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Chile: Lawmakers expected to introduce marriage equality bill
Lawmakers in Chile are expected to introduce a bill Wednesday aimed at extending marriage rights to same-sex couples.
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Egypt security forces arrest 26 men for homosexuality in bath house raid
Egyptian security forces have raided a bath house and arrested 25 men suspected of homosexuality, dragging them naked out of the building in downtown Cairo.
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New Zealand pastor tells Christian author he prays for him to commit suicide
A New Zealand pastor has sent a hate-filled email to a prominent gay Christian author in which he calls the author a “filthy child molesting fag” and that he prays for him to commit suicide.
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Uganda lawmaker: Foreigners adopting kids ‘to train them on gay practices’
The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, is warning clergy members that gay foreigners were adopting Ugandan children “to train them on gay practices.”
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Former cop launches Chinese gay dating app that grows to 15 million users
BEIJING — By day, Ma Baoli was a high-ranking officer in a seaside city police force. By night, he ran a website for gay people to share experiences and on which he spoke under a pseudonym about the pressure he faced being gay himself. After several years, the police force found out and told him he could not run a private website that was…
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Poland’s first openly gay lawmaker elected country’s first openly gay mayor
WARSAW, Poland — Robert Biedron already made history once in Poland by becoming the first openly gay lawmaker in parliament in 2011. On Monday, he became the country’s first openly gay mayor. The 38-year-old’s political successes are a marker of how quickly this deeply conservative and Catholic country has changed …
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Gay rights activists march in New Delhi to demand an end to discrimination
NEW DELHI — Nearly a thousand gay rights activists marched through central New Delhi on Sunday to demand an end to discrimination against gays in India’s deeply conservative society. Holding balloons, flags and placards, activists and their supporters sang songs and danced to the beat of …
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Gambia official rebuffs Western criticism of country’s anti-gay law
DAKAR, Senegal — The Gambian government has lashed out at Western donor nations that have criticized a new law that punishes some homosexual acts with life in prison. The European Union and the United States recently expressed dismay at the law and discrimination against gay people in the West African country.
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Finland’s parliament supports measure aimed at legalizing same-sex marriage
HELSINKI — Finland’s parliament on Friday narrowly approved a measure granting marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples.
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Austria politician tells Pope Francis to speak up for same-sex marriage
STRASBOURG, France — A prominent, openly lesbian politician from Austria presented Pope Francis with a rainbow scarf on Tuesday, and called on the Pontiff to speak up for women’s rights and same-sex marriage.