Christian schools to actively promote Islam and gay rights...more

23 Feb 2009- The HCM City-based Café FTV was full with curious audience members who came to watch the first fashion show of NewUrbanMale, the famous fashion brand for gays...more

22 Feb 2009-The rapper states they went to Diddy’s New Year’s Eve ‘ that later landed them unknowingly in a gay night club...more

20 Feb 2009- Italian singer Giuseppe Povia is causing outrage in Italy over "Luca era gay" (Luca was gay), a song about a gay man who goes straight watch and read...more

18 Feb 2009- Burundi- Burundi's senate has rejected a draft law that criminalises homosexuality. The draft proposed a sentence of three months to two years in prison for homosexual conduct...more

18 Feb 2009- UK- A man tried to blackmail a married man he met through a gay social networking site by demanding £500 not to tell his wife, a court heard...more

17 Feb 2009- South Africa- SABC lifestyle show Top Billing has backed down on its decision not to interview the writer-director of a movie about the dangerous love affair between two lesbians...more

Denial of a Gay Community in Nigeria Is “Economical With the Truth”, Say Young Humanistas

16 Feb 2009- IBADAN– The Young Humanistas Network in Nigeria described today the remarks of Ojo Madueke, Nigeria’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, denying the existence of a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community...more

14 Feb 2009- Nigeria- Describing as unbiblicalimmoral and alien to African culture, the Anglican Bishop of Abakaliki Diocese in Ebonyi State...more

13 Feb 2009- England was marred by homophobic chanting, according to the Gay Football Supporters Network...more

12 Feb 2009- Spain- The Spanish ministry of defence has said it will reform legislation to allow transsexuals to serve in the armed forces...more

09 Feb 2009- South Africa- Gay rights activists and lawyers who have worked on LGBT human rights cases met in South Africa last week...more

Police in Swedish gay sex party scandal

09 Feb 2009- Sweden- Partying police officers who simulated homosexual acts and ordered a male stripper are being investigated by Swedish authorities...more

06 Feb 2009- The 34-year-old former Spice Girls singer says she has more in common with homosexual men than her own gender...more

06 Feb 2009- Moscow, Russia – A group of Russian gay activists launched today a campaign demanding their government to stop requesting foreign visa applicants for their HIV status...more

05 Feb 2009- Edinburgh, Scotland- It has been revealed that Edinburgh and the Lothians has a new case of HIV diagnosed every three days...more

05 Feb 2009- There were renewed calls yesterday for the resignation of the Right Reverend Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop of New Hampshire...more

Ethiopian faith leaders call for constitutional ban on homosexuality

02 Feb 2009- The leaders of the Roman Catholic, Ethiopian Orthodox and Protestant churches have called on the government of Ethiopia for a constitutional ban on homosexuality...more

Gay pride flag flies at police HQ

02 Feb 2009- The flag to be hoisted to mark "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual History Month" at North Wales Police...more

02 Feb 2009- When it comes to Asian culture, ‘love’ doesn’t come into the equation. It’s all a question of ‘shame’: the shame that your son or daughter being homosexual...more

01 Feb 2009- Pope Benedict has made a controversial appointment, days after revoking the excommunication of a bishop...more

01 Feb 2009- Malta- Gozo Bishop Mario Grech last weekend signalled a whole new direction in the rapidly deteriorating relations between the Catholic church and its homosexual members...more

Same Sex Marriage: Human Rights Watch Urges Rejection of Bill

27 Jan 2009 – Nigeria- A group, Human Rights Watch, yesterday urged the National Assembly to disregard a bill before it seeking to ban "same gender marriage...more

26 Jan 2009- Bahrain’s gay community is outraged after a number of social networking sites were blocked as part of a government clampdown on porn...more

25 Jan 2009- New Delhi- A woman filed a maintenance case against her husband recently, alleging that he was involved in a homosexual relationship with his best friend...more

25 Jan 2009 – Johannesburg, South Africa-I am not dying of AIDS," he told the stunned judicial commission that was deciding whether to recommend his elevation. "I am living with AIDS...more

25 Jan 2009 -Beirut- The gay community in Lebanon is angry this weekend. And so are human rights groups, according to two local French language web sites...more

24 Jan 2009- Ghana- A Putney vicar has been made an honorary canon of a cathedral in Ghana...more

23 Jan 2009- A top producer at Egyptian TV and a young man working with the foreign press were among four men arrested in Cairo earlier this month...more

19 Jan 2009 - Nigeria- The House of Representatives in Nigeria has voted unanimously in favour of a new legislation banning same-sex marriage...more

19 Jan 2009- South Africa- A gay couple in South Africa were allegedly told they could not get married because their relationship was not normal...more

19 Jan 2009 - Cardiff Council Leader Rodney Berman has welcomed the success of a pilot programme aimed at challenging and raising awareness of homophobic...more

18 Jan 2009- Dont´t get too excited. Let me start by stating categorically that I am NOT gay...more

18 Jan 2009- Elizabeth Pisani is impressed by a timely account of HIV in southern Africa that follows one man's refusal to be tested for the virus...more

18 Jan 2009- London, England- Skimpy, tight pants and almost half naked, lady gaga made the show worth watching last night...more

16 Jan 2009- Geneva- Unaids on Thursday criticised Senegal for jailing nine gay men...more

15 Jan 2009 -Strasbourg- Members of the European Parliament on Wednesday urged EU states to put an end to discrimination against gays...more

15 Jan 2009- Kanye West often stares at gay men - so he can catch a glimpse of what they're wearing...more

15 Jan 2009- Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of the erstwhile state of Rajpipla in Gujarat, who is known for his gay sexual preferences...more

14 Jan 2009- Ready, set, drag! How does a man compete at becoming America's next hot, glamorous thing...more

12 Jan 2009- London, England- Retired police officer Brian Paddick has tied the knot with his partner of two years, Petter Belsvik...more

12 Jan 2009- South Africa- Tony Leon, the DA's foreign affairs spokesman, has submitted questions to foreign minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in parliament...more

12 Jan 2009- She's a gay icon around the globe and he's just posed for a renowned man-to-man magazine...more

12 Jan 2009- Moscow-Russia- The openly gay editor-in-chief of the largest Belarusian LGBT site Gay.by, Alexander Paluyan, will not now be conscripted into the Belarus army...more

Polish Politician to Former Polish Prime Minister: Are You Gay?

11 Jan 2009- Warsaw Poland- It has to be one of the most startling Polish political blogs of all-time. A politician publicly asking the former Prime Minister if he is gay...more

Gay man killed himself after going on Jeremy Kyle show to dicuss homosexuality

08 Jan 2009- London, England-A homosexual killed himself after appearing on the Jeremy Kyle television show to discuss problems in his gay marriage...more

07 Jan 2009- Senegal- The jailing in Senegal of nine gay men for eight years over "indecent conduct and unnatural acts" has been condemned ...more

Plane diverted over gay jibes

06 Jan 2009- A packed holiday jet was forced to make an emergency landing after drunken passengers became violent, started smoking and made gay jibes at cabin crew...more

05 Jan 2009- England, UK- Football stars David Beckham and Wayne Rooney were urged to speak out against homophobia today in a video which could be shown in schools...more

04 Jan 2009- South Africa- We can look to him to bring a razor-sharp mind to bear on thorny constitutional issues...more

Accra goes gay after declaration of election results

03 Jan 2009- Accra, Ghana- Hundreds of supporters of President –Elect – John Evans Atta Mills took to the streets of Accra clad in white calico…more

02 Jan 2009- South Africa- This is how leading HIV/Aids activist Zackie Achmat yesterday described the appointment of HIV-positive Judge Edwin Cameron to South Africa's highest court...more

23 Dec 2008- A Ugandan judge has awarded two women $7,000 (£4,700), saying their rights were infringed when they were arrested...more

23 Dec 2008- Rome - Italian gay rights group Arcigay on Tuesday threatened to disrupt Italy's biggest musical event of the year...more

22 Dec 2008- Vatican city, Italy- He may draw adoring crowds, but Pope Benedict XVI said Monday he's no rock star...more

16 Dec 2008- Sweden- A homosexual couple have lost their case in the Supreme Administrative Court (Regeringsrätten) against the Swedish tax authority...more

16 Dec 2008- Sweden- The youth arm of Sweden's largest gay rights group has expressed fury at educational material distributed by two major tampon manufacturers...more

15 Dec 2008- South Africa- As long as churches condemn homosexuality, there will be those who claim they can ‘cure’ this sexual orientation, writes Robert McKay...more

13 Dec 2008- Botswana- With homosexuality being regarded as a “disease” and immoral in many communities throughout Botswana...more

12 Dec 2008- UK- A homophobic man has been jailed for life for stabbing to death an accountant in a public toilet...more

12 Dec 2008- UK- Jade Goody has sparked anger among the gay community by saying that she will "look like a lesbian" if chemotherapy leaves her bald...more

11 Dec 2008- Brussels- European Union governments are in no hurry to widen the scope of the bloc's anti-discrimination rules...more

Italy TV row over gay cowboys

11 Dec 2008- Italy- An Italian TV station is under fire after it cut kissing and sex scenes from a screening of Brokeback Mountain...more

I0 Dec 2008- Brussels – The majority of EU states, including the Republic of Ireland, deny same-sex partners of EU citizens...more

07 Dec 2008- Pietermaritzburg, South Africa- Under cloudy skies at the Golden Horse Casino on Saturday stood a 40-metre rainbow in the form of a gay pride flag...more

07 Dec 2008- NEW DELHI, India- Justifying criminalisation of homosexuality in the country, the Centre has pleaded before the Delhi High...more

Hundreds protest Vatican's opposition to pro-gay UN text

06 Dec 2008- Some 250 people staged a sit-in by St Peter's Square on Saturday to slam the Vatican for its opposition to a UN resolution...more

Officer forced to quit after 15 years over views on gay sex, says the service has a 'bias against faith'

06 Dec 2008- UK- The Christian policeman sacked after a row over gay rights has told how his dismissal after 15 years in the force has ‘devastated’ his family...more

27 Nov 2008- Kenya-Homosexuals are living and working in Nairobi, Eldoret, Nanyuki, Mombasa and other Kenyan towns. Most are leading double and secret lives...more

27 Nov 2008- Spain- One of the men is the father of the child which was born in the United States by a surrogate mother...more

27 Nov 2008- Norway's Rosenborg has apologised to Valencia after a prank saw their website refer to Spanish Champions League rivals Valencia as homosexuals...more

26 Nov 2008- London- Boy George's lawyer said on Wednesday the man who has accused the British singer of tying him up and beating him with a chain last year...more

25 Nov 2008- In an unexpected blitz move, the parliament of Burundi has passed a law, making same-sex acts punishable by between three months and two years in prison...more

20 Nov 2008- He might have once have written some of the muckiest lyrics known to humanity...more

20 Nov 2008- Amsterdam, Netherlands- Amsterdam faces an ingrained problem of violence against gay men, despite its reputation as a haven of tolerance...more

14 Nov 2008- Singer Christina Aguilera is standing up for gay rights - insisting homosexual couples should be given the freedom to marry...more

14 Nov 2008- London, England- A date has been set for the council’s potentially embarrassing appeal against a decision to award damages to a Town Hall wedding registrar...more

14 Nov 2008- Oslo, Norway- The Church of Norway has yet to decide if it should create a new liturgy for same-sex couples...more

Civil servant 'stabbed by his gay lover' was tied up and blindfolded in kinky sex game

13 Nov 2008- A senior civil servant stabbed by his gay lover was unable to defend himself after being tied up and blindfolded as part of a bondage game...more

13 Nov 2008- Finland- A local Imatra vicar's announcement that he plans to undergo gender reassignment surgery...more

Moscow Gay Pride Group Appeals to French and EU Presidents on Eve of EU-Russia Summit

13 Nov 2008- Moscow, Russia- The group of gay activists who organise Moscow Pride has written to the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy...more

09 Nov 2008- Pakistan- The issue of legalizing homosexuality has led to heated arguments in the corridors of power in New Delhi...more

From Finland with lust

03 Nov 2008- The teenage Tom of Finland's gay fantasies from the 1940s of muscle-bound men have come to define a mainstream view of masculinity...more

03 Nov 2008- The British comedian, who is working on a film based on Bruno...more

Malaysian police detain 70 in gay sex party raids

02 Nov 2008- Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police have detained more than 70 male sex workers and their customers when they raided four parties in progress Saturday evening...more

30 Oct 2008- David Beckham was "proud" to be called the gayest straight and blackest white man in Britain...more

30 0ct 2008- London, England- Stonewall today launched the fourth and biggest edition of Starting Out, Britain’s national lesbian and gay recruitment guide...more

30 Oct 2008- London, England- The BBC today denied it had been "homophobic" after a complaint was made to police about an episode of Have I Got News For You...more

28 Oct 2008- Manchester, England- Anyone who may have information about the death of a man in a Manchester...more

23 Oct 2008- Istanbul, Turkey- A suspect caught selling films of group and gay sex was judged by an Istanbul court not to have been selling material portraying unnatural sex...more

23 Oct 2008- Austria- Jörg Haider, governor of Austria’s Carinthia province and a leader among far-right European politicians, crashed his car and died after leaving a gay bar...more

22 Oct 2008- An asylum seeker blackmailed a GP after claiming that he woke up to a gay sex ordeal in his surgery, the General Medical Council heard...more

22 Oct 2008- London, England- Noisy lesbian club meetings are among a catalogue of complaints giving sleepless nights to neighbours...more

22 Oct 2008- Eastern Cape, South Africa- The young woman who witnessed her friend being beaten to death by a mob of 20 men in Khayelitsha more than two years ago...more

MEPs asks Nigerian government to intervene against harassment of gay activists

21 Oct 2008 – Brussels- The European Parliament’s all-party ‘intergroup’ on gay and lesbian rights has told the Nigerian Government that the increased level of homophobia in the country...more

Madhur hesitates over gay kiss

21 Oct 2008- India- No one from mainstream cinema dared after that to bring homosexual love out of the closet onto the screen...more

20 Oct 2008- A judge has ruled that a lesbian woman from Uganda may remain in the UK...more

20 Oct 2008- At home, Vladimir Putin is seen as macho. In Italy, a gay celebrity is calling him the sexiest man in the world...more

20 Oct 2008- New Delhi, India- Law Minister H R Bhardwaj on Sunday refused to comment on any aspect of a matter related to gay sex pending in the Delhi High Court...more

18 Oct 2008- Cardiff, Wales- ONE of Wales’ most popular family swimming pools is being targeted by gay men cruising for sex, we can reveal today...more

16 Oct 2008- Queen Latifah has admitted that she doesn’t care if people think she’s gay...more

16 Oct 2008- The 2009 calendar includes images of gay men embracing on a church altar wearing nothing but dog collars, a transsexual crucifixion, and a naked angel striking a provocative pose...more

15 Oct 2008- Watching Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal rolling around in a tent in Ang Lee's groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain...more

15 Oct 2008- India- The Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Centre for relying on religious texts to justify the prohibition on gay sex...more

15 Oct 2008- Kampala, Uganda- “Many Ugandans today think that money is everything and are ready to do anything be it immoral...more

14 Oct 2008- Accra, Ghana- Homosexual prostitutes, who were hitherto said to be operating under cover...more

14 Oct 2008- South Africa- A 39-Year-old man has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing a Port Elizabeth businessman with gay sex video footage...more

13 Oct 2008- Netherlands- A trial concerning a bizarre crime - now known in the Netherlands as ‘the HIV case...more

10 Oct 2008- Lilongwe, Malawi - The Malawi Gay Rights Movement (Magrim) will have an audience with President Bingu Mutharika, Nyasa Times has learnt...more

Complaints pour into BBC after EastEnders screens gay kiss before the watershed

09 Oct 2008- London, England- The BBC has been flooded with 145 complaints after screening a gay kiss on EastEnders...more

08 Oct 2008- Nigeria- A Nigerian man said he loves his son who founded a ministry for gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people, but does not agree with him...more

08 Oct 2008- Oslo, Norway- Despite a gender-neutral marriage law coming into force in January, Norwegian bishops have decided to say no...more

08 Oct 2008- Uganda- The editor of a website that documents the violence and intimidation suffered by the gay community in Uganda has won a prestigious prize...more

06 Oct 2008- UK- MP Chris Bryant who famously sent a photo of himself wearing only Y-fronts to a gay dating website has been appointed Deputy Leader of the Commons...more

Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood to be quizzed over immigration marriage claims

06 Oct 2008- UK- Strictly Come Dancing judge Aussie Craig Revel Horwood will be quizzed by immigration chiefs after claims that he lied to stay in Britain...more

06 Oct 2008- Dakar, Senegal- Pape Mbaye gets a lot of attention. Even in jaded New York, people watch the way he walks...more

06 Oct 2008- Johannesburg, South Africa- Joburg Gay Pride 2008 was celebrated by an estimated ten thousand gays, lesbians, friends and families on Rosebank streets...more

04 Oct 2008- Kampala, Uganda- Uganda's controversial ethics and integrity minister who last month called for the wearing of miniskirts to be made illegal...more

04 Oct 2008- Nigeria- Christian leaders in the South Senatorial district of Delta State have expressed shock at the infiltration into the country of the Gay Movement...more

04 Oct 2008- India- A PIL was filed by the gay rights activists sometime ago in the Delhi high court to decriminalize homosexuality and accord the gay rights...more

04 Oct 2008- Kampala, Uganda- Uganda's controversial ethics and integrity minister who last month called for the wearing of miniskirts to be made illegal...more

03 Oct 2008- Johannesburg, South AfricaThousands of marchers will converge at the Zoo Lake on Saturday to take part in the 19th annual lesbian and gay parade...more

03 Oct 2008- St Petersburg, Russia- Authorities in Saint Petersburg, Russia have effectively shut down the first-ever gay film festival...more

30 Sept 2008- A gay Ugandan man one of 150 mostly HIV-positive delegates who remained in Toronto after an International. Aids Conference was declared a refugee by a board yesterday...more

30 Sept 2008- Iran- The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has done an astonishing volte-face by admitting that there are lesbian and gay people in Iran...more

30 Sept 2008- Russia- A scheduled gay and lesbian themed film festival in St. Petersburg, Russia has produced a wave of criticism and controversy...more

30 Sept 2008- India- The Delhi High Court said that problem of HIV cannot be solved by curbing gay sex and pulled up the Centre for seeking the retention of penal provisions against homosexuality...more

30 Sept 2008- Uganda- A total of 39 bishops, are in the country to defend the Global Anglican Future Conference Movement...more

29 Sept 2008- Athens, Greece- Dozens of gays and lesbians protested outside parliament on Monday against the conservative government's attempt to overturn Greece's first same-sex marriages...more

McConnell in middle of gay rights row in Malawi

28 Sept 2008- Malawi- Jack Mcconnell has found himself stuck in the middle of an ugly homophobic spat over gay rights in Malawi just months before he takes up his new post as the British High Commissioner...more

Relative Values: Will Young and his twin brother, Rupert

28 Sept 2008- UK- Will Young, 29, has become one of the UK’s top pop acts since winning Pop Idol in 2002...more

27 Sept 2008- India- The decision taken by the Union government of not scraping Section 377 of Indian Penal code...more

Homosexuality in Cameroon

26 Sept 2008- Cameroon- In Cameroon, homosexual acts are punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a fine...more

26 Sept 2008- Bosnia's first gay pride festival has been forced underground after at least 10 people were injured...more

11 Sept 2008- A gay asylum seeker believes he will be killed if he is returned to Uganda on Sunday – because of his sexuality....more

11 Sept 2008- England, UK- Mersyside MP Angela Eagle has announced she will “marry” her female partner...more

11 Sept 2008- Joel Edwards, whose organisation says homosexuality is morally wrong, is an equality commissioner...more

10 Sept 2008- South Africa- The Dutch Reformed Church Moreleta Park has decided to abide by the court ruling, and will pay gay music teacher Johan Strydom about R87 000 in damages and loss of income...more

10 Sept 2008- Pretoria, South Africa- A Pretoria man trying to divorce his spouse has turned to the Pretoria High Court for help after the "male spouse" disappeared 10 months after they wed...more

07 Sept 2008- Italy- In a country where masculine values hold sway, gay recruits to Italy's police and armed forces have avoided going public about their sexuality...more

06 Sept 2008- Accra, Ghana- One thing you will be amazed about him when you see him perform is his ability to switch voices...more

06 Sept 2008- it's curiously homophobic - there are loads of gay jokes, “poofter” digs and gay sex jibes. It is so gay-obsessed...more

Tension mounts in Bosnia over gay festival

05 Sept 2008- Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Posters condemning homosexuals have appeared in Sarajevo ahead of this month's first-ever gay festival in Bosnia...more

02 Sept 2008- South Africa- Homosexuality remains illegal in most other African countries, and those found guilty of homosexual acts can be put to death in several countries...more

02 Sept 2008- Turin, Italy- Gay members of Italy's security forces will "come out" later this month and launch their own association, the first of its kind in the country...more

England Win Gay World Cup

01 Sept 2008- UK- It is the kind of news that would make you choke on your breakfast cereal but, believe it or not, England are champions of the world...more

01 Sept 2008- Pretoria, South Africa- A gay couple is livid after allegedly being turned away by a guesthouse because the lodge did not have a policy on homosexuals...more

29 Aug 2008- Dakar, Senegal - Senegal has jailed a Belgian retiree and his male Senegalese domestic helper for two years for "homosexual marriage and acts against nature...more

29 Aug 2008- Plans to hold Bosnia's first gay festival during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan were denounced by the Muslim community...more

29 Aug 2008- South Africa- Division over homosexuality and women bishops does exist "across the spectrum" within the Anglican Church...more

28 Aug 2008 – Cape Town, South Africa- The trial of nine men accused of murdering a young lesbian more than two years ago has been postponed because one of the accused now wants a new attorney...more

28 Aug 2008- Pretoria, South Africa- A Pretoria High Court judge has awarded R87 000 to a music teacher sacked by his employer because he is in a gay relationship...more

27 Aug 2008- Football has always found it hard to tolerate perceived 'otherness'...more

27 Aug 2008- London, England- Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is launching ‘Connect’, a new low cost counselling service for gay or bisexual men...more

Romania launches online gay TV

26 Aug 2008- Bucharest, Romania- Homosexuals in Romania are to get their own online TV channel, dedicated to "the life and problems of the gay community...more

20 Aug 2008- Lilongwe, Malawi- Malawian homosexuals, who claim to have been oppressed for a long time, have formed an association, the Malawi Gay Rights Movement (Magrim)...more

20 Aug 2008- Manchester,England- Details of road closures during Manchester Gay Pride’s ‘Big Weekend’ and the Pride Parade have been unveiled today by the festival organisers...more

19 Aug 2008- Uganda- The following is an ‘open letter’ from a gay Ugandan to the President of his country, Yoweri Museveni. It comes after President Museveni publicly praised Anglican bishops for resisting homosexuality...more

09 Aug 2008- Ghana- The Ghana Prisons Service cannot give out condoms to gay prisoners to practice safe sex as part of its prisons HIV/AIDS education...more

08 Aug 2008- India- Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Wednesday advocated that homosexuality be legalised in India...more

04 Aug 2008- Uganda- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is concerned over the safety of three Ugandan gay rights activists...more

31 July 2008- Riyadh: Police have arrested 55 people at a party allegedly held by homosexuals at a farm near Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia...more

30 July 2008-Nairobi, Kenya- Rights groups on Wednesday urged Uganda to investigate the alleged detaining and torture of a gay rights activist on trial...more

30 July 2008- South Africa- The rainbow gay and lesbian flag flew high when about 200 protesters gathered in Joburg on Tuesday...more

Not all plain sailing for Gay Pride

30 July 2008- Netherlands- Amsterdam is gearing up for the high point of gay pride week this Saturday when lesbians, gays and their friends take part in a boat parade...more

29 July 2008- England- A Gay couple have won £5,000 compensation after an estate agent wrote the word “lesbians” in an advert for their house...more

28 July 2008 – Kampala, Uganda- One of three people who demonstrated at an AIDS international conference in Uganda has disappeared...more

28 July 2008- London, England- A group of senior Anglican clergy has told the Lambeth Conference...more

Gay MP ties the knot

28 July 2008- Carol Thatcher and William Hague were among the 200 guests when Rutland and Melton MP Alan Duncan celebrated his civil partnership...more

27 July 2007- Lagos, Nigeria- As Anglican bishops from across the world meet in their spiritual home in England, the Nigerian church...more

22 July 2008- London- Naomi Campbell is rumoured to be starting her community service at an HIV and Aids charity...more

Gay sex games DJ Kevin Greening leaves £500,000 to lover... but nothing to his mother

22 July 2008- London, England- A former BBC Radio 1 breakfast show DJ who died during a gay bondage session wrote his mother out of his will, it has emerged...more

Fourth Moscow gay pride to take place on ‘Eurovision day’ in Russia’s capital

22 July 2008- Moscow, Russia- Next year’s Moscow Pride is set to be staged on May 16 – the same day as the Eurovision song contest finals...more

21 July 2008- Coronation Street is set to introduce a new face in Weatherfield...more

'Harassed for being a Christian’- the policeman who objected to gay ribbons and is turning to a tribunal

20 July 2008- UK- A policeman is taking his force to an employment tribunal, claiming that he has been harassed because of his Christian beliefs...more

18 July 2008- German- The homophobic lyrics of several Jamaican reggae musicians has moved the German government to consider blacklisting them and restrict their sales...more

17 July 2008- Zimbabwe-"You're the first caller I've had for a few days now," Samuel Matsikure tells me from the GALZ health centre in Harare...more

17 July 2008- UK-A driving school boss called a worker "gay boy" and said he was lucky to have a job, a tribunal has heard...more

