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Finnish postal service to issue ‘Tom of Finland’ gay male erotica stamps
HELSINKI, Finland — The Finnish Postal Service, Itella, is preparing to release new sets of stamps in September 2014, including “male drawings by Tom of Finland” – a deceased Finnish artist notable for his homoerotic fetish art on late twentieth century gay culture, reports Finnbay.com.
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Malta Parliament votes to legalize same-sex civil unions, adoptions
VALLETTA, Malta — Same-sex couples are set to gain the right to obtain legal recognition for their relationship as the Maltese Parliament prepares to vote on the Civil Unions Bill in its third and final reading on Monday evening.
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Italian court orders town to recognize gay couple married abroad
ROME, Italy — An Italian court has ordered a town to recognize the marriage of a same-sex couple who married in the United States.
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Graveyard exclusively for lesbians being inaugurated in historic Berlin cemetery
BERLIN — A new burial area for lesbians only is being inaugurated this weekend in a two-century-old cemetery in the German capital.
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Radical clerics promise more violence at IDAHOT demonstrations in Georgia
TBILISI, Georgia — Radical Orthodox Christians and clerics are warning the LGBT community in this eastern European nation that any demonstrations on the upcoming International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) would be met with even harsher retaliation that marred the event one year ago.
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Romanian parliamentary committee rejects same-sex civil partnerships bill
BUCHAREST, Romania — A bill which would have legalized same-sex civil partnerships was soundly rejected earlier this month by a parliamentary committee in Romania.
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Obama freezes U.S. assets of 7 Russian officials, including author of anti-gay law
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday froze the U.S. assets of seven Russian officials for their support of Crimea’s vote to secede from Ukraine, including those of Yelena Mizulina, the Russian Duma (Parliament) Deputy who authored the controversial anti-gay propaganda law last year.
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Lithuania postpones vote on anti-gay ‘public family defilement’ bill
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuanian lawmakers on Thursday postponed a final vote on a bill establishing fines for “public family defilement,” a measure similar to Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law.
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Russian law enforcement drops hate crime investigation on anti-LGBT attack
ST, PETERSBURG, Russia — The investigation into a November 2013 attack at a meeting of LGBT rights activists that left a man with the loss of vision in one eye, has been suspended, and will not be investigated as a hate crime.
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Sweden is fourth European nation to freeze aid to Uganda over anti-gay law
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The government of Sweden announced Wednesday that it would stop development aid payments to Uganda because of the anti-homosexuality law passed last December and signed by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni February 24.