Wednesday, September 25, 2013

International Gay News Headlines (T25T-3)

Same Same's resident bookworm chooses ten brave, brilliant, interesting and inspiring non-fiction books that changed the way we think about ourselves.
He's big and hairy, but not bitchy or scary. Meet Big Brother's gay, bearded, beary intruder Nathan Little.
Russian opera diva Anna Netrebko opens the New York Met season amid anti-Putin protest, finding her art at the centre of a hotly topical row.

'Pride Heart,' Gay 'Braveheart' Spoof, Airs At Queer Lisboa International Film ...
Huffington Post
International lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) film festivals are often sites of queer-focused work that speak to the experience and circumstances of LGBT people in creative, subversive ways. The Queer Lisboa International Film Festival ...

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Putin Says No Discrimination of Gays in Russia
ABC News
President Vladimir Putin denied Thursday that gays face discrimination in Russia, saying that a new law that has drawn protests worldwide does not infringe on their rights. Putin on Thursday maintained that the law bans only "propaganda of ...


International Business Times

Anti-gay law shames Putin's Russia
Human Rights Watch
It seems that the Kremlin underestimated the prominence of the international LGBT rights movement and the damage the law would do to Russia's image,especially with the Sochi Olympics just months away, the host country being so much in the spotlight.
Russia Moves Against Anti-Gay Discrimination At 2014 Sochi Winter OlympicsInternational Business Times
Holding The Olympics In Our Gay WorldBuzzFeed
Gay Rights in Russia and the 2014 Sochi Winter OlympicsCenter for Research on Globalization
New York Times (blog) -Vancouver Sun
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A HIV Treatments Update session titled Ending HIV - the treatment revolution & the cure, is intriguing the management of HIV peer support and advocacy organisation Body Positive.
The Anglican Church may conduct same-sex marriages as early as 2016, according to a prominent liberal Church cleric, Priest Associate Clay Nelson - and he believes the Church should start pre-preparing liturgy now.
In a major and long-awaited victory for transgender rights campaigners the government is changing Corrections' rules to in future assign prisoners to the prison that matches their actual gender, not the gender they were born with.
Police in Texas are treating a vicious attack on a young gay man as a possible hate crime.
A pastor in the US state of Pennsylvania has been sacked by his congregation after conducting a same-sex wedding.
The London Evening Standard has used an editorial to argue the case for the capital to host the 2018 Gay Games - ahead of next month's decision.


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