MOSCOW – RIA Novosti reports that according to police six gay-rights activists who were detained on Wednesday for holding an unauthorized rally in central Moscow have been released. The detainees have been booked for “promoting non-traditional sex relations” and “participating in unauthorized events,” the city police’s press service said, adding that the suspects were to…
As we celebrate our significant gains in LGBT equality over the last year, I cannot help thinking about the many LGBT heroes who are all too often forgotten. A friend who was at the film Milk in Hillcrest heard a young gay man say after the movie “I loved it but why did they have…
Propelled by two historic rulings for same-sex couples by the U.S. Supreme Court, President Obama was bluntly rebuked over his stance on gay rights on the second stop of his three-country tour in Africa. Visiting Senegal, the president proclaimed, “I want the African people just to hear what I believe,” Mr. Obama said at a…
With President Obama planning to make a three-country stop in Africa this week, LGBT activists, diplomats and party officials are all expressing concern about just how far he can and will go in denouncing the treatment of millions of people living there, reports ABC.com. The President plans on visiting South Africa, Senegal and Tanzania. The…
As the United States and other countries grapple with the issue of same-sex marriage, a new Pew Research Center survey finds huge variance by region on the broader question of whether homosexuality should be accepted or rejected by society. The survey of publics in 39 countries finds broad acceptance of homosexuality in North America, the…
It has been reported that a 39-year-old airport senior airport administrator was savagely stabbed and trampled to death before his body was stuffed in a box, placed in his car and set on fire. While the victim’s name is being withheld, three suspects – whose names are also being withheld at this time – have…
(CNN) — David Beckham was always adept at curling the ball around a wall — but when it came to the barrier of homosexuality in football, he broke straight through it. Former England captain Beckham, who announced his retirement from football Thursday, was the first superstar footballer to embrace his “gay icon” status, freely giving…
In a sign of just how difficult the nascent gay rights movement is in the relatively new, relatively democratic country of Georgia, protesters, led by leaders of the Orthodox Christian Church derailed a gay pride parade shortly after it was scheduled to get under way. Thousands of anti-gay protestors, some with signs reading “We don’t…
(CNN) — Four walls, a bed and a slop bowl. If prison represents physical confinement and a loss of every personal freedom, what does imprisonment of the mind feel like? “Unbearable” according to Marcus Urban, a German footballer who gave up his chosen profession — his “first love” — because of homophobia in the game….
In what some see as a quasi-victory, New York Jets linebacker and self-described devout Christian Christian DeMario Davis went public Thursday in his support of gay athletes. In an interview with the Daily News, Davis appeared supportive of the idea of playing with other members of his team who were gay. “If someone was to come out on…
