ZAMBIA ‘GAY COUPLE’ VERDICT DELAYED AFTER YEAR IN JAIL
After spending more than a year in jail, the nightmarish homosexuality trial of two Zambian men has been delayed again. Barber Philip Mubiana and bricklayer James Mwape, both in their early twenties, are charged with having ‘carnal knowledge against the order of nature.’ The verdict in their trial was meant to have been delivered on […]
POLICE ARREST MOSCOW PRIDE ACTIVISTS
Efforts to hold gay Pride events in Moscow have once again been stymied by the authorities, reports the Moscow Times. On Saturday, around 30 activists took part in two Pride rallies. One was held in front of the Moscow mayor’s office and another in Gorky Park. A car with two people waving rainbow flag from its sun […]
ANTI-GAY GROUP: SEND BACK HARVEY MILK STAMP!
The fundamentalist Christian American Family Association (AFA) is up in arms over the issuing of a stamp commemorating the late gay rights icon Harvey Milk. The stamp was launched at the White House by the United States Postal Service on 22 May, which would have been Milk’s 84th birthday. Last week, the outraged AFA offensively […]
MELISSA ETHERIDGE MARRIES PARTNER
Openly lesbian American rock and blues singer Melissa Etheridge has tied the knot. On Saturday, Etheridge married her partner Linda Wallem at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California. The two women, who were born on the same day, had both turned 53 two days earlier. Wallem is an actress, writer and producer and the […]
ANTI-GAY UGANDAN MINISTER SET FOR TOP UN POST
There’s growing anger that Uganda’s Foreign Minister, Sam K. Kutesa, will this month become the head of the UN General Assembly. Critics have pointed out that Kutesa, who has also been accused of corruption, represents his country’s repressive administration, led by President Museveni, which earlier this year enacted the appalling Anti-Homosexuality Act. He has defended […]
OBAMA PROCLAIMS JUNE LGBT PRIDE MONTH
President Barack Obama has once again proclaimed the month of June Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, noting that it has been 45 years since the Stonewall Riots ignited the LGBT rights movement. In an official Presidential Proclamation on Friday, he celebrated recent advances in American LGBT equality, such as the wave of same-sex […]