OUT TO PRESSURE AUTHORITIES ON GAY MURDERS
LGBT group OUT is setting up a task team to pressure the police to take urgent action in solving the on-going murders of gay men in Gauteng.
ANGER AS PRIEST REFUSES COMMUNION TO LESBIAN WOMAN
A priest in the United States has refused to give a a woman communion at her mother’s funeral after he discovered that she is lesbian.
LIBERIAN PRESIDENT TO VETO ANTI-GAY BILL?
There are reports that Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will veto an anti-gay bill recently introduced into parliament, if it is passed.
LADY GAGA LAUNCHES ‘BORN THIS WAY’ FOUNDATION
Pop singer and songwriter Lady Gaga, along with Oprah Winfrey and other high profile figures, has launched a foundation to tackle the bullying of young people.
COMMONWEALTH HEAD CONDEMNS HOMOPHOBIA
Commonwealth Secretary General has spoken out against the “discrimination or stigmatisation” of gays and lesbians in a speech at the UN Human Rights Council.
RUSSIAN CITY BANS PRIDE EVENTS
A bill to ban the “promotion of homosexuality” in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second city, has passed its final hurdle in the city’s legislature.