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Gay rights activists in India rally, demand end to discrimination
NEW DELHI — Gay rights activists sang songs and carried rainbow-colored flags while marching to the beat of traditional Indian drums Sunday, as they paraded through India’s capital to demand an end to the stigmatization of gays in the deeply conservative country.
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Australian Governor-General backs same-sex marriage
SYDNEY, New South Wales — In a landmark speech, the Governor-General of Australia on Friday publicly endorsed same-sex marriage
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Bomb threat disrupts opening of St. Petersburg LGBT Film Festival
ST. PETERBURG, Russia — Queer Russia is reporting that a bomb threat has delayed the opening of the St. Petersburg LGBT Film Festival.
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Putin says ‘xenophobic’ attitude toward Russian LGBT people is wrong
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin told a group of political leaders Wednesday that the nation and its people and government shouldn’t adopt a xenophobic attitude towards people with different sexual orientations.
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IKEA deletes article on lesbian couple from magazine’s Russian edition
HELSINKI — Swedish furniture retailer IKEA says it has cancelled an article about a lesbian couple in the Russian edition of its customer magazine because that would have contravened that county’s law on gay propaganda.
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Senegal judge frees women accused of violating law banning homosexual acts
DAKAR, Senegal — A judge in Senegal says there is insufficient evidence to convict four women accused of violating the country’s law banning homosexual acts.
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Luxembourg to achieve historic first: Openly gay Prime Minister, Deputy PM
The tiny European country of Luxembourg is set to achieve a historic first by having an openly gay Prime Minister and an openly gay Deputy Prime Minister.
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Uganda trial on published images of gay U.K. man having sex is postponed
ENTEBBE, Uganda — The trial in Uganda of a British man arrested after images of him having gay sex were published has been postponed until December.
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U.K. man in Uganda court after stolen gay sex images published
KAMPALA, Uganda — A British man faces a court hearing in Uganda on Monday following the publication of images from his stolen laptop of him having sex with another man.
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Prominent Ugandan LGBT activist charged with sodomy, held without bail
KAMPALA, Uganda– Samuel Ganafa, the executive director of Spectrum Uganda Initiatives and board chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), was arrested earlier this week on charges that he had sodomized another man and infected him with HIV.