16 July 2008- Uganda's State Minister for Ethics and Integrity Dr James Nsaba Buturo has said priests like the Achbishop of the Church of Uganda Luke Orombi who are opposed to gays should not get intimidated...more

10 July 2008- The new superhero movie Hancock, starring Will Smith, has been accused of homophobia by US gay rights campaigners...more

10 July 2008- UK- The founder of the Gay Police Association has hit out at local schools for declining to attend a conference tackling homophobic bullying...more

Gays Want to Kill Me, Says Orombi

09 July 2008- Kampala, Uganda- Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi yesterday said he fears for his life because of the campaign he has waged against homosexuals...more

08 July 2008- UK- A Gay couple in East London are furious with the owners of a wedding venue who turned the lovebirds away for “religious” reasons...more

07 July 2008- Kenya- An Anglican bishop has threatened to quit the church over gay marriages...more

07 July 2008- SAS Scandinavian Airlines has launched a gay site on its international, www.flysas.com...more

07 July 2008- UK – Harriet Harman MP, government minister of equalities and deputy leader of the Labour Party...more

06 July 2008- Kampala, Uganda- Excommunicated pro-gay bishop Christopher Ssenyonjo of the Church of Uganda has been invited to the Lambeth Conference...more

Gay asylum seeker to be thrown out of UK

06 July 2008- Scotland- A GAY asylum seeker has been refused permission to stay in Scotland and told he is likely to be safe in his homophobic homeland provided he behaves "discreetly"...more

03 July 2008- Spain- The President of Congress, José Bono, in the suit, with the gay and lesbian representatives today...more

The Internet, not gay bishops will kill off the churches

03 July 2008- Kenya- On Sunday, Conservative Anglican leaders ended a rebel summit without formally breaking away from the global Anglican Communion which they criticise...more

03 July 2008- India- THERE were no half-naked dancers, pink floats, or sailor boys locked in clinches; but India’s gay-pride parade was ground-breaking enough without them...more

03 July 2008 –Hamburg, German- Gene Robinson may have to share his title as the church’s sole “gay” bishop, as a gay Hamburg cleric has been selected by the Lutheran Church in Germany...more

Bishop attacks anti-gay movement

03 July 2008- Uk-The Bishop of Durham has attacked the Anglican traditionalists behind a new movement against what they consider liberal views on homosexuality...more

03 July 2008- UK- The British government is being urged to "initiate urgent reforms to the asylum system to end the injustice whereby many genuine gay refugees being sent back to viciously homophobic countries like Iran...more

02 July 2008- UK- Homosexual soldiers are to be paid travelling expenses to attend Gay Pride parades, while troops are not allowed to claim for trips to the Queen's Garden Party...more

02 July 2008- The brother of the president of the United Arab Emirates has been found guilty of beating with his belt an American man who he thought had suggested he was gay...more

30 June 2008- Brno, Czech Republic- The first-ever gay parade in Czech Republic took to the streets of Brno on Saturday...more

30 June 2008-Delhi, India Hundreds of gay rights supporters have marched in the Indian capital, Delhi, for the first time...more

30 June 2008- Sunderland, UK- A gay man threatened to kill the woman he feared his partner was going to leave him for...more

28 June 2008- Nairobi, Kenya – Kenyan Anglican clergy, gays and allies have sent a strong message of affirmation and inclusiveness to the bishops...more

24 June 2008- Minsk, Belarus- There is widespread concern among the gay community in Belarus following an increased number of homophobic attacks over the past four weeks...more

23 June 2008- London- England’s home secretary has said that gays living in the U.K. and seeking asylum from persecution in Iran will be safe in their home country as long as they stay in the closet...more

Nine Bishops Attend Anti-Gay Gathering in Israel

23 June 2008- Kigali, Rwanda- Nine Rwandan Anglican bishops led by Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini are among the 300 Anglican bishops who are meeting at the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem, Israel...more

23 June 2008- UK- A tv advert for Heinz mayonnaise showing two men sharing a kiss has sparked outrage from viewers...more

23 June 2008- Bucharest, Romania- A pro-family organisation in Romania has asked the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...more

23 June 2008- London, England- Gay Catholics from all over the country will be parading behind a 'Proudly Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered & Proudly Catholic' banner...more

19 June 2008- Moscow, Russia – Tverskoi District Court of Moscow this afternoon dismissed the complaint by Moscow Pride organisers against the ban of one of the Gay Pride marches for tolerance and respect...more

18 June 2008- London, England-They are the first celebrity gay couple to separate following a civil partnership and could prove a test case for gay divorces...more

Norway passes law approving gay marriage

17 June 2008- Oslo, Norway -Gay couples in Norway will be granted the same rights as heterosexuals to marry, adopt and undergo artificial insemination under a new equality law passed Tuesday...more

11 June 2008- Gambia- A leading human rights group has appealed to Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to disavow his reported comments encouraging violence against gays...more

Don't Legalise Gay Acts, Says Bishop

10 June 2008- Kampala, Uganda- Mukono diocesan bishop Eria Paul Luzinda has cautioned the government against legalising gay activities and described such culture as backward and non- indigenous...more

10 June 2008- UK- A gay church worker claims he was bullied out of his job...more

Orombi Wants Pro-Gay Bishops to Apologise

05 June 2008- Kampala, Uganda- Pro-gay bishops must apologise and renounce their support for sexual perversion in order to reunite the Church...more

04 June 2008- Gambia- The two Spanish tourists arrested on Friday in The Gambia, accused of having made "dishonest propositions" to engage into homosexual relationships...more

04 June 2008- Kampala, Ugandan police arrested three gay rights demonstrators who stormed a major AIDS...more

03 June 2008- Gambia- Two Spanish men have been arrested in The Gambia accused of making homosexual advances to taxi drivers, police say...more

Gay and Muslim in South Africa

30 May 2008- South Africa- Homosexuality remains a taboo in much of the vast Islamic world. Most Muslim clerics condemn homosexuality outright...more

27 May 2008- Morocco- When one thinks of Morocco, one usually thinks of famous western expats like Paul Bowles, Jean Genet, Jack Kerouac, Joe Ortonand Allen Ginsberg...more

Gay victims of Third Reich are honoured in Berlin with stark memorial

28 May 2008- Berlin, German- A controversial monument honouring the many thousands of homosexual men and women...more

27 May 2008- Riga, Latvia- Gay Pride events in Latvia should be seen as unlawful and be banned, Roman Catholic Cardinal Jânis Pujâts has said in an open letter to the government...more

Gay Pride hailed a success

26 May 2008- Birmingham, England- Drizzle failed to dampen the dazzle, glitz and glamour of the annual Birmingham pride event...more

26 May 2008- So Russia has won the Eurovision song (read geo-political beauty) contest with “Believe” sung by Dima Bilan...more

Gay pastor challenges Archbishop Okogie

25 May 2008- Nigeria-Less than seven days after Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie declared Nigerian gay pastor, Rev. Jide Macaulay an insane person ignorant of biblical principles...more

23 May 2008- Gambia- Gay rights activists have condemned Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's threat to behead homosexuals...more

23 May 2008- Russia has joined several other nations in allowing sexually active gay men to donate blood...more

23 May 2008- London, England- Two teenagers have been sent to prison following an unprovoked attack on men they believed to be gay...more

21 May 2008- London, England- Some Christian registrars fear their lives will be made a misery...more

21 May 2008- London, England- Britain said Tuesday that it is granting asylum to a gay Iranian teenager who fears that he could face execution if forced to return to his homeland...more

21 May 2008- UK- A North-East gay, lesbian and bisexual festival has dumped Celebrity Big Brother star Pete Burns after he stormed out of a gay pride event in the Canary Islands...more

19 May 2008- Belgrade - The last time gay men and women took to the streets of Serbia's capital, they were beaten by nationalist gangs while police looked on...more

19 May 2008 -Brighton, England- Gay men an women seeking asylum in the United Kingdom face detention and having to deal with homophobia...more

19 May 2008- Rome, Italy- Italy's new minister for equal opportunities has angered rights groups by refusing to back a "gay pride" march because, she said, gays no longer suffer discrimination in Italy...more

Solitary Gay Pickets General Prosecution Headquarters in Russia’s Capital Following Ban

18 May 2008- Moscow, Russia- Legal difficulties prevented more than one person picketing the office of the General Prosecutor in Moscow...more

18 May 2008- Paris -France plans to ask the United Nations to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised around the globe...more

15 May 2008- Nairobi, Kenya- In a downtown Nairobi salon, tucked away in nondescript office building, women sit under hair dryers and gossip...more

15 May 2008- Stockholm, Sweden -Stockholm bills itself as the capital of Scandinavia. You may get some argument about that from other Scandinavian cities...more

Hijacking of UN Human Rights Body by Islamic Bloc Threatens International Gay Rights, Say Humanists

15 May 2008- London, England – The human rights and safety of gay people around the world are being compromised and endangered by the United Nations...more

15 May 2008- South Africa- Imagine this! One minute two men are caught up in a heated argument about homosexuality...more

15 May 2008- Blackpool, England- Plans for a new men-only sauna in Blackpool town centre have finally been given the go-ahead...more

14 May 2008- UK- The Archbishop of Dublin has urged Church of Ireland members not to split over the issue of ordaining gay men as bishops...more

14 May 2008-Riga, Latvia – An agreement has been struck between the Riga City Council and organisers of this month’s Gay Pride for the location...more

13 May 2008- 'Sex and the City' star Cynthia Nixon wants to wed her partner Christine Marinoni - because gay weddings are 'rebellious'...more

12 May 2008- UK- The desperate plight of LGBT asylum seekers will be explored in a panel discussion organised by The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association...more

08 May 2008- Ghana- Human Rights Non-Governmental Organisations in Ghana have expressed concern about human rights abuses in the country...more

06 May 2008- Western Cape, South Africa- "Corrective Rape" at schools in the Western Cape is a growing concern, say non-governmental organisations...more

05 May 2008- Kenya- With all the attention the political strife and violence have brought Kenya this year, most probably don't think of its capital city as a party town...more

05 May 2008- South Africa- Thousands of people turned out to watch the eighth Pink Loerie Mardi Gras street parade through this Garden Route town on Saturday...more

Mr. Gay UK Kills and Eats His Friend

04 May 2008- Leeds, England- A 35-year-old former Mr. Gay UK contest winner, Anthony Morley, has been arrested for the murder of his friend...more

01 May 2008- South Africa- Pink Police are to prevent "improper and indecent conduct" during the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras parade through the Main Street in Knysna on Saturday...more

01 May 2008- Riga, Latvia- Following the outbursts of Latvian Integration Minister Oskars Kastēns last week on Riga Gay Pride parade...more

Nepal gets its first gay representative in parliament

01 May 2008- The wind of change that swept through Nepal in the form of a historic election this month, dethroned its king, once revered as god...more

30 Apr 2008- Birmingham, England- The largest gay and lesbian event in the country organised by Birmingham Pride will be without its crowd-pulling party piece this year...more

30 Apr 2008- The Anglican Communion's first gay bishop has criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury for the controversy surrounding his appointment...more

29 Apr 2008- Uganda- A Ugandan woman who was jailed, raped and tortured after it was discovered she was gay is fighting a decision by the Home Office to refuse her asylum...more

29 Apr 2008- Janet Jackson has been honoured for her work in the gay community, receiving the Vanguard Award at the 19th Annual GLAAD...more

25 Apr 2008- Brighton, England- Security has been stepped up at the city's main library after it was named as a hotspot for gay sex...more

25 Apr 2008- Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor have been spotted getting cosy at a gay bar - but it's all in the name of research...more

25 Apr 2008- Norway- The new poll carried out by Norstat for the newspaper Vårt Land found that 58 percent of those surveyed said they supported the new Marriage Act...more

25 Apr 2008- Riga, Latvia- Latvian HR Centre Minister is interfering and limiting the freedom of assembly...more

24 Apr 2008- UK- A British mother and daughter have been sentenced after being found guilty of harassing a gay couple in the town of Kingston, Kent County...more

23 Apr 2008- Cape Town, South Africa - Negotiations are underway for a gay couple accused of manufacturing the drug Kat to go on trial in plea-bargaining procedures...more

23 Apr 2008- Nigeria- Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi, of the Jos province has denied allegations that the leader of a group representing "Anglican'' homosexuals in the country was attacked...more

23 Apr 2008- Moscow, Russia- Moscow Mayor Yuri Lushkov has banned pride celebrations in Moscow, scheduled for next month...more

21 Apr 2008- A Supreme Court judge, an HIV treatment campaigner and an anti-apartheid activist all feature on a new website highlighting African heroes...more

'I'm gay' says TV trickster Derren

21 Apr 2008- UK- TV trickster Derren Brown has revealed that he is gay. Brown, who stars in Channel 4 series Mind Control...more

18 Apr 2008- CNN reporter Richard Quest was picked up in Central Park and admitted to cops that he had crystal meth in his pocket...more

18 Apr 2008- London, England- A gay airport security guard is in line for compensation after a female colleague was found by a tribunal to have sexually harassed him...more

