LISBON — Catholic Portugal, traditionally one of Europe’s most socially conservative countries, is expected to approve the legalisation of gay marriage on Friday with a minimum of fuss. With the governing Socialists and other left-wing parties enjoying a strong majority, the new law is likely to sail through the first reading debate and gain final [...]
As the year 2009 comes to a close, it does so having been a monumental year for China’s LGBT community. Beijing and numerous cities across China experienced the successful completion of 12 anniversaries and public events that expose LGBT culture and related issues like never before. China’s LGBT community, which is an acronym that refers [...]
Uganda is likely to pass a law within months that will make homosexuality a capital offence, joining 37 other countries in the continent where American evangelical Christian groups are increasingly spreading bigotry “Learned behaviour can be unlearned,” said David Bahati. “You can’t tell me that people are born gays. It is foreign influence that is [...]
Since Ellen DeGeneres graced the cover of Time Magazine more than a decade ago under the headline “Yep, I’m Gay,” coming out in Hollywood has become an increasingly common – and typically headline-grabbing – phenomenon. However, the recently televised revelation by “Family Ties” star Meredith Baxter, 62, that she’s a lesbian has put a well-known [...]
When AIDS first emerged, no one could have predicted how the epidemic would spread across the world and how many millions of lives it would change. There was no real idea what caused it and consequently no real idea how to protect against it. Now we know from bitter experience that AIDS is caused by [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses a serious issue involving gay activists in the District of Columbia: A new homosexual website, ChurchOuting.org, is intent on publicly disclosing who the gay priests are in the Archdiocese of Washington. The goal of this outing is to intimidate gay priests, as well as heterosexual priests who may be [...]
An Argentine judge has rule in favor of allowing a gay couple to marry, opening the door to gay marriage for the first time in Latin America, the AFP reported. Judge Gabriela Seijas ordered government officials to allow two men, Alejandro Freyre, 39, and Jose Maria Di Bello, 41, to marry. Seijas issued her order [...]
Once again, state voters – this time in Maine (USA), hardly a conservative stronghold – have voted down same-sex marriage. Leaving what she thought would be a victory party after last week’s balloting, an emotional Cecelia Burnett said, “I don’t understand what the fear is, why people are so afraid of this change.” That’s a [...]
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