Tuesday, July 7, 2009

International Gay News Headlines (T25T-3)

Brighton and Hove council has denied it halted plans to place a ten-year-old boy with gay foster parents after his Catholic mother objected. Instead, PinkNews.co.uk understands that the gay couple decided to pull out of the plan after negative stories in the national media about them.


Several weeks ago, foreign secretary David Miliband wrote an exclusive comment for PinkNews.co.uk on Pride and Britain's work abroad for gay rights. Here, he responds to reader criticisms that there is still plenty of work left to do in this country.


A law allowing the recognition of gay marriages performed in other states has come into effect in Washington DC today.


It's the end of an era - we're phasing out blogging on Same Same. They will be removed from everyone's profiles when we receive our next tech update, which will be in the next month or two.
There are big ballets, and then there’s La Bayadère â€" the three act epic Rudolf Nureyev premiered in Paris in 1992 three months before his death.
The King Victoria Drag Kings have found a new home and a new night; Their original venue at the Star Hotel. The drag king event will now feature on Saturday nights, breaking nearly a decade of Friday night tradition.

How to end 'Don't ask, don't tell'
Christian Science Monitor
The percentage of Americans that support allowing gay people to serve openly has risen from 44 percent in 1993 to 75 percent last year, according to ...

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Washington Post

Day in Photos
Washington Post
July 6, 2009 UFO Festival, RoboCup event, bride parade, London Gay Pride, DC fireworks, Honduras, Dolomites, Statue of Liberty and more news and feature ...

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Steve Rothaus
MiamiHerald.com
... Rothaus covers gay and lesbian issues in South Florida. Steve joined The Herald in 1985, while a journalism major at Florida International University. ...

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How to end 'Don't ask, don't tell'
Christian Science Monitor
The percentage of Americans that support allowing gay people to serve openly has risen from 44 percent in 1993 to 75 percent last year, according to ...

and more »

Washington Post

Day in Photos
Washington Post
July 6, 2009 UFO Festival, RoboCup event, bride parade, London Gay Pride, DC fireworks, Honduras, Dolomites, Statue of Liberty and more news and feature ...

and more »

Steve Rothaus
MiamiHerald.com
... Rothaus covers gay and lesbian issues in South Florida. Steve joined The Herald in 1985, while a journalism major at Florida International University. ...

and more »
The Hon. John Banks QSO, mayor of Auckland City, is scheduled to speak at a new LGBT business networking event tomorrow.
Journalist and poet David Herkt has spoken out about his road to recovery after a severe stroke last November left him unable to walk and speak.
4.45PM: The jury in the trial of Ferdinand Ambach, charged with the murder of elderly gay Onehunga man Ronald Brown, will shortly break for the evening without yet reaching a verdict.
ISLAMABAD: Gay community in India may be celebrating the Delhi High Court’s landmark ruling that decriminalized homosexuality, the lone Pakistani who blogs about gay travails has decided to stop writing. “Not in Pakistan. I cannot. Sorry,” Jalaluddin, who blogs at Tuzk-e-Jalali, wrote in his latest and perhaps last post on June 28. “I [...]
Courtney Deckard | IDS Members of the Bloomington Gay Recruiters group conduct a marriage equality sit-in on Thursday morning outside the Monroe County Justice Building. Along with signs, the group also chanted “1,138 federal rights denied. I am a gay American and I am a second-class citizen.” Honoring the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall [...]
Washington D.C. City Councilman Marion Barry, who’s devoted the last few weeks to rallying against the city’s recognition of same-sex marriage from other jurisdictions, just added to his controversy hash marks. Barry was arrested last night on stalking allegations, made by a woman who says the former mayor was “bothering her.” Barry is expected to [...]

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