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 [...]
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 [...]
So last night was the big night on Gossip Girl, the night Chuck Bass finally came to task for his obsession with wearing prints, confronted all of those gay rumors, and finally kissed a dude. That got us in the mood to reminisce about the gay kisses of yesteryear. TV gays and lesbians have come [...]
LONDON β The wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined thousands of revelers in London’s annual gay pride march. Sarah Brown held a red, white and pink version of the Union Jack as the noisy parade wound through the city center before a rally and concert in Trafalgar Square. Everyone from drag queens [...]
MOSCOW – A lesbian couple challenged the Russian legal system on Tuesday when they applied for a marriage license but it was swiftly rejected on the grounds that such a union must be between a woman and a man. It was the first attempt by a gay couple to get a marriage license in Russia. [...]
Iowa City, Ia. β Friday was a long, busy day for 17 gay and lesbian couples from Missouri. They were awake by 4 a.m., hopped on a bus to Iowa City around 6 a.m., said “I do” in the afternoon and were unmarried by the time they returned home Friday evening. The couples took advantage [...]
Discrimination and bullying against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals and transgendered people remains a problem in Europe, a survey indicates. A major report released Tuesday by the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency found that, especially in Eastern Europe, harassment and attacks on gays and lesbians are ongoing, with politicians frequently turning a blind eye or siding [...]
Are Pope Benedict’s recent incendiary comments about condoms promoting AIDS directed at gay men in Africa? For a pope already on record against being gay, the question needs to be asked. En route to Africa, Benedict said: βOne cannot overcome the problem (of AIDS) with the distribution of condoms,β the pope responded when a reporter [...]