18 Apr 2008- Johannesburg, South Africa- “No homosexuality in my house, I am a pastor.” These are the words of Pastor Ben Dlamini of Belgravia, Johannesburg, a former gay man...more

17 Apr 2008- Nigeria- Even in Africa a continent not known for its gay-friendly cultures or governments Nigeria stands out for the virulence and violence against gay men in particular as well as lesbians...more

South African Lesbian and Gay Community Concerned About Democracy Crisis in Zimbabwe

16 Apr 2008- The South African Lesbian and Gay Equality Project (LGEP), formerly known as the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality (NCGLE), is concerned about the deepening political...more

16 Apr 2008- Oslo, Norway- Norway’s religious groups took to the streets in Oslo on Saturday 12th...more

New project for black gay men seeks volunteers

10 Apr 2008- London, England- A grant from the Big Lottery Fun has allowed sexual health charity GMFA to launch a new three-year project targeting group that are disproportionately affected by HIV...more

09 Apr 2008- Cairo, Egypt- Five Egyptian men were sentenced Apr 9 to three years in prison for being gay. Four of the men were targeted by police because of their HIV status...more

09 Apr 2008- Archbishop Desmond Tutu told an international LGBT human rights group that it has been impossible to keep quiet...more

Transsexual soldier to enter Big Brother house

08 Apr 2008- UK- A former soldier who became the first Army officer to have full gender reassignment surgery has been lined up to appear as a contestant on Big Brother this summer...more

08 Apr 2008- Egypt- Amnesty International As five more men face trial in Cairo on 9 April in a widening and dangerous police crackdown on people living with HIV/Aids...more

08 Apr 2008- Weddings have been suspended at a 300-year-old church in north London in protest at "unjust" religious marriage rights of same-sex couples...more

08 Apr 2008- Copenhagen, Denmark- A special graveyard has been opened for Danish homosexuals in Copenhagen where the organisation Rainbow has reserved 36 places for funeral urns, reports said...more

Outrage over Alfred Hrdlicka's gay Jesus

07 Apr 2008- Pictures depicting Jesus being fondled and the Apostles groping each other have caused outrage after they were displayed in a museum...more

Police detain gay rights campaigner as Olympic touch is paraded through London

06 Apr 2008– London, England- Peter Tatchell, the gay human rights campaigner, was detained by police this afternoon in London...more

06 Apr 2008- The European Union's top court ruled this week that a same sex partner may be entitled to the work pension of his or her deceased partner...more

Bishop demands lesbian be sacked from a Catholic brotherhood for her manifestly scandalous conduct

05 Apr 2008- Spain- Locals in the La Mancha town of Abenójar are supporting the 54 year old who has just married her lesbian partner of more than 15 years...more

04 Apr 2008- Vilnius, Lithuania- A European ministers' forum has said public rallies by Lithuanian sexual minorities...more

01 Apr 2008- Same-sex partners have a right to the other's pension in the case of death, the European Union's highest court has said...more

Kylie in split from 'gay husband'?

01 Apr 2008- Kylie Minogue has reportedly fallen out with her 'gay husband'...more

Find your nearest gay bar, accom, club as well as dating during your travel within Europe and Africa…more

26 Mar 2008- London, England -Thousands of gaymen risk getting HIV through internet organised "barebac" sex...more

26 Mar 2008- Rabat, Morocco - A Moroccan court fined the country's leading newspaper a record 6.0 million dirhams on Tuesday...more

26 Mar 2008- St. Petersburg, Russia- Representatives of non-traditional sexual orientations plan to gather in Moscow this fall to discuss their community strategy...more

25 Mar 2008- Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been named the recipient of a prestigious award...more

Egyptian government accused of HIV witch-hunt

23 Mar 2008- Egypt- STIGMATISING HIV-positive men will not help the Egyptian government contain the spread of the disease...more

23 Mar 2008 – Nigeria-A gay leader of the Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN) group says he feared for his life after a mob attack outside a funeral ceremony in Port Harcourt...more

Mayors of Riga and Tallin fail to sign- up to gay freedom of assembly initiative

21 Mar 2008 - Riga, Latvia- The mayors of the capitals of Estonia and Latvia have refused to sign up to the International Lesbian and Gay Association-Europe...more

20 Mar 2008- Sheikh Falah bin Sultan bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, brother of the President of the United Arab Emirates...more

19 Mar 2008- Daniel Craig would only do a gay scene in the new James Bond movie if he was guaranteed an Oscar, says his 'Layer Cake' co-star...more

19 Mar 2008- Harare, Zimbabwe- The Zanu-PF election campaign sank to unprecedented levels of moral depravity...more

19 Mar 2008- London, England- The overwhelming majority of gay men and Africans with HIV in London have disclosed their HIV status to at least one other person...more

17 Mar 2008- Camp comedian Alan Carr says fame has brought him a host of raunchy offers – from sex-starved WOMEN...more

Top City law firms unite for first gay summit

17 Mar 2008- UK- InterLaw, the first diversity network that aims to connect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) networks across all law firms...more

17 Mar 2008- Paris, France Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe romped to an easy re-election on Sunday...more

Proudly introducing gay Tel Aviv

16 Mar 2008- Israeli city invited to participate in gay World Outgames in Copenhagen. Tel Aviv reps hope to put city on map of international gay tourism...more

South African scribe appeals for free Gay India'

15 Mar 2008- Wearing a mustard and pink sari, waistband, vermillion mark and a moustache, South African journalist Adam was the centre of attraction...more

14 Mar 2008 – Oslo, Norway- The Norwegian government proposed a marriage law Friday that would give gay couples the same rights as heterosexuals, including church weddings...more

13 Mar 2008 -Ksar El Kebir, Morocco - When rumors of a "gay wedding" spread through the northern Moroccan town of Ksar el Kebir...more

13 Mar 2008- Homosexuality is illegal in the Islamic republic. Fearing for his life, Kazemi sought asylum in Britain, but his claim was rejected...more

13 Mar 2008- If our government has any ambitions for social justice, now is the time for it to stand up to the Catholic Church and say "No more"...more

13 Mar 2008- Dutch council officials will permit gay sex in public areas but fine dog owners who let their pets off the leash in Amsterdam's Vondelpark...more

08 Mar 2008- Three British Porn films, which feature bareback sex, have been withdrawn from sale following an investigation into the health risks of unprotected sex...more

07 Mar 2008- Tunis, Tunisia - Homosexual men living with HIV/AIDS In the Arab world face a twin taboo...more

Stephanie's fight against gay hate

07 Mar 2008- Eastbourne, England- A Police Community Support Officer has taken on a new role to help the local gay community fight hate crime...more

06 Mar 2008- Botswanan trans-lesbian Prisca Mogapi knew she needed to come out to her family, but couldn’t find the right words...more

06 Mar 2008- Alec Baldwin has slammed his own brother in a letter to a popular U.S. gay publication...more

Princess Máxima of the Netherlands has leant her support to a gay rights campaign

05 Mar 2008- The 36-year-old princess attended a meeting today (05.03.08) to witness officials from the country's four major cities and the Dutch government sign an agreement to improve the social acceptance of homosexuals...more

02 Mar 2008- Sydney, New South Wales - Robberies in Hyde Park and drug offences headed the list of offences...more

01 Mar 2008- Kenya- A mass boycott of the Anglican Church to the 10-year gathering is imminent following sharp criticism of the church’s leadership...more

29 Feb 2008- It's always mildly enjoyable watching the liberal left come face to face with the inherent contradictions in their dogmas...more

Gay senior policeman is denied promotion 'after revealing graphic details of personal life on Facebook

29 Feb 2008- England- A senior police officer has been denied promotion to chief inspector level because he posted personal information about his gay lifestyle...more

28 Feb 2008- London, England- While it is perfectly acceptable for tabloid newspapers in the UK to titillate their readers with female breasts and nipples galore without a murmur...more

28 Feb 2008- Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe was left stunned when he was presented with a prestigious London theatre prize - and a full-on gay kiss...more

27 Feb 2008– A school governing body yesterday apologised, unreservedly, for the homophobic comments made by a head teacher which forced a young gay teacher to resign...more

27 Feb 2008- Tel Aviv, Israel- A full dance floor in a South Tel Aviv nightclub, replete with its share of drag queens. Ostensibly another Friday night of gay men having a good time...more

26 Feb 2008 -Maputo, Mozambique - An African lesbian group on Tuesday called on governments in the largely conservative continent to stop treating homosexuals like criminals...more

26 Feb 2008- Uganda- The Anglican church in Uganda yesterday threatened to leave the worldwide communion unless the US Episcopal church condemned homosexuality...more

26 Feb 2008- Morocco came under activist fire again today. The government got some flack last month for that whole anti-gay arrest thing...more

26 Feb 2008- Katmandu, India - At least five Nepali gay men are contesting this year's elections in the hope of shattering taboos in the conservative nation, a gay candidate said...more

25 Feb 2008- Dakar, Senegal- Dozens of Senegalese homosexuals are reported to have fled to the neighbouring countries...more

22 Feb 2008- London, England- star Aaron Sidwell is being written out of the soap - as his character struggles with the fact that he could be bisexual...more

22 Feb 2008- Dakar, Senegal- After photos of a reported marriage ceremony between two men were published in a local magazine in Senegal...more

20 Feb 2008- Jerusalem - When a member of that community is also gay, the dilemma is complete...more

20 Feb 2008- England- Police investigating the murder of a man in public toilets at a popular cruising site for gays have recovered a knife...more

19 Feb 2008- Cape Town, South Africa- Bronx club owner Bruno Bronn has apologised to a black tourist from Belgium refused admission two weeks ago...more

Egypt police 'widen HIV arrests'

19 Feb 2008- Egyptian police have arrested four men suspected of being HIV positive, bringing the total detained in a recent crackdown to 12, rights groups say...more

18 Feb 2007- Khartoum,Sudan - When Ali started blogging that he was Sudanese and gay, he did not realize he was joining a band of African and Middle Eastern gays and lesbians...more

Gay Iranian teen asylum seeker goes on hanger strike as he faces return to UK

18 Feb 2008- London- Mehdi, the 19-years-old gay Iranian who fled the United Kingdom last year when the Home Office ordered his deportation to Iran...more

17 Feb 2008- Kampala, Uganda- THE contention over homosexuality has returned to rattle the unity of the worldwide Anglican Communion ahead of the Lambeth Conference...more

Algerian transsexual returns to Alicante after government revokes deportation order

17 Feb 2008- Application for asylum is one avenue to avoid returning to Algeria for possible prosecution as a homosexual...more

16 Feb 2008- Cape Town South Africa- The Cape Town's pink community is gearing up for another Cape Town Pride Festival as revellers from across the country descend on the city...more

15 Feb 2008- South Africa-The owner of the Bronx gay club says a black tourist was refused admission over the weekend not because of his skin colour, but because he had "caused trouble" there before...more

15 Feb 2008- Dakar, Senegal- "We want homosexuals to be wiped out in this country...more

Gay Row - Ugandan Bishops Boycott UK Conference

15 Feb 2008- Kampala, Uganda- Bishop in Uganda on Wednesday announced a boycott of the July Lambeth conference...more

12 Feb 2008- Cape Town, South Africa- A Belgian tourist barred from a gay bar in Green Point, allegedly because of his skin colour...more

12 Feb 2008- Sweden- A Swedish appeals court has fined a kennel owner $3,100 (20,000 kronor) for refusing to sell a puppy to a woman because she is a lesbian, the state news agency said...more

12 Feb 2008- London, England- An Anglican bishop has been ordered to pay a heavy fine and undergo “equal-opportunies training” for refusing to approve the hiring of an openly homosexual man...more

11 Feb 2008- South Africa - The National Inspectorate of the SAPS will take "decisive action" against police officers who mock or intimidate gay people who try to report homophobic crimes...more

06 Feb 2008- Egypt- HIV-positive Egyptian men are tortured and chained to hospital beds while awaiting unfair homosexuality trials...more

06 Feb 2008- Dakar, Senegal- Five people detained this week in a probe in Senegal over alleged death threats against the editor of a magazine which ran an article on a homosexual wedding...more

05 Feb 2008-Harare, Zimbabwe -Two churchgoers were assaulted when thugs aligned to troubled Anglican bishop attempted to prevent his successor...more

05 Feb 2008- London, England- A BBC Radio 4 presenter drugged and raped a man he met at a New Year party after inviting him back to see his art collection...more

04 Feb 2008- Senegal- Police in Senegal have arrested several men following the publication of pictures claiming to depict a wedding ceremony between two men...more

Police bust 'gay' party

04 Feb 2008- India- The Thane police on Saturday night raided a party at a farmhouse in the Yeoor Hills following a tip that it had been organised through a website for homosexuals...more

03 Feb 2008- London, England- On-off pop queen Liz McClarnon of Atomic Kitten showed her ugly side last night as she stuck her tongue out at the G-A-Y...more

Moldova gay bashing victim granted EU asylum after police brutality

03 Feb 2008- A British judge has documented evidence of police beatings and general prejudice against gays in Moldova...more

