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Cross-dressing gay teen hacked, stabbed to death by Jamaican mob
ST. JAMES, Jamaica — A 17-year-old gay teen was hacked and stabbed to death by a mob in Jamaica on Monday night.
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Two men beaten to death during Haiti anti-gay demonstration
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Two men, assumed to be gay, were beaten and killed on Friday during an anti-gay protest in Haiti led by religious organizations.
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Tim Hortons blames website censorship on vendor after boycott threatened
TORONTO — Tim Hortons, the Ontario-based coffee and doughnut house with more than 3,500 locations in Canada and the U.S., said Friday it has lifted a block of a popular Canadian LGBT news website from its in-store Wi-fi under pressure from gay rights advocates who vowed to launch a boycott of the chain.
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LGBT activists in Mexico protest outside Russian Embassy over anti-gay laws
MEXICO CITY — LGBT activists on Friday assembled outside the Russian embassy in Mexico City to protest the country’s adoption of anti-gay laws.
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Thousand-plus participate in anti-gay demonstration in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than 1,000 people in Haiti are participating in a rare demonstration to protest homosexuality.
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Mexico’s first openly gay mayor elected in rough northern state of Zacatecas
MEXICO CITY — The first openly gay mayor ever elected in Mexico is scheduled to take office in the rough, violence-plagued state of Zacatecas in September.
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Costa Rica president signs bill that ‘mistakenly’ approves gay civil unions
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Conservative Costa Rican lawmakers are getting a lesson in the importance of reading the fine print.
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Bermuda Senate approves bill prohibiting discrimination against gays
HAMILTON, Bermuda — Bermuda has passed legislation that will outlaw discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
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Costa Rica lawmakers mistakenly vote to legalize same-sex unions
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Lawmakers in Costa Rica have accidentally voted to amend a law that could legalize same-sex civil unions in the Central American country.
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Catholic Cardinal refers to gay U.S. Ambassador nominee as ‘faggot’
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — President Barack Obama’s choice of openly gay nominee, James “Wally” Brewster as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, has touched off a firestorm of criticism including from Catholic Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, who referred to Brewster in Spanish as a “maricón” — a slur usually translated as “faggot.”