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Ghanaian Regional Minister orders witch hunt of suspected homosexuals
Though LGBT people are already deemed criminals in the West African nation of Ghana, it seems that persecution of gays and lesbians is only slated to get worse, as police services in the western portion of the nation have been ordered to round up all suspected homosexuals.
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India’s health minister calls homosexuality a ‘disease’ that is ‘spreading’
India’s health minister on Monday called homosexuality is a “disease” that is “spreading fast” throughout the country.
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New Zealand church protest over anti-gay discrimination beckons vandals
A church in Auckland, New Zealand, has come under attack from vandals after it put up a “gay-dar” billboard on Friday depicting a spectrum from gay to straight, with a cross acting as a gauge.
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LGBT demonstrators in Russia attacked, jailed for unauthorized gay pride
Russian police have arrested at least 14 LGBT activists for holding a unauthorized gay pride demonstration in St Petersburg on Saturday.
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Hong Kong hires conversion therapy expert as social welfare trainer
Hong Kong has hired prominent local psychiatrist Hong Kwai-wah, who specializes in “treating unwanted homosexuality,” as a trainer for its social welfare staff.
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Liechtenstein voters approve civil partnerships for gay couples
Voters in Liechtenstein have overwhelmingly backed a new law giving gay and lesbian couples the right to formally register their partnership.
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Lesbian Syrian blogger, kidnapping a hoax — married American man confesses
A married man vacationing in Istanbul, Turkey, is behind an elaborate internet hoax in which he posed online as an oppressed Syrian-American lesbian blogger who was abducted by government security agents.
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Violence, thousands of protesters bring abrupt halt to Croatia gay pride
An estimated 8,000 protesters — many throwing stones, bottles, bricks, firecrackers, and eggs — brought an abrupt end to the first gay pride to be staged in the port city of Split, in southern Croatia on Saturday.
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Lady Gaga performs at massive EuroPride rally, calls for end of discrimination
Lady Gaga on Saturday evening wowed European audiences with a spectacular performance of her smash hit “Born This Way” and an encore of “Edge of Glory,” the culmination of the massise EuroPride in Rome, Italy, in which she called on governments around the world to defend gay rights.
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Thousands of Israelis take to the streets to celebrate gay pride in Tel Aviv
Thousands took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Friday as the city celebrated the culmination of Gay Pride Week with its annual pride parade.