23 Jan 2008 - Australian actor Heathcliff Andrew Ledger was a superstar who was still learning how to live in the fishbowl of constant media attention...more

23 Jan 2008- Warsaw– While gay men and women welcomed this weeks ruling by the European Court of Human Rights on adoption by gay men and women...more

21 Jan 2008- Ireland- Trinity College Dublin's annual Rainbow Week begins this Monday, 21st January, with a demonstration calling for recognition of marriage rights for same-sex couples...more

19 Jan 2008- It comes with the conjugal territory that you sometimes find yourself signed up to a joint enterprise that you would never in your life have agreed to as an independent person of sound mind...more

18 Jan 2008- RABAT - Moroccan appeals court upheld prison sentences for six men jailed for "homosexuality", lawyer Mohamed Sebbar told AFP today...more

3 Sentenced in Cameroon for Being Gay

16 Jan 2008- Yaounde, Cameroon -Three men convicted of homosexuality a crime in Cameroon were sentenced to six months' hard labor, their lawyer said Wednesday...more

16 Jan 2008- London, England- A tribunal that banned the naming of a gay security guard and a woman who he said sexually harassed him...more

11 Jan 2008- Cape Town, South Africa - A gay man who had sex on the beach with three male prostitutes but was unable to pay was robbed...more

11 Jan 2008- Members of Youth Advocacy Group of the Republic of Karelia have addressed the local parliament with a written demand to legalize same-sex marriages...more

10 Jan 2008- Manchester, England- Manchester City Council has been hailed as Britain's top gay-friendly local authority for the fourth consecutive year...more

10 Jan 2008- British Museum Director Neil MacGregor, who is drawing thousands of visitors with an exhibition on the Chinese ruler Qin Shihuangdi...more

10 Jan 2008 – London will again send out a message to the world through it’s annual Gay Pride that it is a diverse capital city that is a safe place for gay men and women to live or to visit...more

09 Jan 2008- London, England- Stonewall named Pinsent Masons the most improved employer in the UK...more

O8 Jan 2008- Ghana- Homophobia is negative feelings about people who are (or appear to be) gay, lesbian, or bisexual...more

08 Jan 2008- UK- Actor Stephen Fry has lashed out at the way straight actors are praised for playing gay characters...more

07 Jan 2008- Egypt- Religious scholars in Egypt are outraged by a lesbian scene in a new movie...more

07 Jan 2008- London, UK- Sir Elton John is lending his support to former Met policeman Brian Paddick's bid to become London Mayor...more

07 Jan 2008- South Africa- I need your help. I have just turned 21 and I think I am gay. At the beginning of last year I met a guy at varsity who I really like...more

05 Jan 2008- Berlin- Six men whirled faster and faster in the centre of the nightclub...more

02 Jan 2008 - Sir Elton Jones has surprised fans by announcing he will play his first gig in the United Arab Emirates later this month. The flamboyantly gay star...more

01 Jan 2008- UK- Out and proud British actor Sir Ian McKellen has been chosen to receive his second honor by the Queen for services to acting and championing the causes of diversity...more

28 Dec 2007- Nigeria- Restless and daring AMAA ‘Best Director 2005,’ Dickson Iruegbu is set for another first...more

27 Dec 2007- David Beckham - who has confessed to wearing wife Victoria’s thongs, has been snapped wearing a sarong - and more recently donned some very sexy pants for Armani’s...more

Christmas Gift from Netherlands for Gay Iranian – One Way Ticket to UK

26 Dec 2007- It was not the Christmas present that a young gay Iranian wanted. A court in the Netherlands has ruled that Mehdi, the gay Iranian teenager...more

22 Dec 2007- Kathmandu - Nepal's top court has directed the government to frame laws to "safeguard the rights" of gays and lesbians...more

21 Dec 2007-London- A young gay Iranian, who fled the United Kingdom in fear after his asylum application with the Home Office’s Border and Immigration Agency failed earlier this year...more

20 Dec 2007- Morocco- Amid media hysteria and large and riotous anti-gay demonstrations in Morocco...more

20 Dec 2007- London- There has been a marked increase in the number of new cases of syphilis in Europe...more

20 Dec 2007- England- A Teenage girl behind a homophobic hate campaign has been punished for making two women's lives a misery...more

19 Dec 2007 -Cape Town, South Africa- A year after he was forced to issue an apology to gays for calling gay marriage "a disgrace", acquitted of rape...more

15 Dec 2007- UK- A YMCA worker made a homophobic remark to a woman and punched her on the forehead...more

14 Dec 2007- South Africa- The battle to lead South Africa's ruling party pits an Aids dissident against a rival who took a shower as a form of safe sex...more

11 Dec 2007 – Iran- A 21-year-old man was hanged in Iran's Kermanshah Central Prison on "anal rape" (ighab) charges 5th Dec despite a November order from the nation's chief justice...more

Protest for full gay civil marriage to be held in Dublin

11 Dec 2007- Ireland- A new Irish gay activist group called LGBT Noise is to organise its first protest in the company of Ann-Louise Gilligan and Katherine Zappone...more

10 Dec 2007- Prague - A touring exhibition that describes the history of homosexual movement for equality in the Czech Republic was unveiled on the occasion of the day of human rights...more

10 Dec 2007- New Year’s resolutions are usually crap, but here are seven things you can do to make 2008 the sexiest year ever...more

10 Dec 2007- Italy's top court for civil and criminal cases, the Supreme Court of Cassation, has ruled that a gay illegal immigrant from Senegal can remain in Italy...more

10 Dec 2007- Algeria- The Algerian association for the fight against Aids" AIDS Algeria" introduced a subversive book...more

09 Dec 2007- Scotland- One of Scotland's first gay marriages is on the rocks after the couple suffered a string of homophobic attacks...more

08 Dec 2007- South Africa- In the wake of the indecent sexual assault charge brought against gay icon Somizi Mhlongo...more

06 Dec 2007- UK- Generic bank, insurance and other financial forms are inadvertently outing gay couples, according to new research...more

Lesbians, Homosexuals Threaten Suit Against Govt

06 Dec 2007- Botswana- Attorney Duma Boko, has slapped the Attorney General, Athaliah Molokomme with a notice of intention to sue the department...more

06 Dec 2007- Rwanada- Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini has called on churches in the East African region to fight against homosexuality for the good of the society...more

06 Dec 2007 - Victoria Beckham has revealed she sleeps in the nude. The Spice Girls singer said she strips off when she gets into bed with husband David Beckham...more

06 Dec 2007- Scotland- A Scot died of a heart attack after he and his partner of 40 years were mugged in Benidorm...more

05 Dec 2007- Iran- The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said Wednesday that a 21 year old man spared from execution...more

04 Dec 2007- Malta- The European International Lesbian and Gay Association Annual Conference will be held in Malta in 2009...more

03 Dec 2007- UK- Christian convictions in their daily lives need to be assured that the expression of strong opinions on marriage or sexuality will not be illegal...more

Witnesses Stall Trial of Suspected Homosexuals

03 Dec 2007- Abuja, Nigeria- The absence of principal witnesses has again stalled the trial of 18 suspected homosexuals in Bauchi...more

03 Dec 2007- Belgium- Targeted action is now needed because more and more gay men in Belgium are becoming seropositive...more

02 Dec 2007- Russia - Nikolai Alekseev and 12 fellow Gays and Lesbians have been arrested this morning at 10am in Moscow while they attempted to vote...more

01 Dec 2007- Morocco-Protesters in Morocco rioted over the lavish wedding of a gay couple whose celebration reportedly included slaying a bull...more

01 Dec 2007- Cape Argus, South Africa- The gay sex industry is also thriving, with more and more people hooking up on the Internet...more

30 Nov 2007- Amsterdam, Netherlands- With the number of homophobic attacks rising in the Dutch metropolis...more

30 Nov 2007 – England- The Archbishop of Canterbury has encouraged gay Christians to continue to engage with their opponents in the ongoing row over human sexuality in the Anglican Communion...more

Activists seek same-sex rights equality

30 Nov 2007- Ireland - Gay rights activists will today highlight calls for full rights for same-sex couples...more

29 Nov 2007- Somalia- After the website Somali Gay Community was launched earlier this month, the staff behind the site has received death threats...more

Lithuanian authorities use security to ban gay events

29 Nov 2007- Vilnius, Lithuania- New rules passed by the city council in Vilnius will effectively outlaw gay marches and other events, according to Lithuanian gay rights advocates...more

28 Nov 2007-France - French police have detained a 68-year-old retired "drag queen" performer after the murders of 18 mainly gay men...more

27 Nov 2007- Brazzaville, Congo- Basic human rights for gay men and women and transgender people remains a problem in most of Africa...more

27 Nov 2007- India- “I've always had more gay fans than a female following," says Sushant Singh who's blissfully heterosexual in real life...more

Gay sex caught on camera

26 Nov 2007- Winchester, England- A controversial police sting that caught hundreds of men having sex in public loos...more

26 Nov 2007 – London, England- Organisers from the House of Homosexuality Culture counted approximately 900 visitors through the door...more

25 Nov 2007- Cape Town, South Africa- A gay psychology student who in July allegedly shot dead both his parents to spare them the grief of his planned suicide, is to go on trial in the Cape high court next year...more

Mindset against Gay community

24 Nov 2007- India- It's an issue that has been surrounded by controversy for generations and while activists fight for gay rights...more

24 Nov 2007- South Africa- Gay and lesbian people from all over the North West province are scheduled to participate in the gay March in Mafikeng later this morning...more

Gay, Clergy Clash At People's Space

23 Nov 2007- Kampala, Uganda- People advocating for the rights of homosexuals and those against the practice are using the People's Space at Hotel Africana in Kampala to air out their views...more

Fight Homosexuality, Says Sempa

22 Nov 2007 – Kampala, Uganda- Anti-gay activists, under the Rainbow Coalition against Homosexuality...more

22 Nov 2007- Amsterdam – The municipality of Amsterdam is launching an investigation into the perpetrators of crime against homosexuals...more

22 Nov 2007- UK- An 11-year-old boy has been given a final warning for homophobic behaviour towards a man in Dursley...more

Respect Gay Rights - People's Forum

22 Nov 2007- Kampala, Uganda-The Commonwealth People's Forum has proposed that the rights of minorities, including gays and lesbians, be recognised...more

20 Nov 2007- South Africa- A Vredenburg guesthouse owner who cancelled a gay couple's booking because her four-star establishment is "certainly not gay-friendly...more

20 Nov 2007- Rome - An Italian chorister who was forced to leave his church choir after publicly admitting he was gay has said he intends to bring his case to the Bishop...more

19 November – Somalia- A group of Somalis wrote their names in the genesis book of history at the weekend by launching the first-ever gay website...more

Help Africa's Gay Men; You'll Save Their Women Too

19 Nov 2007- Uganda- Terrible, the news that came out this week as we marked World Aids Day. Things are very bad in Africa, and the poorer parts of the world...more

12 Nov 2007- Hungary-Governing parties agree on tackling the issue of same-sex relationships, probably by introducing some form of legal partnership...more

09 Nov 2007- The announcement today that Glasgow beat out Abuja, a Nigerian city, for the 2014 Commonwealth Games...more

09 Nov 2007- The first study into the lives of gay and bisexual African men living with HIV in London describes the challenges they face in dealing with the complex and sometimes contradictory realities of life...more

09 Nov 2007- Kampala, Uganda- The Archbishop of Kampala Diocese, Dr Cyprian Lwanga has advised students not to indulge in homosexuality and lesbianism...more

Gay and other human rights issues make Nigeria unfit to host commonwealth games

08 Nov 2007, London- It would be wrong to award the 2014 Commonwealth Games to Abuja because of Nigeria’s bad record on human rights, Outrage! said yesterday...more

Britain's Mr. Bean Comes Out Against Legislation That Could Make Gay Jokes Illegal.

