With a little help from nighttours.com San Diego LGBT Weekly has compiled a list of Gay Pride festivals around the world in June and July. June • U.K. June 2-3 Birmingham Gay Pride • Israel June 3-9 Tel Aviv Gay Pride • Brazil June 7-11 Gay Pride Sao Paulo • Greece June 9 Athens Pride…
BERLIN (CNN) – Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Canadian porn actor accused of killing and dismembering a man and mailing body parts to politicians, will not fight extradition following his arrest in Germany, a Berlin police official said Tuesday. Magnotta told a Berlin magistrate that he will return voluntarily to face charges in the death of…
LONDON – Gay and lesbian couples will be eligible for free fertility treatment on the NHS (National Health Service), the publicly funded healthcare system in the United Kingdom, under controversial new proposals. According to a Sky News report, same-sex couples would be allowed artificial insemination, even if they don’t have a diagnosed fertility problem, according…
JERUSALEM – An Israeli Health Ministry committee has recommended that gay men be allowed to use a surrogate mother to have a child, reports Haaretz. The public committee, which was set up two years ago to examine policies surrounding fertility and birth, concluded its proceedings last week, issuing a report that may transform Israel into…
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) LGBT group commemorated the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), May 17, with a message of hope and appeal for dialogue and change, reports pinknews.co.uk. Abdalla, the chair of the group said, “On the 17th of May 1990 the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality…
MOSCOW – Almost half of Russians believe homosexuality is a human behavior acquired under the influence of the media, according to a poll taken by the state-owned polling agency VTsIOM earlier this month reports Rianovosti. “Forty-seven percent of the respondents said media and propaganda were the key factors contributing to development of a person’s non-traditional…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) – Lawmakers in Argentina have approved a gender identity law that allows individuals to be recognized in official documents by the gender they choose. Argentinians have the right to be treated in accordance with their own gender identity, and the government is required to recognize it as well, the law states….
CANBERRA, Australia (CNN) – Australia is one of many countries around the world where same-sex couples are not permitted to legally marry. And the law doesn’t seem likely to change any time soon. Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who has long opposed gay marriage, made it clear last week that her mind hadn’t been nudged by…
WALES – A 226 pound rugby player from South Wales, who went into a coma after suffering from a stroke and broken neck during a freak training accident, has “woken up gay.” The Medical Daily reported that before the stroke, Chris Birch had been a beefy, beer-drinking athlete working at a bank and loved motorbikes…
COPENHAGEN – A gay bar in Copenhagen, Denmark has banned straight couples from kissing and recently threw out a couple for doing just that, the Web site homotropolis.com reported. Jobbe Joller, the founder of the Danish LGBT organization Homosocialt Fællesskab, arrived at the Never Mind bar in Copenhagen with his boyfriend and two straight female…
