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Report: Uganda President Rejects "Anti-Homosexuality Law"
“How can Parliament be the one to break the Constitution and the Law repeatedly?” Museveni wrote, according to The Daily Monitor . Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni at an anniversary parade in Kasese...
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Ugandan President Denounces Anti-Homosexuality Bill — But Stops Short Of...
“Homosexuality and lesbianism, if not mercenary or out of social frustration (for sexually starved women) is an abnormality and must be treated as such,” writes Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in a...
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Ugandan President Tells U.S. Activists He Will Reject Anti-LGBT Law, Seek To...
President Yoweri Museveni told activists from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights that the bill was “fascist,” but stopped short of saying when he would take action. Lucas Jackson / Reuters...
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Times Of India Front-Page Headline: "Homosexuality Unnatural: Ex-Head Of...
“The manner in which homosexuals have brought the talk of sex to the roads makes people uncomfortable,” said the outgoing president of the Indian Psychiatric Society in an interview published Tuesday...
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Police Violence In India Drives A Gay Couple To The U.S. — And A Detention Cell
“We are feeling like homosexuality is a crime everywhere … there is not any protection here,” said one of the men. Their yearlong journey across more than 10 countries to seek asylum in the United...
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Europe's Last Sodomy Law Repealed
The territory of Northern Cyprus repealed its sodomy law on Monday. The Mediterranean territory was the last place in Europe where laws criminalizing same-sex intercourse were still on the books....
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Ugandan President Calls For Scientific Proof That Homosexuality Is Not Genetic
“Unless I have got confirmation from scientists that this condition is not genetic, but a behaviour that is acquired, I will not sign” the pending Anti-Homosexuality Bill, President Yoweri Museveni...
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Indian Supreme Court Refuses To Reconsider Sodomy Ban
“Today’s decision represents an abdication by the judiciary to protect the spirit of the constitution,” said Voices Against 377, one of the petitioners seeking a reversal of the December Supreme Court...
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Mexican Supreme Court Upholds Equal Public Benefits For Same-Sex Couples
Couples are winning the right to marry in courts throughout Mexico, but they are still fighting to get access to all the rights that entails. Claudia Daut / Reuters The Mexican Supreme Court ruled...
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International Olympic Committee Criticizes Sochi Organizers Over Press Freedom
“In the run-up to Olympic games, this amounts to a failing grade,” said one leading human rights advocate. Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters The International Olympic Committee called on Russian organizers of...
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Online Support Group For Russian LGBT Teens Charged With Violating...
“This is an extreme level of madness. We publish letters from underage gay men and lesbians and this is considered propaganda among minors,” said Elena Klimova, who faces the charge for running...
View ArticleThis Short Film Shows Just How Terrifying Life Is For LGBT People In Russia
“Russian officials embolden homophobes and their violent attacks,”Human Rights Watch Russia researcher Tanya Cooper said in a new video documenting attacks on LGBT people in Russia. A new video from...
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Russia Is The Real Guardian Of Human Rights, Say Activists Fighting LGBT...
“I would be very cautious [in saying] which country is more free, the United States or Russia,” says an organizer of a global social conservative summit to be held at the Kremlin in September. J....
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Four LGBT Activists Arrested At St. Petersburg Olympics Protest
They carried a banner quoting Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter that read, “Discrimination is incompatible with the Olympic Movement.” Updated: The activists have been released, will have first court...
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LGBT Activists In Moscow Arrested On Video, Beaten In Police Station
“They [beat] two of us … before that they took us upstairs and said that we have to “suck their cocks” and that we have to be burned,” the activists texted from inside the police station. Update: The...
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Planning To Use A Hook-Up App In Sochi? Security Concerns Might Make Users...
“I would not use a gay dating app in Russia or the Middle East [or other places with anti-gay laws] … on my phone,” said a security expert. iPhone App Store WASHINGTON — When Internet security experts...
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International Olympic Committee Will Not Object To Arrests And Beatings Of...
“As in many countries in the world, in Russia, you need permission before staging a protest. We understand this was the reason that they were temporarily detained,” said an IOC spokeswoman. LGBT...
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Seven LGBT Rights Activists Protest In Russia Without Getting Arrested
And they look pretty lonely. Police in Moscow and St. Petersburg detained a total of 14 LGBT rights activists as the Olympic Games formally opened on Friday. But four protestors took to the streets of...
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Watch LGBT Kenyans Speak Out Against Anti-Homosexuality Bill In Neighboring...
“This bill has major repercussions to human rights across the East African community,” said a Kenyan activist during a rally in Nairobi. facebook.com / Via facebook.com LGBT activists in Nairobi,...
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Watch Anti-Gay, Pro-Putin Americans Demonstrate On The Streets Of Sochi As...
“God bless Putin for his stance on homosexuals.” sportsillustrated.cnn.com / Via sportsillustrated.cnn.com LGBT protestors in Moscow and St. Petersburg now face charges of participating in "unlawful...
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