08 Nov 2007- London, England Britain’s Mr. Bean is waging war against proposed legislation that could make cracking jokes about gay people illegal...more

08 Nov 2007- Leeds, England- The lesbian soldier who claims she was pestered for sex by a male sergeant was caught frolicking with a gay squaddie, a tribunal heard yesterday...more

06 Nov 2007- Accra, Ghana- A Briton has been remanded in custody in Ghana for having sex with another man, the Foreign Office confirmed yesterday...more

06 Nov 2007- Warsaw- Polish gay and lesbian activist groups have requested a meeting with the country’s incoming prime minister, Donald Tusk, the leader of the center-right...more

McFly star sets fire to pubic hair at G-A-Y

05 Nov 2007- London, England- McFly's Danny Jones set his pubic hair on fire after performing at G-A-Y on Saturday...more

05 Nov 2007- Brussels - The number of same sex couples getting married continues to soar. More and more gays, lesbians and bisexuals are tying the knot...more

04 Nov 2007- A Teenager couple claim a bus driver threatened to dump them by the road for being gay...more

04 Nov 2007- Gay rights advocate Asma Jahangir, former United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions and now special rapporteur on religious intolerance...more

01 Nov 2007- Kampala, Uganda- Members of Parliament have asked the government to use the Chogm summit to speak out against homosexuality...more

31 Oct 2007- Cape Town, South Africa - A gay student shot dead his parents to spare them grief, according to a report handed up in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court on Wednesday...more

Sky One drops G-A-Y awards coverage

30 Oct 2007- London, England- Sky One has dropped plans to cover the G-A-Y club night's first awards ceremony...more

30 Oct 2007- President Bush met at the White House on Tuesday with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni for talks that focused on trade...more

30 Oct 2007 - Lithuania - Delegates of ILGA-Europe annual conference experience first-hand discrimination and resistance in Vilnius...more

29 Oct 2007- South Africa- The collective psychological response to the HIV pandemic by gay men in South Africa is a powerful sense of denial...more

28 Oct 2007- Kampala – A Uganda chapter of International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) has been launched in Uganda following a successful meeting attended by over 100 gay men and women, transgender people...more

28 Oct 2007- South Africa- A caller to a radio station was ranting about the gay and lesbian community: “What more do they want? They’ve got constitutional rights, they can get married and adopt kids, so what are they still whining about...more

26 Oct 2007- Vilnius An annual gay rights conference in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, was attacked with smoke bombs, after a rally in the city was banned...more

26 Oct 2007- UK- Three performers became infected with HIV last month during the production of a gay 'bareback' movie...more

More police at gay hotspot

26 Oct 2007- London, England -An increased police presence and volunteers providing advice on Hampstead Heath has been welcomed by the gay community...more

26 Oct 2007- Warsaw, Poland is set to change course after a turbulent two years under a government whose old-fashioned Catholic values and strident approach to the European Union...more

25 Oct 2007- Talkshow queen Oprah Winfrey dedicated her show Wednesday to how it's like to be gay around the world...more

25 Oct 2007 - Sweden- The Church of Sweden's governing body voted on Thursday in to retain the right to carry out legally binding weddings. When all the votes were counted, 161 delegates had accepted the proposal, with 74 against...more

24 Oct 2007- England- The High Court in London has overturned an order that a gay man from Algeria seeking asylum in the UK should be repatriated...more

24 Oct 2007- I have a girlfriend, but I also have sex with men. I haven’t really had any relationships with men, though I have had a few men that I’ve seen for few months or so...more

Gay gang nabbed by police following sex scam

24 Oct 2007- Russia- Moscow police have arrested a gang of three deaf, mute, gay prostitutes after they robbed a client who didn`t pay them all the money he owed...more

Christian foster parents condemn 'gay laws'

24 Oct 2007- UK- A Christian couple who have taken in 28 children have been forced to give up being foster parents after they refused to promote homosexuality...more

17 Oct 2007- London- A trader proposing a new set of public toilets in a popular north London entertainment district has come up with a novel way to sell the idea name them after gay playwright Joe Orton...more

17 Oct 2007- South Africa- The head of the Anglican church in South Africa, archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, has applauded a decision by the American wing of the church not to condone same-sex marriages...more

17 Oct 2007- EU - Georgia and Azerbaijan must stop discrimination and incitement to hatred and put in place an inclusive anti-discrimination law in line with Council of Europe and EU standards if they aspire to EU membership...more

16 Oct 2007- Manchester, UK- A campaigner against gay rights was locked in a police cell for eight hours after he refused to be served by a homosexual librarian...more

15 Oct 2007- Uganda- The Mufti, Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje wants gays marooned on an island in Lake Victoria until they die...more

15 Oct 2007- When I’m completely pissed after a night out and I don’t have enough cash to pay for my taxi home, or I don’t want to spend the money, I sometimes offer to suck off the driver instead...more

Vatican suspends cleric for tv gay talk

14 Oct 2007- Italy- Monsignor Tommaso Stenico has told the Associated Press that he is the Vatican official suspended after an elaborate sting...more

14 Oct 2007- Rajpipla ,Gujarat- An Indian prince who grew up in a bubble of privilege and protection will in two weeks’ time discuss the startling details of his life on the world’s most popular TV talk show...more

11 Oct 2007- Nigeria - Wasiu Olasunkani drops to his knees in the sacred grove, lowers his chin to his chest and turns his palms skyward: a gesture of thanks to a traditional water goddess...more

Plans for new anti-homophobic law outlined

10 Oct 2007- UK- British Justice Minister Jack Straw speaks as he's waiting for a meeting with High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy...more

1000s Celebrate Johannesburg Gay Pride

09 Oct 2007- Johannesburg, South Africa- An estimated five thousand gays and lesbians - and their friends and families - turned out for the 18th annual Joburg Pride Parade in Rosebank, Johannesburg, despite the cold rainy weather...more

Buturo Vows to Fight Homosexuality

08 Oct 2007- Kampala, Uganda- The Minister for Ethics and Integrity, James Nsaba Buturo, has vowed to block the demand for recognition of gay's rights, reports Conan Businge...more

07 Oct 2007- Abuja - A Nigerian human rights activist is being sued in an Islamic court over a play he wrote exposing what he calls abuses and double standards by those implementing sharia law in 12 northern Nigerian states...more

06 Oct 2007- In 2002, when I was in my mid-20s, I went down with a severe cold and was in bed for a couple of days. I was feeling lousy, with a headache and stiff neck, so a GP friend looked in on me to check that I was ok...more

06 Oct 2007- Johannesburg, South Africa- This year's Gay Pride parade has concluded its walkabout in Rosebank, Johannesburg, as part of celebrating and raising awareness about homosexuality...more

03 Oct 2007- Strasbourg, France - Russia's senior religious leader assailed homosexuality as a sin and an illness yesterday...more

03 Oct 2007- South Africa- While many gay people coming out of their closets has left communities gaping with disbelief, most people have gradually taken a stance on homosexuality...more

02 Oct 2007- Iran- When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s combative president, provoked his latest controversy in New York this week by asserting that there were no homosexuals in his country...more

Bashing Gays Has No Place in Civilised Society

"Gays have no business fighting for recognition in Kenya" cannot be allowed to go unanswered. Homophobia of this kind has no place in democracy...more

01 Oct 2007- South Africa- Gays and lesbians in Soweto have had enough of the homophobia in the huge township...more

01 Oct 2007- Dublin’s most popular gay night is on the move. Q+A (Queer & Alternative) will happen in a new bigger venue - The Vaults behind Connolly station on Friday October 19...more

01 Oct 2007- South Africa- Somizi Mhlongo, one of the people outspoken about their homosexuality, says that he knew from a very young age that he was gay, but he suppressed these feelings for years...more

28 Sept 2007- South Africa- Gay and Lesbian Pride week celebrates Simon Nkoli, a selection of whose letters are published on 1st October...more

28 Sept 2007- Nigeria-An influential African archbishop said Thursday that the Anglican church was still in crisis...more

28 Sept 2007- Botawana- Bishop Nolbert Kunonga of Harare in Zimbabwe should resign his post following his attempt to withdraw his diocese from the Anglican Communion's Central Africa Province...more

28 Sept 2007- South Africa- When South Africa won its freedom in 1994, it was not just the end of apartheid that was celebrated, but also other freedoms people had been deprived of...more

26 Sept 2007- In India, except for a few people belonging to the English-speaking elite in metropolitan centers, mostly in the higher echelons of advertising, fashion, design, fine and performing arts, with same-sex-partners...more

Gay Activists Write to President

24 Sept 2007- Kampala, Uganda- Gay rights activists have asked President Yoweri Museveni to support their campaign on the rights of homosexuals...more

24 Sept 2007-Stockholm- Europride 2010 has been awarded to Warsaw. The bold and unanimous decision was taken at the European Pride Organisers Association at their weekend meeting in Stockholm...more

Saggy Fights for Gay Rights

23 Sept 2007- Uganda- At first I thought my ears had a problem, but when she repeated the utterance, I wondered what our radio stations were up to allowing such utterances live on air...more

Homosexuality not a 'disease', says Archbishop

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has said that homosexuality is not a "disease" on the eve of a crucial decision that could split the Anglican Church worldwide...more

21 Sept 2007-South Africa- When Mohsin Hendricks an Imam in South Africa revealed that he is gay he expected protests and calls for his death...more

19 Sept 2007- Cape Town - Joburg Pride is set to come of age on 6 October 2007 when the annual event celebrates its 18th anniversary...more

19 Sept 2007- UK- The owner of a city gay club has had his £65,000 Range Rover torched in broad daylight...more

18 Sept 2007- UK- The Archbishop of Canterbury is to meet in secret with homosexual members of the Church of England, a newspaper has claimed...more

New Wrapping for Gay Mag

18 Sept 2007- Cape Town-Under new publisher Morne Ebersohn, gay lifestyle magazine Wrapped has taken cognisance of the fact that the gay consumer is a discerning consumer...more

17 Sept 2007- Los Angeles - Eva Longoria is buzzing over the newest addition to the “Desperate Housewives” cast — gay neighbors Bob and Lee...more

13 Sept 2007- Uganda- Crises Across Africa, when a daily newspaper unveiled the latest installment of what it bills as its "Weird Sex Investigation...more

13 Sept 2007-Zimbabwe-The recently appointed Dean of Central Africa, the Rt Rev Trevor Musonda Mwamba, believes Anglican churches will soon return to their grassroots mission to alleviate poverty, disease and injustice...more

Court Agrees to Hear Lesbian Case

12 Sept 2007- Uganda -The High Court has agreed to hear the case of two women who claim they were tortured by the Police and the LCI chairman of Kireka on allegations that they were lesbians...more

11 Sept 2007- Missy Elliott has laughed off rumours about her sexuality, saying just because she’s a strong woman it doesn’t mean she’s a lesbian...more

Channel 4 to show ad for anti-gay Christianity crash-course

11 Sept 2007- London, UK- Channel 4 is to broadcast an advertisement for the Alpha Course, an evangelical programme run by Alpha UK, who promote the idea that homosexuality is a sin...more

11 Sept 2007- Kampala, Ugamda-When a mother looks into her baby's innocent eyes, she envisions a responsible adult- the next David Beckham or perhaps Priscilla Winans. Never does the possibility of a gay relationship cross her mind...more

11 Sept 2007- Uganda- Rev. Kasibante’s take on the ‘real’ sin of Sodom and Gomorrah is interesting, to say it politely. His article is evidence to the unflattering reality that the Bible is used as a resource for clergymen, politicians and conmen...more

10 Sept 2007- Enugu, Nigeria-The first synod of the Anglican Diocese of Nike was concluded in Enugu yesterday with a strong condemnation of what it called the debasement of moral values exemplified in same sex marriage and homosexuality...more

09 Sept 2007- Johannesburg, South Africa — The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) is deeply alarmed by increased violence...more

Interview with Iranian gay couple

08 Sept 2007- A gay couple from Iran talked with Arsham Parsi from Iranian Queer Organisation (IRQO). Kamran, a 24 years old and Kaveh, a 25 years old have been together for 3 years...more

08 Sept 2007- David Beckham spewed a vicious gay slur at a fellow player in his Manchester United days, according to the footballer who says he was slimed...more

08 Sept 2007- Harare-The Anglican church in Zimbabwe Saturday said it will not "stand with homosexuals" at a synod of four southern African Anglican churches...more

African Anglican Bishop Expects 'Breakthrough' on Gay Row

06 Sept 2007- Anglican churches will soon return to their mission to alleviate poverty, disease and injustice and abandon a "fixation" with homosexuality...more

Science Explains Why Homosexuals Exist

04 Sept 2007- Kampala, Uganda- Daily Monitor reader F. Mungereza of Kampala has asked for scientific evidence why one is gay...more

Orombi Consecrates Anti-Gay U.S. Bishop

03 Sept 2007- Uganda's Anglican Church yesterday consecrated an American priest as bishop to lead some congregations...more

30 August 2007- Kampala, Uganda - Katherine Roubos ‘07 stumbled into a storm of controversy this week more befitting a Hollywood movie than a first-time journalism internship...more

30 August 2007- Telling your family that you are gay can be the biggest hurdle of all. There are many gay men who lead gay lifestyle and have boyfriends often for year and years- and yet are not out to their families...more

29 August 2007-Uganda- The Broadcasting Council has suspended Capital Radio presenter Gaetano Kaggwa...more

27 August 2007- Nairobi, Kenya - Plans by African bishops to consecrate American colleagues will not deepen an Anglican rift over gay clergy...more

27 August 2007- Senior malawian politicians have vowed to challenge Jack McConnell's appointment as their country's next high commissioner because of his support for gay rights, it emerged yesterday...more

Ugandan ministers meet to draft tougher anti-gay laws

23 August 2007- Kampala - Ugandan government ministers convened a special meeting Thursday to toughen existing laws against homosexuals and lesbians, the east African country's ethics minister said...more

21 August 2007- South Africa is one of the world's most liberal democracies. So why is it failing to support gay rights in international forums...more

21 August 2007- Kampala, Uganda- Hundreds of people held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital Tuesday and called for the deportation of an American journalist who covers gay issues in the east African nation...more

