Russia’s anti-gay propaganda laws take dark, deadly turn

Since the enactment of anti-gay ‘propaganda’ laws that have overwhelmingly passed in some of Russia’s largest cities, the LGBT community is seeing a discernible rise in violent crimes. Recently, a young gay man, Vladislav Tornovoi, was brutally attacked then killed after he admitted to his drinking buddies that he was gay. In Volgograd, the 23-year-old…

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Gay activists in Singapore uses crowd funding to fight anti-sodomy laws

In what is certainly a first for this nation-state, a group of dedicated gay activists are using the crowd funding site Indiegogo.com to raise funds to overturn the country’s anti-sodomy law. Singapore, which currently has an anti-sodomy law on the books which bans “acts of gross indecency” with another male, has made in clear in…

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