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Toronto mayor demands rainbow flag be removed from city hall
TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford wants a rainbow flag flying at City Hall protesting Russia’s law restricting gay rights activities to be removed.
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Leader of Russian anti-gay extremists who target LGBT youth arrested in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba — Cuban law enforcement officials on Friday arrested and detained the leader of a Russian anti-gay extremist group, according to a source in the Russian Federal Security Services, the Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation.
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Gay prisoner in Mexico blinded following attack by cellmate who gouged his eyes
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — A gay prisoner in Mexico remains hospitalized and recovering from injuries after his cellmate gouged out his eyes.
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Leader of anti-gay Russian extremist group flees to Cuba
HAVANA — The founder of the anti-gay Russian extremist group “Occupy Pedophilia” has fled Ukraine, where he was hiding to avoid arrest by Russian authorities for a series of criminal homophobic assaults against LGBTQ people, and is now believed by Russian law enforcement to be hiding in Cuba.
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Canadian law school approved despite plan enforce ban on ‘gay intimacy’
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The B.C. government has approved the creation of a new law school at Trinity Western University in Langley B.C., despite concerns from gay rights advocates over its plans to enforce a policy prohibiting “gay intimacy” among staff and students.
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Amnesty International: Gay rights office in Haiti attacked, two beaten
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Amnesty International says the office of a gay rights group in Haiti has been ransacked and two of its members beaten.
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Western Mexico state approves same-sex civil unions
MEXICO CITY — Lawmakers in Mexico’s western state of Jalisco have approved a change in the state’s constitution that legalizes same-sex civil unions.
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UN criticized for HIV, human rights event in country that bars entry to gays
Gay rights activists blasted the United Nations on Tuesday for organizing a book launch in Trinidad to talk about HIV and human rights in the Caribbean, noting the island bars entry to homosexuals.
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What the attack on Scott Jones tells us about fear and courage
This violent attack didn’t happen in a notoriously anti-gay country such as Russia, Jamaica or Uganda. This happened in Canada, one of the gay-friendliest countries in the world where anti-discrimination laws have been in effect since 1998. And the province of Nova Scotia is no exception to its country’s rules. So what does this attack tell us? It tells us what the other senseless hate crimes have told us this year: that we are not yet in a position to let down our guard even on the streets we call home. And that is tragic…
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Canadian man left paralyzed from the waist down in alleged anti-gay attack
NEW GLASGOW, N.S. — A Canadian man attacked outside a lounge in Nova Scotia early Saturday morning has been left paralyzed from the waist down in what friends and family are calling an anti-gay hate crime.