Posts Tagged ‘News’

More tolerance for gay troops as end of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is debated (2010-2-11)

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 [...]

China’s first gay pageant highlights slow acceptance (2010-1-15)

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 [...]

Catholic Portugal set to legalise gay marriage (2010-1-7)

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 [...]

Australia: ACT win fight on gay wedding laws (2009-11-26)

THE ACT government has triumphed over its federal counterpart on new laws allowing gay couples to wed. The federal government had threatened to quash the legislation after it was passed by the ACT Legislative Assembly earlier this month. But after discussions between the two, the ACT government appears to have won the battle and will [...]

USA News: Chicago Cop Targeted GLBT Drivers For Arrest (2009-4-8)

CHICAGO ―Four federal lawsuits were filed Thursday against a Chicago Police officer accused of targeting gay and lesbian motorists for unwarranted DUI’s on the North Side. At least seven more suits are expected to be filed against Town Hall District police Officer Richard Fiorito in recent weeks, according to a local representative of the gay [...]

Catholics, not Jews, main victims of Holocaust, says bishop (2009-3-31)

A BRAZILIAN archbishop dropped a bombshell overnight when he said Catholics and gypsies had been more persecuted than Jews during World War II. “The Jews talk about six million people killed. But how many Catholics were victims of the Holocaust? They were 22 million in all,” Archbishop Dadeus Grings, from Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, [...]

Pope Targets Gays With Anti-Condom Stance (2009-3-28)

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: “One cannot overcome the problem (of AIDS) with the distribution of condoms,” the pope responded when a reporter [...]

Gay Murder Remains Unsolved (2009-3-8)

A year has passed and still mystery surrounds the death of Bernd Lehmann, who resided in Ashfield in Sydney’s inner-west. Australian police have released an emotional request from Lehmann’s German family to find their son’s killer. “We are in deep mourning but the worse thing is we have no answer to it all,” said Lehmann’s [...]

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