Gay rights News
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Britain’s main Muslim group says marriage for same-sex couples is “unnecessary and unhelpful” in a statement opposing UK government plans to hold a consultation on the issue.
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George Broadhead of the UK gay humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has criticised Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s condemnation of gay marriage, calling the cardinal’s pronouncement predictable and bizarre.
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Annapolis -
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signed the Civil Marriage Protection Act in Annapolis on Thursday, making it the eighth state to legalize gay marriage.
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Phoenix -
A lesbian couple who were celebrating their one-year anniversary on Sunday in a restaurant located inside a Sheraton Hotel were reportedly asked to leave by the manager after engaging in a public kiss.
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Dallas -
The openly gay judge told a meeting of the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas that until she is legally able to marry a woman in Texas, she will not officiate at heterosexual weddings.
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A gay rights activist says Whitney Houston was gay. She binged on drugs and alcohol because she agonized privately over living a lie in public, he claims. Even her marriage to Bobby Brown was a smokescreen to defuse rumors in the 1990s that she was gay.
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Addis Ababa -
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has urged African leaders to respect gay rights. He told a two-day African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa that the Arab Spring was a "reminder that leaders must listen to their people."
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Geneva -
The United States has announced it will take greater interest in issues of gay rights abroad. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said "Gay people are born into every society in the world. Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality."
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Saint Petersburg -
A bill to impose a fine on anyone promoting "homosexual propaganda" was approved earlier this month in the first reading of Parliament in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Florida -
The announcement that Rick Perry has named Pam Olsen, founder of the Tallahassee branch of the International House of Prayer, as his new Florida co-chair must surely ring alarm bells. He's only one step away from signing up the Westboro Baptist Church.
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Gay rights Headlines
A Ugandan gay rights group sues a US minister accusing him of involvement in a campaign to persecute gay people in the East African country.
Residents of North Carolina approve a constitutional ban on gay unions, initial results suggest, making the state the 29th to limit gay marriage rights.
Fighting breaks out as religious protesters block a small gay rights march in the capital of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urges African leaders to respect gay rights in his opening address at the African Union summit.
A court in St Petersburg fines Russia's best-known gay rights campaigner for "homosexual propaganda" in the first ruling of its kind.
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