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WORLD / NEWS Sat Mar 6, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Reports that an Italian official accused of corruption allegedly used a Vatican choir singer to arrange gay liaisons for him are "shameful," the official's lawyer says... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Mar 6, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A Nigerian man who sang in a Vatican choir arranged gay liaisons for an Italian government official who served in the unpaid role of papal usher, according to transcripts of wiretaps collected by Italian authorities... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Sep 11, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has issued a posthumous apology for the "appalling" treatment of Alan Turing, the British code-breaker who was chemically castrated for being gay... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 17, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Hundreds of gay men have been tortured and killed in Iraq in recent months, some by the nation's security forces, Human Rights Watch said Monday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri May 30, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

BBC News -- A leading Turkish gay rights group will fight a court ruling that ordered it be closed for "violating morality". Lambda, which has become increasingly vocal in calling for gay, lesbian and transgender rights in Turkey, says it will appeal against the d.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Oct 15, 2007 @ 1:50pm neoform

Google Associated Press -- A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work. In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica dai.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jul 30, 2007 @ 7:30am neoform

BBC News -- The prison system in Mexico City has begun permitting gay prisoners to have conjugal visits from their partners. The city authorities accepted a recommendation by a human rights commission which said the visits would help to end discrimination. The.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

New York Times -- The officer, a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force, felt he had no choice. So he stood up in front of his squad of 30 to 40 people. “I said, ‘Right, I’ve got something to tell you,’ ” he said. “ ‘I believe that for us to be able to wor.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Dec 1, 2006 @ 8:39am neoform

New Yorker -- American Airlines Flight 45—departing Charles de Gaulle at 10:40 A.M., arriving J.F.K. at one each afternoon—is a tourist’s delight: timed just right to avoid late checkout, leaving time for one last Kir Royale at Les Deux Magots. On August 22nd, th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jul 9, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A landmark ruling that legalized gay sex between consenting partners in India was challenged Thursday in the country's high court, lawyers said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 11:56am neoform

ABC News -- Manvendra Singh Gohil grew up in a bubble of prestige and privilege, surrounded by hangers-on who treated him so reverentially that he was 15 years old before he crossed a street by himself. "I was born with a golden spoon," Singh Gohil, who is now 41.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jun 17, 2007 @ 1:52am neoform

BBC News -- Tens of thousands of gay rights activists have marched through the streets of Rome, demanding more legal recognition for same-sex couples. Colourful banners at the Gay Pride parade urged Italy's government to override the Vatican's objections to granti.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 12:41am neoform

BBC News -- Hundreds of thousands of gay, lesbian and transvestite people have taken part in a Gay Pride parade in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. Organisers said the number of people taking part exceeded last year's record of 2.5 million marchers. The parade.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue May 29, 2007 @ 3:25pm neoform

FOX News -- Poland's watchdog for children's rights was quoted as saying she would ask psychologists to investigate whether the TV "Teletubbies" character Tinky Winky is gay. On Tuesday, she backed away from the comments. Ewa Sowinska, ombudsman for children's rig.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 10:01pm neoform

The Age -- WHEN Collingwood hotelier Tom McFeely decided to fight for the right to refuse entry to heterosexuals, he braced himself for a backlash. And a barrage of angry talkback callers proved him right yesterday. As Melbourne radio hosts debated the implica.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun May 27, 2007 @ 10:17pm neoform

CNN -- Russian police detained gay protesters calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central Moscow on Sunday while nationalists shouting "death to homosexuals" punched and kicked the demonstrators. Riot police detained gay rights activists as th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 10:25am neoform

BBC News -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called on Africa's Anglican church to overcome its "obsession" with the issue of gay priests and same-sex marriages. He said they should spend time on more pressing issues in the region. Speaking to the BBC World Service,.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 11:34am neoform

CNN -- Thousands of people marched Saturday in the capital's annual gay-rights parade, days after the education minister called for a ban on the "propagation of homosexuality" in Poland's schools. About 5,000 demonstrators marched from parliament through down.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- A directive by Italian bishops ordering Catholic politicians to vote against gay rights legislation has caused a political uproar and prompted fresh charges of Church interference in domestic affairs. The long-awaited note, issued on Wednesday by the I.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 6:09pm neoform

USA Today -- An economist and a journalist became the first couple united under Mexico City's new gay civil union law Friday, kissing while an orchestra played "Besame Mucho" and police guarded their white wedding tent filled with guests. The new law, which took ef.. Read More