RUSSIAN GAYS SUE PRESIDENT:
Organisers of Moscow Pride have filed a lawsuit against the Russian President, accusing him of ignoring pleas to overturn the city’s ban on their parade.
100 MOST INFLUENTIAL UK GAYS:
British newspaper, The Independent, has released its annual Pink List; honouring the elite of the British LGBT community.
BRIT GOV: DISCREET GAYS SAFE IN IRAN:
British Labour party home secretary, Jacqui Smith, has stated that Iranian refugees can be be deported back to Iran “as long as they live their lives ‘discreetly’.”
ANTI-GAY HATE-CRIME HITS YEOVILLE:
The apparently-homophobic murder of a Joburg drag queen has sparked activists into heightening their campaign against hate crimes.
GAY ROYALTY SPEAKS AT EUROPRIDE:
Openly gay Indian royal, Prince Mavendra Singh Gohil, will be one of the three opening speakers at the Stockholm Europride 2008.
THE ‘FEMININE’ GAY BRAIN:
New scientific research suggests that the brains of homosexuals have structural differences to those of ‘straight’ people of the same gender.
GAY MARRIAGE FEVER IN CALIFORNIA:
It’s expected that over 100 000 couples will tie the knot following the issuing of the first same-sex marriage license in California on Monday.
GAY WEDDING PRIEST QUITS:
One of the two gay priests who got married in a controversial same-sex church ceremony in the UK has resigned.
TAC PREVAILS OVER RATH:
In a landmark judgment, the Cape High Court has halted clinical trials and advertising by controversial vitamin salesman Matthias Rath.