Almost two-thirds of Europe’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public and most feel discriminated against, an EU report said on Friday,...
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14 May 2013
The admission that the brutal murder of a 23-year-old man in the city of Volgograd was motivated by homophobia is a rare acknowledgment amid a period of rising conservative and anti-gay sentiment...
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5 May 2013
It says something, nearly all of it good, that on the day a male athlete in one of the major American pro sports came out as gay, the reaction from the NBA, fellow players and fans was almost...
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26 Apr 2013
New Zealand gained a reputation as a social laboratory by giving women the right to vote 120 years ago, and by introducing cradle-to-grave social welfare in the 1930s and 40s. The latter has been...
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24 Apr 2013
Same-sex marriage was legalised by French lawmakers yesterday, after months of bruising debate and street protests that drew hundreds of thousands to Paris. The 331-225 vote came in the Socialist-...
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21 Apr 2013
The Boy Scouts of America proposed lifting a ban on gay scouts, but maintaining a prohibition on gay adults from leading troops, a compromise that attempts to end a bitter split in the century-old...
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New Zealand became the first Asia-Pacific country to legalise same-sex marriage on Wednesday after a decades-long campaign, a historic decision celebrated with parties across the gay community.
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The gay and lesbian community slammed state broadcaster CCTV for not mentioning the wife of Iceland's openly gay prime minister in prime-time coverage of her state visit to China. CCTV aired...
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Rights activists reacted with indignation yesterday after Singapore's High Court rejected a petition to repeal an archaic law criminalising sex between men. In a ruling issued on Tuesday, the...
2:26AM
Public consultation on government plans to increase the number of operators in the Hong Kong mobile phone market comes to an end.
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Rights activists reacted with indignation on Wednesday after Singapore’s High Court rejected a petition to repeal an archaic law criminalising sex between men.
8:19PM
A group of Chinese parents of gays and lesbians had invited Iceland's prime minister and her wife for a chat over coffee when the couple visit Beijing next week.
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