Russian LGBT journalist vows to out closeted anti-gay lawmakers
Russian LGBT journalist vows to out closeted anti-gay lawmakers – “This is a warning. They want to destroy our lives, and we will destroy them,” said Elena Kostyuchenko
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Stranger in my homeland – Realizing I was Gay in Russia felt like a terminal disease diagnosis
Stranger in my homeland – Realizing I was Gay in Russia felt like a terminal disease diagnosis
by Wes Hurley – Special to the Seattle Gay News. An article showing that homophobia, and persecution as a mid-set, are nothing new in Russia.
Turkish, Muslim and Lesbian
Turkish, Muslim and Lesbian. Firstly, you have to be invited. Then you have to promise utter discretion. On the assigned evening, you enter, and if your name is on the list you’re in.
You’ve suddenly arrived in another world. There are scores of women dancing, talking, eating, drinking. They come from different backgrounds- but they’re united, as Turkish and as lesbians.
Tom Daley comes out – as straight
Tom Daley: ‘I am not gay — but I wouldn’t be ashamed if I were’. Olympic diver Tom Daley, who was named Attitude magazine’s “sexiest man in the world,” has said he is not gay, although he would not be ashamed if he were. He is interviwed in today’s Sunday Mirror.
Soprano Joyce DiDonato dedicates song at BBC Proms to gay victims worldwide
Soprano Joyce DiDonato dedicates song at BBC Proms to gay victims worldwide. Soloist will dedicate ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ to LGBT victims of persecution, especially in Russia
Ukraine: Can We Be in the EU and Discriminate against LGBT People Please?
On Thursday Ukraine’s Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Valeriya Lutkowska, announced that she and a number of parliamentarians will travel to Brussels to try and… Read More »Ukraine: Can We Be in the EU and Discriminate against LGBT People Please?
Pope calls student to say it's ok to be gay
Pope Francis calls student to say it’s ok to be gay. The Head of the Catholic Church says he is praying for a religious French 25-year-old after he said he was in no opposition to gay people
Russia: First person to be convicted under anti-gay ‘propaganda’ law arrested by his own parents
24-year-old Dmitry Isakov may become the first gay rights activist to be convicted under Russia’s controversial “gay propanda” laws, after he was attacked and arrested by his own parents at a solo campaign in July.
Kevin Rudd – if we believed every word of the Bible, we might as well have ‘fought for the confederacy in the US civil war.’
Kevin Rudd – if we believed every word of the Bible, we might as well have‘fought for the confederacy in the US civil war.’ Australia’s PM Kevin Rudd gives ‘answer of the century’ on gay marriage. As the run up to the election heats up, the Christian leader of the Labour party tells a pastor exactly why he believes in equality.
US oral history project reveals pre-Stonewall rights group
LGBT history in the USA didn’t just happen in New York and San francisco. We’ve come across an article in the Kansas magazine “camp”, telling the story of ‘Paul’ who back in 1968, started a successful LGBT group at Kansas State University, a whole year before the Stonewall riots in New York established that city’s first safe space for its LGBT community!