A vigil is to be held in Liverpool this Sunday for James Parkes, the trainee police officer who was beaten by a gang of up to 20 youths last weekend. His parents have spoken of their disbelief he was attacked for doing nothing wrong.
American football star Larry Johnson has been suspended for allegedly making homophobic comments on Twitter.
John Baldacci, the governor of Maine, has given his support for gay marriage in the state and urged voters to do the same on November 3rd's referendum.
The second single from Christeene's upcoming EP Soldier Of Pleasure, which will be released Christmas 2009.
The title alone means that this book will be thumbed through by plenty of curious punters. Published by Bloomsbury and presumably aimed at the upcoming Christmas market, this is a pocket-sized hardback stocking-filler.
With 47 of Madonna's videos on this two disc package, Celebration: The Video Collection should be another shining moment in Madonna's already stellar career...
(EU) - European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg delivered its judgement in a landmark case on pension rights for registered same-sex partners (case of Tadao Maruko v. Versorgungswerk der deutschen Bühnen). The facts of the case are as follows: Mr. Maruko lived with his partner in a registered partnership. After his partner died the VddB, the pension scheme for German theatres, refused to pay him a survivor’s pension as such pensions were provided only for married partners. Mrners. Mr. Maruko sued the VddB, and the Bavarian Administrative CourtMunich referred the case to the ECJ for interpretation of the 2000/78/EC Directive which established a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation.
(UK) - The British government announced Thursday that it was ending efforts to deport Mehdi Kazemi, a 19-year-old Iranian who has been studying in Britain – a move that should be applauded by human rights activists everywhere. Had he been forced to return treturn to Iran, Kazemi would almost certainly have been executed there. Roger Roberts, one of eight members of the House of Lords who petitioned British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to allow Kazemi to stay in Britain, declared: “There is no doubt that he will be persecuted and possibly face state-sanctioned murder if he is forced to return.”
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 Advocate.com | LGBT March at White House Tomorrow Advocate.com Also in attendance will be Carol Watchler, cochair of the Central New Jersey Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network. “As we carry the photos of murder ... |
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We've had Mr. Gay Bay of Plenty and Mr. Gay Wellington pageants in recent weeks, and now it's time for the City of Sails to crown its own prince of queens.
Christchurch's LGBT community awards night may have had a different name this year, but for hostess Miss Mole it was business as usual as she handed out gongs to the city's leading lights in front of a huge cheering crowd.
Staff of ANZ bank have donated $5,483 to be put towards a new phone system for OUTLine NZ.
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