20 August 2007- The next stage of coming out is to tell someone else about how you feel. This is normally a feeling you have inside you and you just want to share your news with someone...more

18 August 2007- Cape Town, South African President Thabo Mbeki - who has long been accused of playing down the AIDS epidemic...more

17 August 2007- Kampala, Uganda- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Ugandans held their first-ever press conference at Speke Hotel yesterday to launch a media campaign...more

Outrage at South African Lesbian Murders

16 August 2007- South Africa may be the only country in the world to have enshrined lesbian and gay equality in its Constitution, but a rash of brutal murders of lesbians last month...more

10 August 2007- Eighteen men have been remanded in prison following their arrest for alleged sodomy in northern Nigeria...more

10 August 2007- San Juan, Puerto Rico - Gay singer Ricky Martin wants lots of kids posibly adopting "one from each continent...more

10 August 2007- A Nigerian Bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Abuja should be rejected on the grounds of the country’s homophobic oppression...more

09 August 2007- Experts are warning Senegalese men who have sex with men not to get caught up in the hype about male circumcision...more

09 August 2007- Swaziland- Homosexuality, rape and other forms of sexual violence in prisons have been cited as the main factors causing the high HIV infection rate in African prisons...more

08 August 2007- Johannesburg, South Africa- The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) is still discriminating against gay blood donors...more

Gay Sympathiser Attends Mass

07 August 2007- Kampala, Uganda- The retired Bishop of West Buganda Diocese, known for his advocacy for gay rights...more

07 August 2007- A local survey suggests gay people are likely to experience homophobia, and are not safe...more

06 August 2007-UK- Blazing sunshine added to the carnival atmosphere as 120,000 people descended on Brighton for the annual Pride festival...more

06 August 2007- Now Victoria Beckham may have to watch out for fellas looking to swipe her man...more

06 August 2007- Speaking about homosexuality, Its very difficult to be gay in Nigeria even before I was born there was a sodomy penal cord law for 14 years...more

02 August 2007- There are many reasons for this, but a common factor may be family or society has taught you that being gay is wrong or dirty and so you may hide and deny your feelings...more

30 July 2007- The hit TV series “Desperate Housewives” is adding a male couple to the mix. The gay couple will move into the house...more

Warning shot for hotels over gay couples

30 July 2007- UK- Muslim or Christian guest house owners who refuse to accept homosexual couples must impose a "sleeping together ban" on all other guests, the Government says...more

30 July 2007- South Africa may have one of the world’s most progressive constitutions, including comprehensive anti-discrimination laws and gay marriage...more

27 July 2007- Prague- Prague, along with Budapest, has become a destination popular for homosexual tourists...more

The Official UK Black Pride – 2007, We want you to celebrate UK Black Pride 2007 the theme for 2007 is "Moving on Up"...more

Tatchell Tames Reggae On Gays And Lesbians

29 July 2007- Peter Tatchell, the gay rights activist who on two occasions tried to effect a citizen's arrest...more

Italian gay groups protest after two men say they were detained for kissing in public

28 July 2007- Rome - Italian gay rights groups said Saturday they would hold public kissin near the Colosseum next week to protest...more

27 July 2007- Kampala, Uganda- Two years ago, a government official broke into a home, seized property and detained one of the occupants without a warrant. The case seems clear, but will the plaintiff's homosexuality...more

27 July 2007- Zambia- Most gay men say it’s a relief to tell others how they feel. For many, including myself, it can feel as if a massive weight has been lifted off the shoulders...more

25 July 2007 –Dublin, Ireland- Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Wednesday that his government will bring in legislation...more

How gay men get their kicks

22 July 2007- uk- Channel 4’s new gay-themed drama Clapham Junction pulls no punches...more

22 July 2007-Zambia- He had become not only my best friend but the only person I could discuss gay issues with and that made this friendship so special...more

22 July 2007- South Africa- The Pietermaritzburg Gay and Lesbian Network has voiced its anger over the recent execution-style killing of two lesbians in Johannesburg...more

22 July 2007- UK-Religious leaders and family advocates fear the PM Gordon Brown's promotion of the homosexual political agenda would jeapordize free speech and religious expression...more

22 July 2007- Speaking about coming out of the closet, this is not an easy stage for an African gay man to come out. It’s a stage when you have to choose either to be outcast by your family...more

Police net alleged sex blogger

22 July 2007- South Africa- Juan Duval-Uys, the alleged mastermind behind a controversial anti-crime website and a slanderous male prostitute blog...more

20 July 2007- He's never proclaimed to be a thug, but that didn't stop Kanye West from standing up for himself against a Broad Street Bully...more

18 July 2007- Ghana- "We have to hide ourselves if even walking in the afternoon, someone can throw stones at you," he said...more

18 July 2007- London, UK- Channel 4 have filmed the first gay 'Wife Swap' for the hit British reality show...more

Assin south go gay

18 July 2007, Ghana- It was exactly twenty-five minutes after five post meridien (5.25pm) when Cardinal Peter Kwadwo Appiah...more

17 July 2007- London, UK- Tube chief banned an underground advertisement for Gay Times because it was considered too raunchy...more

12 July 2007- Ghana- Human rights in its homely sense are the rights that a person enjoys because he/she is a human being. It is a fact that there is no out-and-out definition for what human rights are...more

12 July 2007- South Africa-Troubling. That’s the adjective we’d use to describe news that two South African gay activists...more

10 July 2007- Poland- Polish Police are allegedly creating a database of gays and lesbians who live in that country, while other members of the government are taking about "curing" homosexuality...more

Brad Pitt and Desmond Tutu Speak Up for Gay Rights

09 July 2007- In an interview for Vanity Fair, actor Brad Pitt gets into the issue of gay rights and discrimination in relation to Christianity with South Africa's Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu...more

09 July 2007- Cape Town, South Africa- Gay prisoners will not be prevented from getting married in prison...more

07 July 2007- Budapest, Hungary- Several hundred skinheads and right-wing activists threw rotten eggs and smoke bombs...more

06 July 2007- Hungarian Human Resources Secretary of State Gábor Szetey took his nation if not the world by surprise...more

05 July 2007- Oh the irony. Big Brother scold Laura for saying "poof" but didn't mind hiring Chris Moyles who says things are "gay" on the radio. Make your minds up you massive homos...more

05 July 2007- UK- Channel 4 is continuing its renewed policy of commissioning gay content by green lighting a documentary featuring gay men who came of age when homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967...more

Africanveil’s new section on advice tips on guys getting fucked, Relationships and most asked questions on gay issues.

02 July 2007- UK- A crowd of tens of thousands turned out for Gay Pride in London on Saturday...more

London police step up patrols after bombs found

30 Jun 2007- London - British police bolstered patrols and scoured CCTV footage on Saturday after foiling a possible al Qaeda plot...more

30 Jun 2007- Durban, South Africa- In the wake of police highlighting the problem of men falling victim to date rape drugs, two Durban men have spoken about their horror...more

30 Jun 2007- The Hague, Netherlands - Defence State Secretary Cees van der Knaap is to participate in a Gay Pride parade on Saturday...more

South African Gay Alleges Anti-Queer Cop Assault

29 Jun 2007- South Africa- There’s a bit of an anti-gay scandal brewing in South Africa. Banele Qhina alleges a police officer insulted and assaulted him because he’s gay...more

29 Jun 2007- Sweden- The Finnish Defence Forces have been raised as an example of anti-gay bias by a Swedish organisation...more

29 Jun 2007- Nigeria- The notice on the Anglican Church of Nigeria's Web site warns of a man named Davis Mac-Iyalla...more

29 Jun 2007- Uganda-A government minister has said that gay people from around the world send him hate mail everyday because of his stand against homosexuality...more

29 Jun 2007- Wentworth and Luke have been secretly dating for almost six months now, a source told the gossip site...more

28 Jun 2007- UK- Ministry of Defence has apologised to armed forces personnel who suffered discrimination...more

19 Jun 2007- Being gay in Zimbabwe just got a little easier. Activist group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe has announced they will open a second location in Bulawayo...more

19 Jun 2007- Randy Gerry and Seany lock lips in Big Brother’s first ever gay kiss...more

13 Jun 2007 - Uganda- "Acts of homosexuality and lesbianism have infiltrated our schools, especially secondary schools...more

11 Jun 2007- UK- A protest about the treatment of gay and lesbian asylum seekers has been held outside the Dover Immigration and Removal Centre which handles refugee cases...more

11 Jun 2007- Ne-Yo loves the homos, especially when they say he’s a gay. The 24-year old R&B crooner has long been dogged by queer rumors...more

11 Jun 2007- New Delhi- Indian law makes same-sex love a crime, which is punishable by 10 years or even life imprisonment...more

11 Jun 2007 – Sweden- Eight MP’s from Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt’s Conservtive Moderate Party, have vowed to rebel if the party does not come out in support of gay marriage...more

06 Jun 2007 - UK- A gay head teacher has been found guilty of having some extra curricular fun with another man at a West Midlands beauty spot...more

City man held after gay German murdered in Spain

06 Jun 2007- AN Edinburgh man has been arrested over the murder of a gay German man in the Canary Islands, in what police believe is a crime of passion...more

05 Jun 2007- UK- 'Big Brother' bosses have lined up a "b****y", fame-hungry, gay make-up artist to enter the house next week and stir things up...more

02 June 2007- Riga- The Riga city authorities are tonight putting-in security measures around the downtown Vermanes Park in a bid to prevent supporters of the No Pride group from disrupting tomorrow’s Gay Pride March...more

Boy, 15, lay down in front of train after gay taunts

02 June 2007- UK- A boy of 15 lay down in front of a train to commit suicide after being teased at school about his sexuality, an inquest was told yesterday...more

01 June 2007- South Africa- The Nederduitse Gereformeerde Church has remained tight-lipped about a petition sent to it asking for gays to be fully accepted in the church...more

31 May 2007- Warsaw - "We decided to cut a scene which could cause controversy among Polish viewers...more

31 May 2007- Four HIV-positive men from the Groeningen province in the north of the Netherlands confessed to police that they held sex parties where they drugged men with GHB and injected them...more

31 May 2007- Ghana- The rights of gays and lesbians in Africa were left out of the 41st ordinary session of the African commission on human and people's rights due to a constraint in time...more

30 May 2007- Riga- Gay activists in Latvia, pelted with excrement and eggs last year when trying to meet, hoped a Gay Pride march this year would be peaceful...more

30 May 2007- UK- A junior minister in the Northern Ireland Executive has been criticised for allegedly saying he was "repulsed" by homosexuals.

30 May 2007- Sweden- A group of Swedish politicians have invited Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov to attend Stockholm's gay pride festival...more

30 May 2007- Ankara-Turkey's first gay-lesbian hotel opens in July at a popular resort on the Mediterranean coast, its manager said Wednesday...more

Africa’s gay and lesbian people combat bias

29 May 2007- The international campaign for equal rights for homosexuals and other sexual minorities took a step forward on 14 November last year...more

Africanveil's new section talking about sex and everything an African gay man needs to know

29 May 2007- Africanveil has taken a step in revealing more about the sexual tabooness and some sexual practices every African gay person would want to know about...more

First Bridal Shop for Gay Men in Europe Opens

29 May 2007 – Barcelona, Spain- Spain’s new tradition of marriage equality will be made complete this week with the opening of Europe’s first matrimonial boutique designed specifically to serve the needs of gay men...more

29 May 2007- Poland's conservative government took its drive to curb what it sees as homosexual propaganda to the small screen on Monday...more

Red Tape 'Strangling' Gay Marriage

27 May 2007- Cape Town- Nearly six months after gay marriages were legalised in South Africa, some Home Affairs offices were still using forms with the words "husband" and "wife" on them...more

Anglicans 'obsessed' by gay issue

27 May 2007- Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called on Africa's Anglican church to overcome its "obsession" with the issue of gay priests and same-sex marriages...more

27 May 2007- Moscow - Australian-born gay rights activist, Peter Tatchell, was arrested in Russia...more

25 May 2007- Nigerian Anglican Davis Mac-Iyalla, 33, founder of his country's only gay-rights organization, Changing Attitude Nigeria, has embarked on a six-week speaking tour of the United States...more

25 May 2007- Gay pride organizers in Jerusalem have been given conditional approval to hold a parade in the city on June 21.

25 May 2007- Three Moroccan youth assaulted a 38-year-old Amsterdam man on Thursday night and forced him to swim around in the water in the Rembrandt park for two hours as they threw sticks and branches at him...more

24 May 2007 – A government minister is to head a delegation of more than 70 people from Sweden to the Riga Friendship Days and Gay Pride, which gets underway on Thursday May 31...more

24 May 2007- Durban, South Africa- Somewhere like the quaint Heritage Market centre in Hillcrest is not where you would expect to find a comedian such as John Vlismas...more

23 May 2007- Riga - With the 2007 Friendship Days fast approaching, debate surrounding the pride parade...more

18 May 2007- Debate is taking place over whether or not Nigeria should host the 2014 Commonwealth Games...more

BB couple to tie the knot on telly?

