BRILLIANT! COMMONWEALTH GAMES OPEN WITH GAY KISS
In a fantastic finger to homophobia, gay actor and singer John Barrowman kissed a male dancer during yesterday’s opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Barrowman, who is Scottish-American, is best known for his roles in TV’s Doctor Who and Arrow. During the ceremony he ran across the stage and planted a smooch on […]
MAN WHIPPED & JAILED FOR 3 YEARS FOR GAY TWITTER ACCOUNT
A 24-year-old Saudi man has been severely punished for the crime of “practising homosexuality” on Twitter. The unnamed man was found guilty of using the social media site to meet other men and sentenced to three years in jail and 450 lashes, reports Al-Watan. Religious police from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention […]
GAY PORN STAR CAUGHT SMUGGLING DRUGS IN HIS…
Gay porn star Bruno Knight has been arrested after he tried to smuggle crystal meth in his rectum. The British-born Knight (real name Philip Peter Gizzie) was detained while attempting to board a Los Angeles flight to London last month, reported the site Str8UpGayPorn (NSFW). According to an affidavit published on the site, customs officials, […]
COMMONWEALTH GAMES: BAN ANTI-GAY COUNTRIES
Scotland has been urged to condemn widespread Commonwealth homophobia as the Commonwealth Games kicked off in Glasgow on Wednesday. “We are asking Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, to express his grave concern at the persecution of LGBTI people in 42 of the 53 Commonwealth member states,” explained British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. “We urge him […]
US FUNDING OF ANTI-GAY HATE IN AFRICA REVEALED
Despite the American government publicly supporting LGBT rights, it’s been claimed that it has continued to provide funding to anti-gay groups in Africa. In a recent The Nation article titled Obama’s Evangelical Gravy Train, journalist Andy Kopsa writes that the Obama administration was informed years before Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality-Bill that it was funding anti-gay religious […]
BISHOP SAYS HOMOPHOBES ARE SICK, NOT GAYS
A Catholic bishop has spoken out in support of gays and lesbians and slammed those who oppose LGBT equality. In an interview with El Pais, Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of Saltillo in Mexico was asked about his views on gay people. He responded that, “The people who say homosexuals are sick are sick themselves.” He […]
HOLLYWOOD FILMS NOT GAY ENOUGH, DOING HARM
Hollywood’s big studios have been accused of not featuring enough LGBT characters and of including offensive content in their movies. According to an annual report by US gay media watchdog GLAAD, issued on Thursday, of the 102 releases from the seven major film studios in 2013, only 17 of them included characters identified as lesbian, […]
HIV DIAGNOSES DROP IN US, RISE AMONG GAY MEN
Gay and bisexual men have bucked the trend of declining HIV diagnosis rates in the US, say researchers. A report published by the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that the annual rate of diagnosis of the virus has dropped by a third in the wider US population over the last decade, but […]
GAY MAN ACCUSES CAPE TOWN POLICE OF HATE CRIME BRUTALITY
A gay Cape Town man has accused police officers of beating him after they allegedly refused to register his discrimination complaint. Junior Mayema, 26, who fled from the DRC because of his sexual and gender identity, told Mambaonline that the incident took place on Friday night. Mayema, who is renting a room in a house, […]
OBAMA BANS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LGBT GOV WORKERS
In a historic move, President Obama has finally outlawed discrimination against LGBT federal government employees as well as those employed by federal contractors. On Monday, Obama signed an executive order extending all basic protections, benefits and policies to these workers. Notably, the order does not allow for religious exemptions as requested by conservative and religious […]