Gay Exorcism

The YouTube video showing a 16-year-old being exorcised of ‘gay demons’ by a Connecticut congregation profoundly disturbed me. I respect people’s right to believe whatever they wish, but I take issue when they assault another human being based on their religious convictions. It makes me angry.

Can you imagine the humiliation of being singled out, accused of being possessed by a gay demon and then exorcised in front of a group of people at that age? Teenagers, as a group, are very sensitive to external perception. Having gay demons expelled might not lend itself to a healthy perceptive on homosexuality. The fact that an observer felt obliged to record the experience and upload it for the world to see does not fill my soul with respect and love for my species. More »

India faith leaders: Anti-gay law must stay

An Indian gay activist participates in a gay pride march in Bangalore on Sunday.

An Indian gay activist participates in a gay pride march in Bangalore on Sunday.

NEW DELHI, India — Religious groups in India have warned they will oppose any move to legalize homosexuality as the federal government prepares to hold talks on a law that classifies same-sex acts as crimes.

India’s Hindu nationalist main opposition has in the meantime called for a national debate on the legislation that law minister M. Veerappa Moily last week said would come up for a discussion within the government. More »

Stonewall rebel reflects 40 years after NYC riots

NEW YORK — Raymond Castro was a regular at The Stonewall Inn in 1969, finding it a haven from a world where gay men and women could be arrested for kissing or holding hands in public. Inside the bar, where plywood covered the windows, warning lights served as a signal for couples to stop dancing.

When police raided the bar in the past for selling liquor without a license, patrons normally submitted to arrest or dispersed quietly. But on June 28, Castro recalled, people fought back.

As officers tried to throw him in a police wagon, Castro used the vehicle as a spring to push back, knocking them to the ground. More »

Indian march calls to legalise gay sex

A participant at a march in Bangalore yesterday as India celebrated Gay Pride for only the second time in its history

A participant at a march in Bangalore yesterday as India celebrated Gay Pride for only the second time in its history

NEW DELHI — Hundreds of gay rights supporters waved flags and danced past traffic during marches through three Indian cities Sunday to celebrate gay pride and call for the decriminalization of homosexuality in this deeply conservative country.

The New Delhi parade passed near the Delhi High Court, which is reviewing a law that prohibits gay sex - and can punish it with up to 10 years in prison. More »

The Stonewall riots: what have we learnt 40 years on?

Forty years ago a police raid on a New York bar ignited the gay rights movement. But with hard-won equality, has the spirit of Stonewall been lost?

Wake up and smell the moisturiser. That would be my advice to any gay Rip Van Winkle who had slept the 40 years since those astonishing riots that erupted after a small-hours police raid on June 28, 1969, on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.

Gay venues such as this in the US (and Britain) were subject to continual police harassment, but what made that warm June night in a free-thinking New York neighbourhood different was a sudden, spontaneous, collective resolve — for once — not to run away and hide.

A rock had shifted, and a 40-year slow-motion landslide began. From tear-gas to Jean-Paul Gaultier, from cordite to Clinique. More »

Another mo Minister proves you can’t pray the gay away!

USA - Pastor Matthew C. Manning, a prominent proponent of the “ex-gay” movement and leader of Lighthouse World Evangelism in Santa Rosa, California has a long history of arrests for public sexual misconduct.

Manning claims he was “delivered from homosexuality” in 1989 and miraculously healed of AIDS through prayer in 1994. He first gained notoriety on Roseanne Barr’s talk show, and has appeared on numerous Christian television broadcasts, including The 700 Club and several episodes of The Joni Show on CBN, alongside Exodus president Alan Chambers and Focus on the Family’s Mike Haley. More »

Open Letter from Iran’s Gay Community

The painful incidents of the past few days reached their peak today. On Saturday June 20, the Islamic regime carried its violations of human rights of the past 30 years, further. The People’s desire to choose their government peacefully in a fair election was frustrated by the Regime and the Supreme Leader with deception and imposition of force. This led to a silent protest after the election results shocked the whole country. In the streets of Tehran, miles and miles of tolerant, calm, and resolved masses, about 3 million strong, confronted the rigged election. This peaceful yet determined protest was met with brutal force by the regime’s strongmen, shooting from rooftops and windows. More »

Mexico Enjoys Its 31st Gay Pride Parade

MEXICO CITY — Bright neon lights twinkle from bars and clubs on the otherwise dimly lit streets of the Mexican capital’s trendy Zona Rosa district. Same-sex couples embrace lovingly in public or hold hands without drawing so much as a raised eyebrow.

Only one word describes this place, 21-year-old Antonio Flores said: freedom.

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“It’s really hard to be gay in the smaller, more conservative states within Mexico,” said Flores, an aspiring actor and model. “I moved to Zona Rosa not just for my career but also for a chance to finally try and be accepted within my community.” More »

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