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The independent Senator who represents Trinity District in Ireland's parliament, the Seanad Éireann, garnered the support of the Irish capital city's town council Tuesday evening to secure his nomination as a presidential candidate, entering a race already occupied by six other candidates. [ Read more → ]

Police in the northern Mumbai suburb of Oshiwara staged a raid on a "gay" party at a beach house in the popular Versova Beach area early Sunday arresting 133 persons, including transgender Bollywood film star Bobby Darling on charges of "indecent behavior." [ Read more → ]

The mayor of the German capital city has been reelected for a third term. Klaus Wowereit, who became the first openly gay leader elected to a German political state office winning his first term as Berlin's mayor in 2001, is known for his populist style of leadership favored by the city's citizens. [ Read more → ]

The British Equalities Minister, Lynne Featherstone, is unveiling plans for introduction of a measure before Parliament that legalizes same-sex marriage in Britain before 2015. Featherstone, a Liberal Democrat, has also vowed to make Britain "a world leader for gay rights." [ Read more → ]

A GIRL trapped in a boy’s body has made the brave decision to return to school for the new term as a girl. The 10-year-old, a year six pupil at primary school in Worcester, was born a boy but took the decision with her family over the summer holidays to return as a girl. [ Read more → ]

A groundbreaking research poll commissioned by the LGBTQ charity and advocacy group Stonewall UK, showed that lesbian, gay and bisexual persons in Britain are far more likely to end up living alone and have less contact with family in later life than heterosexual people. [ Read more → ]

Yesterday I received this email (which I use here by permission): Dear John, Hi. My name is [deleted]. I am nearly 48-years-old, and am married with two grown children. I am also a Methodist minister in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I have come to believe that... [ Read more → ]

The United Kingdom will become the latest country to lift the ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, relaxing a policy that officials said does not improve the safety of the blood supply. [ Read more → ]

Three men were hanged in Iran on Sunday, executed for “unlawful” acts of sodomy and homosexual sex. [ Read more → ]

More courtroom drama over Prop 8, with new arguments and a new judge. Recent surveys have been so encouraging for our side that this week our opponents resorted to creating a fake survey to spread misinformation. And civil unions are poised to make way for full marriage equality in Scotland and New Zealand. [ Read more → ]

In his 2008 book, C. Peter Wagner states that the Dominion (or “Kingdom now”) theology of his movement traces through Christian Reconstructionist theologian R.J. Rushdoony, who advocate Biblical capital punishments such as stoning or burning at the stake for a wide range of alleged crimes -- including homosexuality. [ Read more → ]

Amid belated media recognition that the apostles of church-growth guru C. Peter Wagner’s New Apostolic Reformation dominated presidential hopeful Rick Perry’s August 6th “The Response” prayer event, some pundits are rushing to dismiss the political influence of dominionist factions within evangelical Christianity. [ Read more → ]

The Right Honorable Jack Layton, a member of the Canadian Parliament, and a charismatic politician who guided the New Democrat Party (NDP) into the position of being the dominant opposition party in Parliament, has died. He was 61. [ Read more → ]

A national opinion poll conducted by the Galaxy research group released earlier this week -- ahead of a rally against same-sex marriage in the Australian capital city Canberra -- finds a majority of Australian Christians support same-sex marriage. [ Read more → ]

Mexico's capital city has reported that 1,000 same-sex marriages have been registered since the city's lawmakers legalized same-sex unions on Dec. 21, 2009, according to a statement released by the Oficina del Registro Civil (Civil Registry). [ Read more → ]

On a sweltering, rainy afternoon in Havana, Ignacio Estrada, an HIV positive gay man, and Wendy Triepa, a transgendered woman, on Saturday became the first gay couple to be legally married in Cuba. [ Read more → ]

The Czech Republic's capital city is hosting its first ever Gay Pride event starting Wednesday -- the five-day Prague Pride Festival of Tolerance -- to be held from August 10-14, and which will culminate with a carnival parade in the center of the city on Saturday, August 13. [ Read more → ]

Uniformed Members of the Dutch defense forces participated in Amsterdam's annual Gay Pride flotilla parade Saturday, on the city's historic Prinsengracht canal, for the first time since openly gay service in the Dutch forces was legalized in 1974. [ Read more → ]

The staff of London's famed "Gay's The Word" bookstore on Monday arrived for work to find the front window smashed and that the storefront vandalized with eggs. [ Read more → ]

BERLIN -- The man thought to be the last remaining gay survivor of the Nazi Holocaust has passed away at the age of 98. Rudolf Brazda had been imprisoned by the Nazi regime for homosexuality and was sent to the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp in August 1942 and held there until its liberation by U.S. forces in 1945. [ Read more → ]