Monday, August 19, 2013

International Gay News Headlines (T25T-3)

Four Russian runners shared very public kisses seemingly in protest at the Putin government's anti-homosexuality laws after winning gold at the World Track & Field Championships in Moscow.
Today thousands of Kiwi same-sex couples will start walking down the aisle across New Zealand.
Is the thrusting world of WWE wrestling ready for a gay star? Yes, says the first one to officially come out.

The Seattle Times

2013 International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics open water swim
The Seattle Times
Francesca Leonetti, of Seattle, in red and blue, jumps into Lake Washington for the 2013 International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics open water swim on Mercer Island Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013. The open water swim, which hosted more than 100 people for one ...

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The International Gay War on Black People
American Thinker
Under pressure from gay power activists in Washington such as Phil Pannel, the mayor of Washington, D.C., Vincent Gray, decided to drop McClurkin from the concert. McClurkin was humiliated. LGBT activists felt that someone who had called homosexuality ...

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National Post

Putin's anti-gay laws set the stage for an international battle
Los Angeles Times
The uproar has prompted Olympic officials to insist that the Russian government explain the anti-gay laws. Officials from the international soccer federation are also wondering how the anti-homosexual push might affect Russia's hosting of the 2018 ...
Ice Skaters Plan to Stand Against Russia's Gay Law at OlympicsThe Atlantic
International Olympic Committee May Join Russia in Punishing Gay AthletesHuffington Post
Sochi 2014: International Paralympic Committee seeking 'assurances and ...National Post
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A minimum of fifteen same-sex couples married around the country today, the first day that same-sex marriages became legal, according to figures released minutes ago.
Two Australian men have been married today as part of a promotion mounted by Tourism NZ and Te Papa.
"It was really surreal," says Tash Vitali of the moment when Unitarian minister Rev Matt Tittle proclaimed her and Melissa Ray "wife and wife."
New Zealand's first same-sex weddings are taking place, eight months after the country ended the ban on gay couples marrying.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has claimed that international concern over his country's discriminatory laws, and subsequent calls to boycott the Winter Olympics in Russia, is a media-"invented problem".
A Republican member of the California State Assembly has announced that at least one of his sons will be pulled from public school, following the passing of a law allowing transgender people to use bathrooms according to their gender identity.


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