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Saturday 26th at 4 PM (French time), a national kiss-in against homophobia will take place in 10 french cities. The organisor is a 21 years old student named Arthur.

See video interview: (translated below)

The concept's origin is to be able to kiss everywhere. When one is homosexual it's...

Citing an inability to maintain security at the event, Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic advised organisers of the 2009 Pride Parade on Saturday to move the rally from the streets of central Belgrade to Usce Park, a venue traditionally used for rock concerts. Organisers of the parade called this unacceptable and cancelled the event.

On Friday, President Boris Tadic had assured organisers that marchers would be protected, but Cvetkovic’s U-Turn came following police advice that...

If you look at older posts on this blog you will find two other articles about Bryce, who disappeared and from whom his boyfriend had no news since he came out to his parents. Everyone assumed he was sent to an Ex-gay camp by force. And it is only almost 100 days later that Travis finally hears something.

Rev. Harris writes on his website: ( http://savebryce.ergonomicalministries.org/ )

Rev. Harris wrote:Just so there is no misunderstanding...
Bryce did not speak to...

"BRITNEY BOY" No more !

Ok this might not be great world LGBT related, but since his "Leave Britney alone" video reached the whole world, I thought I'd share with everyone this "breaking news" that our beloved Chris Crocker has decided to break up with his Britney Spears addiction.

Why? Because she never thanked him for having posted his video, he said. You can watch the full video where he declares it to the world below:

« The Ballad Of Gay Tony », is the new episode of the Rockstar Games series "Grand Theft Auto", that should come out at the end of october on Xbox360. It follows the life of Luis Fernando Lopez, bodyguard of Anthony Prince, aka "Gay Tony", the boss of various night clubs, including gay ones, and dealing with the mafia to seek easy money...

To see the trailer, simply play the video below:

Ellen Lee DeGeneres the American stand-up comedienne, and television hostess of the award winning syndicated talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", has announced she will be the 4th judge on the ninth season of American Idol.
She will be replacing Paula Abdul and her role would start only after the auditions.

Many of you know she is an out and proud lesbian woman, now married to her wife Portia de Rossi. They were married on August...

Between 1000 and 2000 people participated in the Gay Pride march saturday in the streets of Budapest for the 14th edition. The event was placed under heavy Police force protection and happened without violence towards the participants, unlike last year. A few hundreds of anti-gay protesters tried to stop the march by burning rainbow flags and provoking the Police but were quickly scattered by them.

Last week 13 embassies and Whoopi Goldberg had shown their support to the Hungarian LGBT community... This...

Remember… In July 2008, serious violences had sullied the Gay Pride in Budapest. Extremists of right-hand side had launched paving stones and kingpins on the participants of walk…

The embassies of South Africa, Germany, Australia, of Canada, Spain, of the United States, France, Norway, of the Netherlands, of the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Slovenia and Sweden, come to publish a Joint Declaration to bring their support and their solidarity at community LGBT of Hungary, whose 14th Gay Pride will be held in...

Harvey Milk, the slain gay-rights activist made more famous by the recent Oscar-winning film "Milk," didn’t make Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cut for the a statewide day of recognition last year.

But today Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced their selection of Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in the state, into the California Hall of Fame.

In 2008, Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation to proclaim May 22 – Milk’s birthday – a date of “special...

Uruguay – Lawmakers in Uruguay have approved a bill allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt.

Despite opposition from Uruguay's Roman Catholic Church and some of the political opposition, the 99-seat Chamber or Representatives on Thursday passed the bill 40-13, with the remaining members absent.

It goes next to the Senate, which approved an earlier version of the bill in July but must now vote again on modifications.

If it becomes law, Uruguay would be the first country in Latin American...

A month ago I posted an article about Bryce, a young boy who has disappeared after his parents found out he was gay and that his friends suspect to have been sent in an Ex-Gay camp, as this was made the only condition under which his parents would not take away everything he owned and throw him out.

According to the official website ( http://savebryce.ergonomicalministries.org/ ) It has now been 71 days since Bryce's boyfriend,...

Spain’s Sergio Lara from Barcelona took home the crown of Mr. Gay Europe 2009 in the Grande Finale in Oslo, Norway, August 23.

This is the second year in a row that Spain wins the title of Mr. Gay Europe.

Sergio is 26 years old, he is a psychology graduate, and he also has a music middle degree.



The sympatic young Spaniard was a popular winner amongst both...

On August 17th, a JIRA concern was opened about offensive content towards transgender people in the XStreet SL adult content disclaimer. This issue has quickly spread among the SL LGBT community and within the small time that it was open, 288 SL residents had already voted their support to change the text.


The text read as follows:

...You are about to be redirected to Xstreet SL Uncensored.
The adult content within this site is intended for ADULTS ONLY (18 years of age or...

Wednesday, 29 July 2009 09:39 RC News

Another week, another hate crime at the World Outgames in Copenhagen as fireworks thrown at athletes

Copenhagen police have charged a 31-year-old man with committing a hate crime after he threw powerful explosives at participants in the city’s World Outgames event, public broadcaster DR has indicated in a report.

A 31-year-old city man was arrested yesterday at St. Jakobs Church in Østerbro, where he allegedly threw...

Atif, 27, from the Zayouna area of Baghdad, fled for northern Iraq at the beginning of April. “I
call people in Bagdhad and they tell me, don’t come back, they are massacring us: they are
massacring gays here.”

Human Rights Watch, the international NGO fighting human rights in the world, published a stunning report yesterday that reveals the massacre of homosexuals in Iraq. Executed my militias who torture and murder the men that they suspect of being homosexuals.

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On Saturday, August 22, 2009 Second Pride brings you the Teahouse of the August Moon, the first fundraiser of the season leading up to the Festival next year!

The Teahouse event runs from Noon to 10PM SLT, with dance, party, and theatre taking place at five different venues:

You will not want to miss the 2 floor shows, at Noon and at 5PM where a cast of 25 transform a Japanese village...

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Travis Swanson launched a call a few days ago, in the hope to find Bryce Faulkner, 23 y/o, his boyfriend from whom he has no news.
According to Travis, Bryce's parents found out about his homosexuality and forced him to follow a program to be "cured". Before that, Bryce was planning to come out to his family in Arkansas before going to live with Travis in Wisconsin. Since their last phone call, on June 15th,...

Link to article follows. I don't know whether it is ironic or metaphoric that it is an attached amendment to a defense spending bill -- but I guess you take it however and wherever you can get it . . . errr, you know what I mean!

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090717/US.Hate.Crimes/

You have to see this !

Second Pride goes on TV with Life On Line !

Watch Steve Cropper's Life On Line TV Show in which you can see an interview from our very own Marketing Chair for Second Pride 2009: Leland Ansar !

And share a tear with us by watching the AMAZING surprise after the interview brought to us by the group SpaceJunky

A few weeks ago, a young australian, member of YouTube (steviebeebishop) sent a call to other users to collaborate in a video aiming to condemn...