MISS CALIFORNIA KEEPS TITLE
Carrie Prejean is being allowed to keep her titles as Miss California and runner up to Miss USA despite breaking pageant rules.
RUSSIAN LESBIANS DENIED MARRIAGE
Two female gay rights activists have been denied permission to marry each other in accordance with Russian law.
OBAMA CAN OVERTURN GAY BAN
Military law experts say that the US president has the legal authority to stop gay personell from being discharged from the military.
SA PLAYWRIGHT HAS SUCCESS IN US
A theatre in California will present the third US production of Ashraf Johaardien’s play, Happy Endings Are Extra, in as many years.
CHILDREN WITH SAME-SEX PARENTS NOT DISADVANTAGED
A leading expert says that children raised in same-sex families do just as well as children living with heterosexual parents.
BOY GEORGE FREED FROM PRISON
Pop singer Boy George has been released from Edmunds Hill prison in Suffolk four months into his fifteen month sentence.
GAY OLYMPIC ATHLETES TO GET PRIDE HOUSE
For the first time in Olympic history gay and lesbian athletes will have a place to go to relax and watch events.
LEBANESE GAYS STAND UP FOR THEIR RIGHTS
Gays and lesbians in Lebanon have taken to the streets to demand LGBT equality in a region which is extremely anti-gay.
BOTSWANA’S OWN MISS CALIFORNIA
Sumaiyah Marope, a business student from Gaborone, has been crowned Miss Botswana 2009 despite her anti-gay comments.
UK AGAINST BURUNDI’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
Britain’s international development minister Ivan Lewis has spoken out against Burundi’s decision to adopt a law which criminalises gay sex.