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.
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.
MR. GAY WORLD UNVEILS HIGHWAY BILLBOARD
For the first time ever in South Africa, a gay event is being promoted on a massive billboard on one of the country’s busiest highways.
GLOBAL BANKS URGED TO CONDEMN UGANDAN BILL
Almost 200,000 people have called on Citibank and Barclays, two of the largest banks in the world operating in Uganda, to condemn that county’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
FA CRACKS DOWN ON MORE ANTI-GAY FOOTBALLERS
Following the launch of its anti-homophobia campaign, England’s Football Association has charged another three footballers with using anti-gay slurs on Twitter.
NAVRATILOVA TO ‘DANCE WITH THE STARS’
Lesbian tennis icon Martina Navratilova will be among the celebrity cast-members in the upcoming season of America’s Dancing With the Stars.
BRONN MURDER SUSPECT GETS BAIL
Despite an online petition launched by the gay community, one of the men accused of the murder of gay nightclub owner Bruno Bronn, has been granted bail.
GAY MURDER DEATH TOLL RISES
An eighth gay man was murdered over the weekend in circumstances very similar to those of the other seven men recent killed in Gauteng.
GAY MILITARY HOMECOMING PIC GOES VIRAL
A moving photo depicting a U.S. marine leaping into the arms of his boyfriend after returning from Afghanistan has become an internet sensation.
INDIAN GOVERNMENT FLIP-FLOPS OVER GAY BAN REPEAL
The Indian government has sought to clarify confusion over its position on the 2009 repeal of the law criminalising homosexuality.