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Italian gay former MP arrested in Sochi
Transexual activist detained for holding 'Gay is OK' banner
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Men banned from becoming Queen as 700 years of law redrafted ahead of gay marriage
Words such as “widow” removed from statutes while medieval treason laws and even rules on royal titles amended ahead of gay marriage
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U.S. judge orders Kentucky to recognize same-sex marriages
A U.S. federal judge on Thursday ordered Kentucky to recognize the legal same-sex marriages of residents who wed outside the state, the office of the state attorney general said. The decision is the latest in a string of rulings that expand gay rights following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that legally married same-sex couples nationwide are eligible for federal benefits, striking down a key part of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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World Bank stalls $90m Uganda loan
The World Bank has postponed a $90m (£54m) loan to Uganda over its tough anti-gay law, which has drawn criticism from around the world. World Bank officials said they wanted to guarantee the projects the loan was destined to support were not going to be adversely affected by the law. The loan was intended to boost Uganda's health services.
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A Rising Tide of Anti-Gay Sentiment in Africa
At a time when gay-rights movements in Africa should be making headway, their leaders are being forced underground.
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Gays in Lebanon Just Snagged a Major Victory
LGBT rights activists in Lebanon are celebrating a historic ruling that reversed the criminalization of gay sex in Lebanon. The case, which concluded in January, was released on Tuesday in Legal Agenda, a quarterly magazine published by an NGO of the same name.
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Fred Phelps Sr, ex-pastor of gay-hating Westboro church, 'close to death'
Fred Phelps Sr, whose Westboro Baptist Church used the slogan ‘God hates fags’, ill in Topeka hospice
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Guinness quits New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade over gay exclusion
My goodness. On Friday, Sam Adams brewer Boston Beer Co. dropped its sponsorship of Boston's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade and Heineken pulled out of New York's, each brewery citing the exclusion of gay and lesbian groups from the respective parades. On Sunday, the U.S. arm of Ireland's most famous beer maker joined the boycott, withdrawing its name and greenbacks from New York's biggest Irish-themed parade.
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Arkansas school doubles down after banning gay student’s coming-out story from yearbook
“We must make decisions that lead in the proper direction for all of our students," school officials say VIDEO
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The Myth of Gay Affluence
Despite a commonly held belief that LGBT Americans tend to live it up in classy urban neighborhoods, they struggle with disproportionately high levels of poverty compared to straight people.
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Same-sex marriage now legal as first couples wed
For the first time same-sex couples are now legally allowed to get married in England and Wales. Politicians from the main parties have hailed the change in the law. David Cameron said the move sent a message that people were now equal "whether gay or straight", but some religious groups remain opposed.
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OKCupid asks users to avoid Firefox
Dating website OKCupid has sought to deter users from accessing its site via browser Mozilla Firefox. The site says the move was in response to new Mozilla chief executive Brendan Eich's previous opposition to gay marriage in the US state of California.
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Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO, Leaves Foundation Board
Brendan Eich, the well-known techie who has gotten swept up in a controversy about his support of California’s anti-gay marriage law Proposition 8, is resigning as CEO of for-profit Mozilla Corporation and also from the board of the nonprofit foundation which wholly owns it. Mozilla confirmed the change in a blog post.
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Silicon Valley employees spent more money opposing same-sex marriage than you might think
Mozilla Corporation CEO Brandon Eich stepped down yesterday, a week after getting the job. Intense pressure over his 2008 donation supporting California's Proposition 8, which sought to ban same-sex marriage, forced him to quit. Eich's $1,000 donation first came to light in 2010, but the issue snowballed after he was named CEO, and didn't explain or change his position on Proposition 8 in interviews.
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Home Is Where the Hate Is: When Homophobic Parents Kill
Just days after his fourth birthday, Zachary Dutro-Boggess suffered a beating so severe at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend that he collapsed on the floor of the homeless shelter he lived in. Two days later, he was dead of a perforated bowel and serious internal bleeding.
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The Culture of Shut Up
Too many debates about important issues degenerate into manufactured and misplaced outrage—and it's chilling free speech.
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Why Would A Gay Teenager Commit Hate Crimes Against Herself?
Ten years ago, a liberal San Francisco suburb was traumatized by a rash of hate crimes against a 17-year-old lesbian. But when it was revealed that the victim herself had staged the attacks, the entire community turned on her and she never spoke about the incidents publicly. Until now.
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Nintendo says 'No' to gay characters
Nintendo has said it will not allow gamers to play as gay characters in its life-simulation game Tomodachi Life. A fan had launched a social media campaign urging Nintendo to allow same-sex relationships between characters in the game - modelled after real people. Nintendo said it "never intended to make any form of social commentary" with the launch of the game.
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More than 2.7 billion people live in countries where being gay is a crime
New research lays bare discrimination faced by gay people – in not a single country do they enjoy equal rights as heterosexuals
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Putin Claims 'Gay Nazis' Behind Ukrainian Unrest
The Russian president takes a page out of a notorious antigay American evangelical's playbook and claims that gay people are the cause of the current conflict in Ukraine.
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