BAGHDAD — Days before a deployment to Iraq last year, the 26-year-old soldier’s sergeant told his troops that they would get to know one another pretty well over the next few months. “I’m in trouble,” the specialist remembered thinking. He feared comrades would find out he is gay. Worse, he said, they could figure out [...]
BEIJING — The Mr. Gay China pageant is coming up and contestant David Wu is a bit worried. It’s not the underwear competition that’s making him jittery – he’s been working out harder than usual to get ready. And he’s looking forward to the opportunity to meet other “comrades,” as gay men in China are [...]
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 [...]
DUBLIN — Ireland’s lawmakers have opened debate on a bill to grant marriage-style rights to gay couples, a social milestone in a country long observant of Roman Catholic opposition to homosexuality. Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said Thursday that the Civil Partnerships Bill would give gay couples the same rights as married heterosexual couples to questions [...]
AUSTRALIA’S only openly gay political leader says it would be “plain bigotry” for the Federal Government to overturn ACT laws recognising same-sex civil unions. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said today the Government had not ruled out vetoing the laws, which the ACT Legislative Assembly passed earlier in November. Asked about that comment, Australian Greens leader [...]
By Lisa Belkin When I wrote about same sex parenting in the Times Magazine this weekend, one of the people I interviewed was M. V. Lee Badgett, who is both the director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law and a professor of Economics at [...]
A group of well-known Russian singers and writers has called for an end to discrimination against gay people. They met after a local official tried to close Moscow’s longest-running gay club, Dusha i Telo, where many of the artists have performed. Activist Nikolai Alekseyev, who called the meeting, said it was the first time celebrities [...]
Lawmakers voted Wednesday to extend adoption rights to gay couples in Uruguay, the latest measure to relax laws on homosexuality that has drawn criticism from church leaders in the country, which is predominantly Roman Catholic. Members of Congress said the law made Uruguay the first Latin American country to permit gay couples to adopt. The [...]
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