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Russian gay rights activists arrested for violating ‘gay propaganda’ law
Police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg arrested two gay rights activists this week, the first such arrests for violating a controversial new law that bans the “promotion of homosexuality” to minors. The two men, Alexei Kiselyov and Cyril Nepomnyashiy, were protesting Thursday in front of St Petersburg’s Palace of Youth Creativity, a government-run […]
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Irish Catholic Church investigating how gay porn showed up in priest’s presentation
The Roman Catholic Church is investigating how a priest accidentally displayed pornographic gay images to parents of children receiving First Communion.
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Russian lawmakers consider bill prohibiting ‘gay propaganda’
MOSCOW — Russian lawmakers are considering a bill that would impose fines for spreading gay “propaganda” among minors, a measure that is similar to legislation adopted in February in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city.
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Marriage equality moves forward in Washington, New Jersey
Marriage equality took center stage again on Monday, with progress on both coasts — in Washington out west, and in the east, New Jersey.
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Russian airline forces gay flight attendant to marry woman or lose job
MOSCOW — LGBT activists in Russia are planning a campaign to boycott the Russian airline Aeroflot following a report that a gay flight attendant was forced by the airline to enter into a heterosexual marriage or face losing his job.
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Russian LGBT activists protest in Moscow’s Red Square
A small group of LGBT Russians have taken their protest against laws intended to silence their movement to every region — and on Wednesday night they produced images of their protesting arrest in front of the Kremlin.
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Groundbreaking: Turkish parents of gay children make video (Video)
More positive change in Turkey with the news this week that the High Court of Appeals has ordered a newspaper to pay compensation for calling gay people “perverts” in a headline it printed in 2008.
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Turkey’s high court indicts newspaper for insulting LGBT people
Turkey’s High Court of Appeals has ordered the Turkish daily paper Yeni Akit to pay compensation for insulting LGBT people in a headline it printed in 2008, according to a report published by Hürriyet.
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Anti-LGBT constitution, ‘family protection’ law in Hungary come into force
On January 1, a new homophobic constitution and law came into force in Hungary — the constitution now bans same-sex couples from marriage while the new “Family Protection” law defines the family as a heterosexual unit and stipulates that media services should broadcast programs that respect the institution of marriage and family.
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Civil Unions and beyond in 2012
Welcome to 2012! We got a lot of work to do this year, so let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work. The new year marks new civil union laws in Delaware, Hawaii, and California. Psychologists in North Carolina lash out at anti-gay prejudice, LGBTs can marry in Cancun — probably — and something fishy’s going on with civil unions in the European Union.