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Canadian citizenship guide to reference gay rights

adrian — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:29:43 +0000

OTTAWA — The next printing of a guide designed to educate immigrants applying for Canadian citizenship will contain references to gay rights — ones thatImmigration Minister Jason Kenney had vetoed for the current version. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney had vetoed for the current version.

Conservative MP Rick Dykstra, parliamentary secretary to Kenney, said Wednesday the government will include references to the legality of gay marriage in Canada and prohibitions against discrimination based on sexual orientation in the next version, due out within months.

Only 1 percent of UK is out and openly gay

admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:41:03 +0000

One per cent of the UK or more than 480,000 people or one per cent of the United Kingdom’s adult population regard themselves as gay or lesbian while a further 245,000 or 0.5 percent say they are bisexual?s adult population regard themselves as gay or lesbian while a further 245,000 or 0.5 percent say they are bisexual.

Neighbours Toronto Canada defend gay couple against homophobic attack

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:11:18 +0000

Residents in a Toronto neighbourhood speak out against a church group that they said has been targeting the home of a same-sex couple.

Former Bush campaign chief comes out!

adrian — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:59:57 +0000

Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay, The Atlantic magazine’s politics editor reported Wednesday.

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Nepal’s first international gay parade

adrian — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:39:04 +0000

KATMANDU, Nepal — Hundreds of gays, lesbians, transvestites and their supporters danced through the Nepalese capital Wednesday in the country’s first international gay parade.The participants dressed in colorful clothes thronged the main streets of Kathmandu, led by Sunil Pant, a member of Nepal’s parliament and the nation’s most prominent gay activist.

Pant’s gay rights group organized the parade to campaign for greater rights for sexual minorities in Nepal. “Our message is ending all forms of discrimination,” Pant told reporters.

By Binaj Gurubacharya (CP)

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3 Films of Gay Interest featured at TIFF 2010

admin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:34:28 +0000

The 35th Toronto International Film Festival has announced this year’s line-up of Galas and Special Presentations which take place September 9 to 19th, 2010. Three films making their World Premiere at the festival that have queer interest are: Beginners, Yves Saint Laurent – Pierre Berge, L’Amour Fou and Rabbit Hole.

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Research shows better healthcare for gay men equals better HIV outcomes for general population

adrian — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:44:33 +0000

A decline in HIV prevalence among the general population has been achieved through improvements to HIV prevention and treatment services for gay men, and other men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM). Fridae’s Laurindo Garcia reports from Vienna.

This new, compelling data, was presented on Saturday in Vienna, Austria by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights.

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By Laurindo Garcia - Fridae’s HIV Programs Manager and correspondent based in Manila.

Daly, feminist theology prof, lesbian separatist dies

vincent — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:32:05 +0000

(Boston)Feminist theologian and author Mary Daly, who retired from a professorship at Boston College rather than allow men to take her classes, has died.

College spokesman Jack Dunn confirmed Wednesday that Daly died Sunday at a Massachusetts nursing home. She was 81. He says she had been ill for some time.

According to the GLBTQ encyclopedia of the social sciences:

“An outspoken lesbian-feminist and separatist, Daly provoked outrage by challenging established ideas and institutions that she considered destructive to women’s power and creativity.

“From organized religion to the university world she calls “academentia,” to men themselves, Daly dissected the “death-loving” culture of patriarchy and its effects on the minds and hearts of women. However, her brilliant body of work was far more than a litany of complaints. It was a joyously iconoclastic search for liberation, and an exploration of a hypothetical women-centered landscape where patriarchal domination has lost its power.

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San Francisco police crackdown on Dore fair sex

vincent — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:41:05 +0000

San Francisco police are cracking down on public sex acts at this year’s Dore Alley street fair in July and are warning organizers that if they do not control attendees, the event’s longevity will be in doubt.

The stepped up enforcement against lewd behavior at the South of Market street party, officially known as the Up Your Alley Fair, comes after two individuals filed numerous complaints with the city’s Office of Citizen Complaints against the 14 police officers assigned to patrol the 2008 event for not addressing the acts of public indecency.