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Gay men in Tel Aviv attacked by group hurling homophobic slurs
TEL-Aviv, Israel — A group of gay and straight friends were violently attacked in Tel Aviv on Saturday by mob of 11 people hurling anti-gay slurs, just one week following a similar attack on a transgender woman.
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Gay man jailed in Cameroon for sending ‘I love you’ text to another man dies
YAOUNDE, Cameroon — A gay man in Cameroon who was jailed for sending a text message to another man saying “I’m very much in love with you,” and who was later declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, has died, according to a lawyer who worked on his case.
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Russian Orthodox Church official calls for re-criminalizing homosexuality
MOSCOW — An spokesperson for Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church called on the Russian government Friday to reintroduce Soviet-era laws banning homosexuality.
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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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Israel city unveils gay Holocaust victims memorial
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s cultural and financial capital unveiled a memorial Friday honoring gays and lesbians persecuted by the Nazis, the first specific recognition in Israel for non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
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Official: Luxembourg to legalize same-sex marriage by summer
LUXEMBOURG CITY, Luxembourg — The President of Luxembourg’s Parliamentary Committee on Justice said that marriage equality would become law before the summer holidays.
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Russian actor who wants to burn gays alive, wants Putin to criminalize sodomy
A popular Russian actor, who last month said he wants to burn gay people alive because they pose a danger to his children, has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring back a Soviet law criminalizing “sodomy.”
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Israel border officers in home custody after brutal attack on transgender woman
TEL AVIV, Israel — A group of 11 men have been remanded to home custody after allegedly attacking a transgender woman Saturday morning in Tel Aviv, reported the Daily Ha’aretz.
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Activists say India ruling criminalizing homosexuality hurts HIV fight
NEW DELHI — Gay rights activists and health workers in India are warning that a new Supreme Court ruling criminalizing homosexuality will undo years of progress in fighting AIDS by driving gay and transgender people underground.
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Queen pardons famed code breaker, ‘convicted homosexual’ Alan Turing
LONDON — Nearly 60 years after his death, Queen Elizabeth II has formally pardon famed British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing.