While gay rights are slowly expanding around the world, including in Africa, human rights activists note some political, media and religious leaders are leading sometimes violent campaigns in the opposite direction. Activists say they feel the tradition of tolerance no longer applies to homosexuals in that West African nation. Protesters…
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*VIDEO after the jump*: Why would a gay politician vote against gay rights? That describes the voting record of California state Sen. Roy Ashburn, who came out Monday in an interview with a radio talk show
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A gay candidate running for Congress in California has made the list for Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “Red to Blue” program, giving his campaign extra momentum.
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Fresh on the heels of allegations that now-former Congressman Eric Massa groped three young male staffers, a shipmate who served with the New York Democrat during his 28 years in the Navy said he was notorious for making unwanted advances toward subordinates. According to Peter Clarke, a Navy shipmate, Massa…
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A photograph of two men kissing that ran on the front page of The Washington Post has caused at least two dozen people to cancel their subscriptions. The photo was taken last Wednesday, the day same-sex couples could apply for marriage licenses in Washington, and ran in the paper the next day. The paper’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, reported on his blog that 27 subscribers canceled their subscriptions, specifically citing the photo.
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Although studies in Africa have shown that circumcision can lower the spread of HIV among heterosexuals, it may not do much to prevent infections among gay and bisexual men in Western countries, a new study suggests. A number of studies in African nations have found that circumcised heterosexual men were up to 60 percent less likely than uncircumcised men to contract HIV during the study periods. Read the full story from Reuters.
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San Francisco’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is asking the city for some big financial help to stay afloat.
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Cyberbullying is on the rise: Children and teens are being bullied through the Internet in chat rooms, on social networking websites, via email and even through mobile phones. New research has found that approximately one out of every two lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youths are regular victims of…
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Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput posted a defense of the decision by Sacred Heart parish in Boulder to expel the children of a lesbian couple.
