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Cuban President Raul Castro backs gay rights, says daughter

Cuban President Raul Castro backs gay rights, according to his daughter.

May 13, 2012

FDA advisers back approval for pill to protect healthy people from HIV

May 10, 2012

Adam Lambert performs on "Jimmy Kimmel Live"

Apr 27, 2012

Gambian president won't 'offend God' by giving gays human rights

The President of Gambia, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Jammeh, said he won't take foreign aid "bribes" meant to force him to be more liberal on gay rights.

Apr 24, 2012

Vatican tells nuns: Be meaner to gays

American Catholic nuns said they are "stunned" by a letter from the Vatican saying they spend too much time helping people and not enough time condemning gays and lesbians.

Apr 20, 2012

Prominent Canadian gay activist murdered

Prominent Canadian activist Raymond Taavel, 49, was beaten to death in Halifax this week.

Apr 17, 2012

Mayor of London stops plan to advertise 'ex-gay' group on city buses

London Mayor Boris Johnson has stepped in to stop an "ex-gay" Christian group from putting ads on the sides of buses.

Apr 12, 2012

German man from New Zealand wins Mr Gay World 2012

Apr 9, 2012

Cardinal: Gay leader's letter about teens is 'unfair, unjust, inflammatory'

New York City Catholic Charities junior board member Joseph Amodeo has quit after Cardinal Dolan sent a caustic letter in regards to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teenagers.

Apr 8, 2012

Irish priest accidentally shows gay porn during PowerPoint

Leaders of the Catholic Church in Ireland are trying to figure out how in the world a priest ended up showing gay porn images as part of a PowerPoint during a first communion class attended by parents.

Apr 2, 2012

Prosecutors seek murder charges against Neo-Nazis in murder of gay man

Prosecutors in Chile are seeking murder charges against the Neo-Nazis who beat and tortured a young gay man, Daniel Zamudio, to death.

Mar 28, 2012

Gay men in Turkey must go through humiliation to be discharged from military

Gay men in Turkey must "prove" they are gay through a humiliating series of activities and questions in order to be exempt from the military.

Mar 27, 2012

Gay politician from Nepal asks Facebook for 'third gender' option

Nepalese lawmaker Sunil Babu Pant has asked Facebook to allow users to choose a third gender while signing up.

Mar 26, 2012

Gay men arrested on cruise ship humiliated, put in cell with roaches

John Robert Hart, 41 and Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, said that after they were arrested for "buggery" on board a gay cruise in Dominica, they were interrogated, humiliated and tossed into a jail cell with roaches.

Mar 23, 2012

Two gay men plead guilty after getting arrested for having sex during gay cruise

John Robert Hart, 41 and Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, will remember their 2012 cruise vacation for all the wrong reasons: the two men were thrown into jail for having sex on the boat.

Mar 22, 2012

Nobel Peace Prize laureate rejects idea of making homosexuality legal

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has announced that she has no intention of making homosexuality legal.

Mar 21, 2012

Madonna to challenge St. Petersburg's 'gay propaganda' law

Madonna has vowed to defy St. Petersburg's recently enacted gay propaganda law when she performs this summer in the city, Bloomberg Businessweek reported.

Mar 21, 2012

Video: Lesbian couple engaged during NHL game

Mar 19, 2012

Ugandan gay rights group sues American evangelist Scott Lively

A group of gay and lesbian activists from Uganda are suing evangelical Scott Lively in a U.S. court, accusing him of whipping up the Ugandan populace and putting the lives of LGBT Ugandans in danger.

Mar 15, 2012

'KONY 2012' charity Invisible Children linked to gay marriage ban Prop 8 backers

Mar 13, 2012

Russian city of St. Petersburg bans gay 'propaganda' in public spaces

In nine days, it will be a crime in St. Petersburg, Russia, to promote "the propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors.

Mar 12, 2012

Former British PM Tony Blair endorses gay marriage

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has endorsed an effort to legalize gay marriage in the country, The Independent On Sunday reported.

Mar 12, 2012

IGLTA hosts 2012 convention in Brazil

Mar 12, 2012

More than 50 Iraqi teenagers killed in Baghdad

More than a 50 gay or believed to be gay Iraqi teenagers have been brutally murdered in Baghdad in the past month as anti-gay violence grows in Iraq.

Mar 11, 2012