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A queer calculation
by The Economist online | BUENOS AIRES

SHORTLY after 4 a.m. on the frigid morning of July 15th, Argentina became the fir…

European Convention Does NOt Oblige Sates to Ensure the Right to MArry to Same-sex Couples
The applicants, Horst Michael Schalk and Johann Franz Kopf, are Austrian nationals who were born in 1962 and 1960 respectively and live i…

UN Committee Moves to Keep Out LGBT NGO
A United Nations committee that decides which nongovernmental organizations can be accredited to the world body moved on Thursday to keep…

Gay Couple in Malawi Pardoned
A gay couple in Malawi sentenced to 14 years hard labour for holding the countryâs first same-sex engagement were pardoned today after a …

Portugal's president reluctantly approves gay marriage law
Portugal is the sixth country in Europe to legalise gay marriage after its president approved legislation.

The Catholic countr…

Third international update from the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia 2010
EU: For this yearâs IDAHO, there will be a big range of events at the heart of the EU between the 3rd and 17th May including a special fo…

Portugal's president ratifies gay marriage law
Portugal's conservative president announced Monday he is reluctantly ratifying a law allowing gay marriage, making the predominantly Cath…

Gay Iranians increasingly fleeing their country after June's crackdown
As Hassan walked -- well, more like sashayed -- through the market in this southern Turkish city, the population on the sidewalk -- elder…

Tsvangirai: No to gay rights move
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has joined President Robert Mugabe in dismissing calls to enshrine gay rights in the new cons…

Mexico's first gay couples wed under landmark law
Five same-sex couples wed in Mexico on Thursday as Mexico City became the first Latin American city to defy religious taboos and macho st…

Vatican hit by gay sex scandal
The Vatican, on March 4, rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict's household after a chorister was sacked for allegedly procu…

Gays to the Rescue in Haiti
A gay couple running emergency medicine, food and tents into Haiti by boat has taken their mission online to the Internet and launched Ca…

Malawi government defends gay couple's prosecution
Malawi's government said Monday that it is unmoved by international criticism of the trial of a gay couple charged with unnatural acts an…

China's first gay pageant gives glimpse of new acceptance
Eight men competing in Mr Gay China, which organisers say is a striking sign of how far attitudes to homosexuality have changed Link to t…

Irish lawmakers open debate on gay rights bill
Ireland's lawmakers opened debate Thursday on a bill to grant marriage-style rights to gay couples, a social milestone in a country long …

MIddle East Is Still a Dangerous Place For LGBT Community
The rise of fundamentalist groups in Iraq since the 2003 U.S. led invasion has proven deadly to LGBT Iraqis, who are now being forced to …

Homophobic crime rise in London
Last summer, gangs of youths attacked people outside gay bars in east London on a number of occasions.

In one incident, a 21-y…

Jamaican PM: new constitution should ban gay marriage
Jamaican PM: new constitution should ban gay marriage

Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding said the country's parliament woul…

Uruguay approves Latin America's first gay adoption law
Uruguay lawmakers Wednesday adopted a trailblazing law allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt children, in an unprecedented move in La…

Most gay men in Asia have no access to HIV prevention, care
More than 90 per cent of men having sex with men (MSM) in Asia and the Pacific do not have access to HIV prevention and care services. An…

The attack in Tel Aviv on a community center for young gays and lesbians is widely condemned
Joseph Berg, a 43-year-old entrepreneur, sat brooding and alone on a bloodstained sidewalk Sunday, a few feet from the policeman blocking…

LGBT folks in India Celebrate Important Court Ruling
In a landmark ruling Thursday that could usher in an era of greater freedom for gay men and lesbians in India, New Delhiâs highest court …

Ireland grants rights to same-sex partnerships
Ireland recognized the legal rights of same-sex couples for the first time Friday in a civil partnership bill that gave people in long-te…

Iraqâs Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder
The relative freedom of a newly democratic Iraq and the recent improvement in security have allowed a gay subculture to flourish here. Th…

Iraqi Gays Face Gruesome Torture/ Murder Technique
As the murder campaign targeting Iraqi gays intensifies, a leading Arabic television network last week revealed the use of a horrifying n…

Confusion grows over reports of gay executions in Iraq
Human rights organisations are working to establish whether a number of men have been executed in Iraq for being gay.

Homosexu…

Parents go public to help homosexual sons, daughters
When Sun Dehua heard that his only son Sun Mu was gay, he stormed off to find the young man, kitchen knife in hand. Consumed with intense…

Human Rights Campaign Applauds Obama Administration for Supporting UN Declaration Affirming Human Rights of LGBT People
The Human Rights Campaign, the nationâs largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, issued a stateme…

Gay Man Sworn in at Knesset
A former television journalist, Horowitz is a member of the left-of-center Meretz Party.
Last week he announced plans to bring in le…

Iraq's Queer Underground Railroad
In the bad old days of slavery in the United States, there was the "Underground Railroad" ö a clandestine network of secret routes and sa…

Iceland's PM marks gay milestone
Johanna Sigurdardottir, named as Iceland's prime minister on Sunday, is the first openly lesbian head of government in Europe, if not the…

Activist's 'railroad' helps gay Iranians
Not quite three years ago, Arsham Parsi was an Iranian refugee in Turkey. Today, he is executive director of the Iranian Queer Railroad, …










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