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In 1993, Robert Mugabe climbed up onto his little public speaking box and told the world that: “What an abomination, a rottenness of culture, real decadence of culture. [Homosexuals are] repugnant to my human conscience... immoral and repulsive......
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It was recently reported that a Lon Angeles based Saudi diplomat is seeking asylum in the United States under the pretext that he faces persecution if he is returned to...
made popular Oct 19 2010
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview...
made popular Sep 1 2010
A friendly kiss goodnight probably made David Garnon a marked man.
As he left his buddy outside a bar and crossed the street to go home, three youths who’d seen...
made popular Aug 28 2010
‘Insulting Mugabe’ seems to be the crime of the week in Zimbabwe. Roy Bennett, Job Sikhala and now these two individuals.
“Among the charges lodged...
made popular May 29 2010
A gay singer in China has been arrested for murder after he allegedly killed six men in elaborate, sado-masochistic sex games that involved hanging his victims, a...
made popular Apr 21 2010
The state on Thursday moved to protect the principal that a man can have more than one wife.
The Attorney General’s office has responded to a petition seeking to...
made popular Feb 19 2010
Yesterday, on my main page, I commented on a story that suggested that Saviour Kasukuwere, one of Mugabe’s loyalist minions, was gay. My immediate response was that...
made popular Feb 18 2010
Five homosexual couples had a symbolic wedding in Peru on Valentine’s Day, as part of their public actions advocating for their legal rights to get married.
The...
made popular Feb 16 2010
To many non-Ugandans, Uganda conjures up two sustaining images; One, a small, beautiful, landlocked east African nation, once called the “Pearl of Africa” by her...
made popular Jan 1 2010
Two Malawian men became the first gay couple to publicly tie the knot, the Nation newspaper reported on Monday, risking arrest in the conservative southern African...
made popular Dec 30 2009
Argentina — Two Argentine men were joined Monday in Latin America’s first same-sex marriage, traveling to the southernmost tip of the Americas to find a...
made popular Dec 29 2009
Latin America’s first same-sex marriage, set to be held in Argentina on Tuesday, appeared derailed after a judge filed an injunction to stop the union until the...
made popular Dec 5 2009
The New York State Senate decisively rejected a bill on Wednesday that would have allowed gay couples to wed, providing a major victory for those who oppose same-sex...
made popular Dec 3 2009
Gays in Uganda have a dismal condition and face a tough survival. They come across insults from strangers, face stern laws, imprisonment, police harassment on daily...
made popular Nov 30 2009
Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed.
Gordon Brown followed...
made popular Nov 28 2009
Those wishing to marry partners of the same sex still have to seek countries where such marriages are allowed, before they can tie the knot.
Same sex marriages will...
made popular Nov 20 2009
With the election commission recognizing their separate status the time is not far off when insurance/ration card, driving license, bank accounts, insurance policies...
made popular Nov 14 2009
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t...
made popular Nov 12 2009
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It seems like such a simple act of compassion - allowing the partners of committed same-sex couples to make funeral arrangements for their significant others. But...
made popular Nov 12 2009
The gay community in Uganda has turned to social media — blogs, twitter, mailing lists and Facebook — in a bid to garner support for its opposition to the...
made popular Nov 9 2009
Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time refusal to acknowledge the...
made popular Nov 9 2009
One Friday at around midnight, on Villaflor Street, a favourite spot for gays and lesbians in the Venezuelan capital, Yonatan Matheus and Omar Marques noticed two...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Stunned and angry, national gay rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads – and President Barack Obama’s lack of engagement – for a bitter election...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Maine residents will have their say Tuesday in the nationwide debate over gay marriage. Voters there will decide whether or not to uphold a law that was signed in May...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Specter is not gay lest the title mislead you. But he is a shameless opportunist. Originally a Democrat, he became a Republican senator and this year switched back to a...
made popular Oct 28 2009
The fierce fight over same-sex marriage in California and elsewhere is creating pressure to recognize a new free-speech right that could keep petition signatures...
made popular Oct 26 2009
The Lutheran Church of Sweden - the country’s largest - is to conduct same-sex marriages from next month.
Around 70% of the church’s 250-strong synod, or...
made popular Oct 23 2009
Barack Obama promised to allow gay servicemen and women to serve openly in the US military but left the gay community frustrated again yesterday after he refused to set...
made popular Oct 12 2009
Voters preparing to oust the weary old devil they know for a plausible young newcomer are apt to wonder if they’re making the right decision. When the newcomer is...
made popular Oct 9 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ramped up the pressure on the White House and the military to repeal its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy with a...
made popular Oct 1 2009
Take a photo tour of gay Havana by clicking here.
On sultry Saturday nights in Havana, thousands of young men and women — including hundreds of gay men, a few...
made popular Sep 18 2009
When neighbours of John Terry, the British honorary consul in Jamaica’s Montego Bay, were approached by a young man outside his home on Tuesday evening asking for...
made popular Sep 12 2009
When my colleague and I sat down last April with Hamid, an Iraqi man from Baghdad, his trauma-induced stutter said as much as the words he spoke. Huddled...
made popular Sep 11 2009
fter 17 years together, Bill Slimback and Bob Sullivan couldn’t wait another minute to get married. So they didn’t.
With Vermont’s new law allowing...
made popular Sep 1 2009
Lawmakers in Uruguay have approved a bill allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt, according to the AP.
Despite opposition from Uruguay’s Roman Catholic Church...
made popular Aug 29 2009
In 1993, Mugabe launched the first of many attacks on lesbians and gays. I have no opinion on these sexual choices.
Mugabe stated: “Lesbians and gays are...
made popular Aug 21 2009
The number of deliberate attacks against homosexual men in Iraq has risen precipitously this year at the hands of Iraqi militias and death squads, according to a report...
made popular Aug 18 2009
Gay men and lesbians in Zimbabwe are hoping for an end to years of “hysterical homophobia” by having their rights enshrined in the new constitution.
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made popular Aug 11 2009
Joseph Berg, a 43-year-old entrepreneur, sat brooding and alone on a bloodstained sidewalk Sunday, a few feet from the policeman blocking the stairwell to the basement...
made popular Aug 4 2009
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