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Russian religious group threatens Facebook: Stop ‘flirting with sodomites’
SARATOV, Russia — A Russian Orthodox religious community in the southern Russia city of Saratov has issued an ultimatum to social media giant Facebook, demanding that the company stop “flirting with sodomites” and immediately remove all content “promoting homosexuality.”
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Gad Beck, last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, dies at 89
BERLIN — Gad Beck, a pioneering gay rights activist and educator in a severely anti-homosexual, repressive post-World War II German culture, has died, just six days before his 89th birthday. Beck was believed to be the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.
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Protesters attack Greek pride event, hurling eggs, plastic bottles
ATHENS — Dozens of protesters on Saturday interrupted a Pride event in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, hurling eggs and plastic bottles of water at event participants.
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Russian court upholds ban on gay pride in Moscow for the next 100 years
MOSCOW — The Moscow City Court on Thursday upheld a district court’s decision to ban gay parades in Moscow for the next 100 years, dismissing an appeal by the LGBT advocacy group, “Moscow Pride/Gay Russia.”
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Denmark’s legislature approves same-sex marriage
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Danish parliament on Thursday approved legislation that legalizes same-sex marriage in the Scandinavian country. The vote was 85 to 24.
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Canadian porn actor arrested in Berlin for murder, dismemberment of man he once dated
A Canadian porn actor accused of the grisly murder of a Chinese man studying in Montreal that he once dated, was taken into custody in Berlin Monday, following an international manhunt.
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‘Gay’ penguin couple delighted over opportunity to be parents
MADRID — A same-sex aquatic bird couple in Spain has been allowed to adopt an egg to nurture. Inca and Rayas, a pair of Gentoo penguins at Madrid’s Faunia Park Zoo, are delighted to finally have been given the chance to enjoy “parenthood,” according to zoo keepers.
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Gay Russian teen imprisoned in drug rehab for coming out is released
MOSCOW — A Russian teen has been released from the Marshak drug rehabilitation facility after spending 12 days in the institution after being forcibly admitted by his traditionalist father, who was angered when he came out as openly gay earlier this month. Ivan Kharchenko, 16, was released after friends and supporters staged an improvised siege […]
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Vatican rebukes ‘radical’ U.S. nuns for ‘promoting issues of social justice’
The Vatican this week rebuked the Leadership Conference of Women Religious – an umbrella group representing most American nuns – for spending too much time “promoting issues of social justice” and failing to speak out often enough about “issues of crucial importance to the life of the church and society,” such as gay marriage.
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Russia rejects G8 statement affirming rights, freedoms of LGBT individuals
WASHINGTON — Russia is openly distancing itself from language included in a joint statement released by the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting Chairman Thursday after a meeting of the G8 Foreign Ministers in Washington.