Wednesday, October 14, 2009

International Gay News Headlines (T25T-3)

A man who was kicked and beaten by three youths in Trafalgar Square, London, last month has died in hospital. Ian Baynham's life support machine was turned off last night.


Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are choosing not to enter professions such as teaching for fear of homophobia, research has found.


A Muslim football team who initially refused to play against a gay team and then appeared to back down have been kicked out of their league.


Woody Allen has had the idea for _Whatever Works_ floating around for years: he originally wrote it for Zero Mostel, who died in the late 1970s.
Che is the kind of movie reviewers and critics can't dismiss easily. The biopic on the Argentinean Marxist revolutionary is challenging and difficult, and it has all the elements of a great movie.
You don't have to delve too far into the Queensland GLBT community to find stories of homophobic violence or harassment. In fact, a study conducted in 2003-2004 identified Queensland as one of the least progressive states on gay rights.
(Russia) Gay and Lesbian Film Festival “Bok o Bok” which was supposed to take place in Saint Petersburg from today and last until Sunday finally did not open after Fire Department Inspectors closed the place due to problems with fire security. In a phone interview to Project GayRussia.Ru, Organiser of the festival Irina Sergeeva said that the clubs “The Place” and “Sochi” where the screenings of the films were supposed to take place, were closed due to fire security reasons.
(USA) - As part of Bibi's outreach to our communities, Bibi|SF will be hosting talks on various issues affecting queer South West Asian, North Africans (aka Middle-Easterners). Its first engagement is with Arsham Parsi of the IRanian Queer Organization on Thursday, June 26 at the SF LGBT Center.
(USA) - Gay human rights activists in San Francisco staged a speak out at the Russian consulate on May 16, in conjunction with IDAHO events around the planet. Before showing up at the consulate, the group sent emails to the staff explaining their reason for coming -- to press the government to grant parade permits to Moscow's Gay pride event.

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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Fort Lauderdale-based IGLTA supports gay travel businesses in the Middle East
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News release from the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association: International LGBT travel association participates in Tel Aviv symposium amid ...

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The NZ AIDS Foundation is seeking "qualified and enthusiastic candidates" to stand for election to its Trust Board at its next Annual General Meeting, planned for 28 November.
Hungarian tourist Ferdinand Ambach, who beat elderly gay Onehunga man Ronald Brown to death and left him with a broken banjo neck stuffed in his mouth as appealing his manslaughter sentence of at least eight years' jail, reports the New Zealand Herald.
Auckland's Gay and Lesbian Singers will get their tongues around a variety of languages for their next concerts.
An Obama appointee, who the right accused of defending rape, was defended by the “victim.” Read more….
Iowa advertised the state’s equal rights for same-sex couples at the Gay Days at Disneyland. Read more….
Homophobic license plates withdrawn Read more….
Gay MP's at the Labour Party's annual conference this weekend have proposed subsidising shop-bought condoms to cut down on STI's and unplanned pregnancies, reports the Herald on Sunday.
Friends of the New Zealand-born diplomat found strangled and with an anti-gay note say he was like royalty in Jamaica - even before he was appointed British honorary consul.

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