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LGBT group outraged after council refuse to fly gay pride flag
A COUNCIL’s decision not to fly a gay pride flag has been condemned by a local LGBT group. The group has also claimed the ban by councillors at Abingdon, Oxfordshire, is discriminatory. The council has said that the flag represents a political organisation and it would be wrong to honour it with the same prominence as the...
‘I am gay — but I wasn’t born this way
Is sexuality purely the result of our biology? Brandon Ambrosino argues that simplistic explanations have ignored the fluid, shape-shifting nature of our desires. “You can’t be gay.” She was on top of me. It wasn’t a command — it was a challenge. You so obviously cannot be gay, was her implication,...
London Muslim extremist called for gay people to be thrown off high buildings
A SPEECH by an alleged Muslim extremist in a Marquee in Luton called for gay people to be thrown to their deaths from a tall building, the Old Bailey has been told. The jury was played a secret recording of a speech given in the back garden of a home in the Luton suburbs to an audience that included men accused of drumming up...
Orlando killer Omar Mateen ‘visited Pulse gay club’
The man behind the worst mass shooting in recent US history visited the gay nightclub where he carried out the massacre several times, witnesses say. Chris Callen, a performer at Pulse in Orlando, Florida, told the New York Daily News that Omar Mateen had visited the venue over the past three years. Investigators are pursuing...
Ukraine gay rights tension mirrors post-Maidan upheaval
Ukraine's politicians are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to gay rights. The hard place is public opinion. Most people see homosexuality as "something alien", says gay activist Zoryan Kis. He says same-sex couples are sometimes asked to leave restaurants and that the majority of Ukrainians just want...
Florida Pulse gay club attacked in Orlando — mass casualties
A shooting inside a gay nightclub in the Florida city of Orlando has caused mass casualties, police say. Orlando Police also said in a tweet that the shooter inside the Pulse Club, located in the heart of the city, is now dead. A bomb squad and hazardous material team are at the scene, and a controlled explosion was carried...
Germany anti-gay law: Plan to rehabilitate convicted men
Germany is set to annul the convictions of gay men under a law criminalising homosexuality that was applied zealously in post-war Germany. Justice Minister Heiko Maas is to overturn the convictions and create a "right to compensation". About 50,000 men were convicted between 1946 and 1969, under a 19th-Century law...
North Carolina LGBT law fuels demonstrations for and against
Thousands of activists gathered at the North Carolina legislature on Monday as it reconvened for the first time since enacting a law criticised as anti-gay. Supporters and opponents of the bill held competing rallies outside the statehouse in Raleigh. More than 50 critics of the legislation were arrested after entering and...
My secret life as a gay ultra-Orthodox Jew
Chaya, not her real name, is an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who is gay. Here she describes her struggle to accept her sexuality, and why she has to keep it a secret from those who would make her choose between her identity and her family. I would lose everything if I came out. We are a tightly knit community and I think few...
Timothy suspected Baskov of being homosexual
Russian rapper Timothy, became the guardian of chastity, he tries to discover representatives of homosexuals as soon as possible. After Dima Bilan, which is called by Black Star "rear wheel drive", Timothy decided to convict the main blond of the country Nikolay Baskov in "gayish...
Aide to would-be Labour mayor axed over SHOCKING tweets about women and gay people
AN AIDE to Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has been suspended over a series of offensive messages posted on social media. Shueb Salar sent several tweets containing abusive language about women and gay people, it emerged last night. Mr Salar, a parliamentary assistant to the ex-minister, has been suspended from...
The brutal execution of ‘gay couple’ by militants ISIS shocked the world (photo)
The extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) threw two Syrian men off the top of a building in Palmyra city in the central Syrian province of Homs, after accusing them of being a gay couple, local sources reported on Wednesday. A masked ISIS militant carried out the death sentence against the supposedly “gay...