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Singapore upholds law that criminalizes gay sex
Singapore’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that a law that criminalizes sex between men is in line with the city-state’s constitution, rejecting two separate appeals by three men that the measure infringed their human rights.
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India Supreme Court to hear curative plea on law criminalizing gay sex
NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea by gay rights activists to reconsider its controversial decision to reinstate a 153-year-old law that criminalizes same-sex sexual activity.
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Senegal sentences gay men to 6 months in prison for having sex
DAKAR, Senegal — A judge in Senegal sentenced two men to six months’ jail in a rare conviction of a gay couple on criminal charges.
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India Supreme Court refuses to review verdict that criminalizes homosexuality
NEW DELHI – India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to reconsider its controversial decision to reinstate a 153-year-old law that criminalizes homosexuality.
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Russian Orthodox Church official calls for re-criminalizing homosexuality
MOSCOW — An spokesperson for Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church called on the Russian government Friday to reintroduce Soviet-era laws banning homosexuality.
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Democratic Republic of Congo to consider banning gay sex
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — A draft bill has been proposed to criminalize gay sex the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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India’s court ruling a dreadful new judicial low for international LGBT human rights
Wednesday’s Indian Supreme Court decision reversing a lower court and re-criminalizing same-sex sexual intimacy marks a dreadful new judicial low for international LGBT human rights. Even as we in the U.S. enjoy ever increasing visibility and protections for our community, life for many of our brothers and sisters in other countries is going from bad to intolerable. It is repellent that extremist religious opposition worldwide is such a corrosive impediment to basic human rights…
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India’s law minister: Government likely to review anti-gay sex law
NEW DELHI — India’s law minister said Thursday that the government has not abandoned efforts to make homosexuality legal, and that the country must take swift action to challenge a Supreme Court decision banning same-sex relations.
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Uganda trial on published images of gay U.K. man having sex is postponed
ENTEBBE, Uganda — The trial in Uganda of a British man arrested after images of him having gay sex were published has been postponed until December.
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Montana governor signs bill to strike down obsolete sodomy law
HELENA, Mont. — An obsolete law deeming gay sex as deviant — akin to bestiality — was stricken from Montana code Thursday, prompting gay rights activists to say they hope that full legal equality may be close at hand.