18 May 2007- UK- Two gay men are apparently being lined up to enter the Big Brother house - and are set to tie the knot live on TV...more

17 Churches Get the Nod for Gay Marriages

18 May 2007- Cape Town, South Africa - Seventeen churches across South Africa have applied to, and been accepted by, the Department of Home Affairs to officiate gay marriages...more

Warsaw Approves Gay Pride Parade

18 May 2007- Warsaw, Poland - President Lech Kaczynski, Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz Walz has approved a gay pride parade to take place in the capital...more

17 May 2007- Moscow – The popular female singing group t.A.T.u have indicated that they will try an be in Moscow for the city’s Gay Pride...more

15 May 2007- South Africa's 18th Gay and Lesbian Pride celebrations will be held in the streets of Rosebank, Johannesburg, it was announced on Tuesday...more

15 May 2007- India- T’PURAM: Amid the nationwide debate on "moral policing" on art, a group of students in a church-run college in Kerala have landed in trouble for making a short film on homosexuality...more

15 May 2007- Johannesburg– The legalisation of same-sex marriages in South Africa in 2006 was expected to speed up the liberation of gays and lesbians in neighbouring countries like Zimbabwe and Namibia...more

15 May 2007- UK- Almost one half of all gay and lesbian employees in Britain are afraid to come out at work, a new survey suggests...more

15 May 2007- UK- The Promenade and North Pier will become a spectacle of colour and noise this weekend as thousands descend on the resort for Blackpool Pride...more

15 May 2007- Russia- Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov as expected has refused to allow a gay pride parade in Moscow later this month...more

14 May 2007-Iran- Eighty members of the Iranian gay community have been arrested by the security personnel in Isfahan. Security forces raided a birthday party, assaulted the host, his parents and all the guests...more

14 May 2007- Russia, St. Petersburg, A gay pride parade organizing committee has applied to the St. Petersburg...more

14 May 2007-Utrecht - COC Nederland (Centre for Culture and Leisure) is urging the cabinet to call Poland to account for its policy which discriminates against homosexuals...more

12 May 2007- Zimbabwe is likely to win approval to head a key U.N. body charged with promoting economic progress and environmental...more

11 May 2007- Riga- This year, Amnesty International will participate actively in the Riga Pride march on 3 June 2007...more

11 May 2007- Nigerian Islamic police have demolished four theatres in the north-western state of Kano in a campaign to stamp out anti-social and immoral behaviour...more

10 May 2007- Recently hitting the entertainment news circuit is that super, sexy, hot, and latin superstar Ricky Martin, has come out in defence...more

10 May 2007- Johannesburg- Gay activists are protesting against what they describe as "state-sponsored" homophobia in Africa...more

10 May 20007 - Riga -With less than four weeks to go before the start of Riga Pride and Friendship Days, Cardinal Jānis Pujāts, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Latvia...more

09 May 2007- Gay activists are protesting against what they describe as state-sponsored homophobia in Africa, saying authorities tacitly condone their persecution across the continent...more

09 May 2007- An African archbishop's defiant intervention in the U.S. Episcopal Church has sent new shock waves through a global Anglican church already badly divided...more

08 May 2007- Cape Town- The Cape High Court yesterday jailed for life a science graduate who launched a fatal axe attack on his former gay partner, who had started a new gay relationship with another partner...more

08 May 2007-Johannesburg- African gay activists protested against "state-sponsored" homophobia, saying authorities tacitly condoned their persecution across the continent...more

07 May 2007- Ghana- The Presiding Archbishop of the International Council for the Clergy, has lauded traditional African values that bar gay marriages and other practices that are at variant with Christianity...more

07 May 2007- Romania- "Are you an Eurovision fan? Come to watch together with us the Eurovision Song Contest"...more

Most people in the latvian capital against holding gay-parade in their city-poll

07 May 2007- Latvia - A majority of the Riga city-dwellers are in favor of banning a gay-parade in their streets, a poll carried out by the SKDS center of public opinion studies has shown...more

04 May 2007-South Africa- The first regional conference of the International Lesbian and Gay Association in Africa will take place in Johannesburg this weekend...more

04 May 2007-Nigeria - A new conservative African-led group will provide a home for members of the splintered U.S...more

01 May 2007- UK- More than one-in-three HIV positive gay men say they have unprotected sex, according to a new UK study...more

30 Apr 2007- Kenya- Gay relationships should be legalised as a measure to control the spread of HIV/Aids...more

30 Apr 2007- Gay fans have crowned football hero David Beckham the world’s top internet stud...more

29 Apr 2007- Archbishop Peter J. Akinola's unprecedented visit to the Washington, D.C. area this week to install an American bishop in a renegade branch of the Episcopal Church of North America is both a contradiction and an insult to freedom-loving men and women...more

29 Apr 2007- South Africa- Knysna - At least 12 000 people attended the Pink Loerie Festival at Knysna at the weekend, the biggest one on record...more

28 Apr 2007- Luzau Basambombo spent six months in a Kinshasa prison, being abused over and over again. The Congolese human-rights activist suspects that he was put behind bars...more

26 Apr 2007- Lagos- A lesbian has reportedly gone into hiding to avoid imprisonment after marrying four women...more

City of London becomes more 'gay friendly'

26 Apr 2007- London- The City of London is becoming less homophobic, according to new research...more

26 Apr 2007- Following a debate on homophobia in Europe, Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday voicing concern at the recent announcement by the Polish Education Minister of a new draft law to outlaw 'homosexual propaganda'...more

25 Apr 2007- London- This year's Big Brother is set to be a gayfest. "Bosses plan to carry on camping right through the summer lining up more than ever gays in the BB house...more

25 Apr 2007- London- Claims former prime minister Sir Edward Heath was gay but was told to keep his sexuality secret for the sake of his career...more

22 Apr 2007- Malawi -The words ‘homosexuals’ and ‘lesbians’ were almost a taboo in Malawi and most parts of Africa...more

19 Apr 2007- Harare-manhunt for gay activist Dumisani Dube after the activist made a stunning disclosure to ZimDaily last week that he had a love affair with cabinet minister and Mugabe loyalist Stan Mudenge who infected him with the deadly HIV...more

18 Apr 2007-Krakow - A controversial Polish group has announced plans to counter a homosexual-rights demonstration in Krakow, raising the prospect of a confrontation between the groups this weekend...more

Gay Prostitution Hits Streets of Harare

14 Apr 2007- Harare- Zimbabwe- Although male prostitutes have been working Harare's streets for decades, seeking wealthy gay men wanting a quick liaison they have become more open...more

13 Apr 2007- Zimbabwe-GALZ recently fired its information and publications manager Dumisani Dube after revelations by other homosexuals that the gay manager had infected 12 homosexual partners...more

12 Apr 2007- London- The ‘Stop Murder Music’ campaign won the Advocacy Award at the Black LGBT Community Awards 2007...more

12 Apr 2007- It's a slippery slope, folks, once the national broadcaster starts censoring controversial or sensitive cultural content. It's a mighty slippery slope...more

12 Apr 2007- It must be a Tuesday thing. Or, to adapt the parlance of the streets where two is supposedly an unhappily gay number, it must be a 'Twosday' thing...more

12 Apr 2007- Ricky Martin defended the right of pop stars to come out of the closet, saying he felt solidarity with Christian Chavez...more

11 Apr 2007- UK- New research released shows that gay and bisexual men are more satisfied with sexual health services in England and Wales than they were in the late 1990s...more

11 Apr 2007- After her controversial on the radio this past weekend where she said that gays don't care about anyone...more

08 Apr 2007- Zambia- No one has ever asked me to explain the difference between dildos and how they worked and why different colours never...more

06 Apr 2007- London- (IANS) Jane Pratt, founder of Jane magazine, is set to go public with all the details of her alleged lesbian romance with Drew Barrymore...more

Political Governance On Homosexuality - Why the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL)

05 Apr 2007- Africa- Fikile Vilakazi of the CAL gives a brief overview on the lack of 'good political governance on homosexuality' in Africa and the role of the Coalition of African Lesbians...more

05 Apr 2007- THE Bricklayers in Newbury is bringing out the camp classics for the only gay night in the village...more

02 Apr 2007- South African police are taking "equal opportunity" to a whole new level. As the country mulls legalizing prostitution...more

02 April 2007- The Latvian National Police are starting a criminal prosecution case against Viktors Birze, the head of a radical right-wing nationalist party National Force Union...more

31 Mar 2007- Olivia Nabulwala says her family in Uganda was so angry and ashamed to learn she was a lesbian that her relatives hurled insults at her...more

Police probe boy, 10, over 'gay boy' e-mail jibe

31 Mar 2007- A father criticised a police force today for launching an investigation after his ten-year-old son allegedly called a schoolfriend "gay" in an email...more

Ricky Martin Defends Right Of Pop Stars To Come Out Of The Closet

30 Mar 2007- Mexico City- Ricky Martin defended the right of pop stars to come out of the closet...more

30 Mar 2007 - While Nigeria's draconian Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2006 appears to be 'stalled' in the Nigerian House of Representative...more

Gay Film Festival: Pride and prejudice

30 Mar 2007- London-This year's London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is proving as eclectic and entertaining as ever...more

30 Mar 2007- South Africa's commitment to gay rights had placed some law enforcers in a quandary, especially when homosexual suspects demanded they be locked up...more

29 Mar 2007- Gay men who indulge in “lewd behaviour” at the Men’s swimming pond could be prosecuted, under a new crackdown by Heath chiefs...more

Gay marriages a violation of Tanzanian laws

26 Mar 2007-Judging by the frequency and consistency with which homosexuality encounters are reported by the media, it is time to critically address and resolve it all...more

26 Mar 2007 – As news emerged that a new “anti-gay” group had been registered in Latvia, the plot thickened as to the involvement of an American preacher with religious groups in the country...more

23 Mar 2007- UK- Blair has said he is proud of his achievements on gay rights while prime minister, and that Britain has had a cultural change...more

23 Mar 2007- Chart-topping singer Mika has revealed that he is getting death threats from fans - because he won't admit whether he is gay or not...more

22 Mar 2007- Archbishop Cyprian Lwanga has slammed gay and lesbian marriages...more

18 Mar 2007- The Nigerian branch of the Anglican Church pressure group on LGBT rights, Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN), is warning other countries that the passing of the anti-gay marriage bill could cause significant problems...more

Gay times on SABC

17 Mar 2007- South Africa-The SABC may have reached a turning point in its attitude to gay content on the airwaves. This is the message from commissioning editors, who told the audience at the Out in Africa gay...more

15 Mar 2007- The ‘anti-gay’ bill pending in the legislature of Nigeria could result in that country running afoul of international treaties which outlaw genocide...more

15 Mar 2007 - A host of international and local movies can be seen at the annual Out In Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which starts on Thursday at Nu Metro, V&A Waterfront and runs until April 1...more

14 Mar 2007- Accra- When Patrick Williams told his mother he was gay, she packed his bags and threw him out of the house...more

14 Mar 2007- Cape Town - The man accused of the axe murder of his former gay partner, estate agent André Weitz, was found walking naked along a road at Plettenberg Bay...more

12 Mar 2007- Ghanaian gays in the United Kingdom are planning to meet President Kufuor...more

12 Mar 2007- Cameroon- In January 2005, I wrote a story about the travails of an atypical Cameroonian asylum seeker. He was atypical because, he was/is gay...more

12 Mar 2007- Brussels- The European Parliament is set to debate the proposed Bill that would not only ban gay marriage in Nigeria, but would also outlaw representations and advocacy of homosexuality...more

12 Mar 2007- Reading this story, one wonders if South African homo Richard Thornton needs some tough love. The 53-year old former producer/director met his husband...more

10 Mar 2007- The South African constitution recently became the first in the world to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...more

08 Mar 2007- German gay bar owner, Mr. Peter Fritz Alfred, was arrested, yesterday, after outraged neighbours notified the police about the scandalous...more

Draconian anti-gay Nigerian bill: Did Outrage! Harm campaign with press release?

07 Mar 2007- The draconian Bill that effectively outlaws homosexuality in Nigeria...more

08 Mar 2007 - John Inman, best known for his campy sales assistant role in the long-running British comedy series Are You Being Served?, died...more

05 Mar 2007- A pending law in Nigeria that would impose brutal penalties on all relationships, activism, advocacy, and shows of affection among lesbian and gay people...more

05 Mar 2007- A coalition of twenty African LGBT and human rights leaders issued a public warning, slamming the credibility of Peter Tatchell and Outrage...more

New Riga mayor ashamed of events at last year's gay pride

03 Mar 2007- Riga – Jānis Birks, the newly elected Mayor of Riga, appears to have no issues with the Gay Pride parade in the Latvian capital...more

02 Mar 2007 - African governments are denying access to HIV prevention, counseling, testing and treatment to gay...more

02 Mar 2007- Yaounde- A gay man held for two years in a dank Cameroon prison without ever having a trial has been released...more

1^st Mar 2007- The Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, which opens at NuMetro Hyde Park on Thursday, is being spl