Sunday, October 6, 2013

International Gay News Headlines (T25T-3)

"I promise that I will always say 'good night' and 'I love you' before I fall asleep. With you, I'll never feel alone."
So what's it like when it's just Jack? Not that fabulous, it seems. Sean Hayes' new sitcom is taking a critical battering.
After a seven year break, Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas are back under a new record label, posed for OUT magazine and responded to those gay rumours that have circled the boys for years.

Sydney Morning Herald

Barilla exec's anti-gays comments spark international boycott
Detroit Free Press
The president of Italy-based Barilla, the world's largest pasta producer, sparked a boycott of his famed firm Thursday after saying he would not show gay families in the firm's ads. "I would never make a spot with a homosexual family," Guido Barilla ...
Barilla pasta faces international boycott after executive's anti-gay comments ...OregonLive.com
Pasta Chairman Guido Barilla Apologizes for Anti-Gay Remarks Amid ...Towleroad
Barilla Boycott: CEO's Anti-Gay Comments Spark BacklashHuffington Post Canada
Same Same -Advocate.com -ABC Online
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The New Civil Rights Movement

The International Olympic Committee Blesses Russian Olympics Despite Anti ...
BuzzFeed
An initial version of the AP report stated, “The International Olympic Committee has dismissed concerns over Russia's law banning gay propaganda,” but the updated version of the story focused on the IOC's satisfaction that there would be no ...
International Olympic Committee 'Totally Satisfied' with Russia's Anti-Gay LawNational Review Online (blog)
IOC Satisfied Olympic Charter Respected for SochiABC News
International Olympics Committee: We Are 'Fully Satisfied' With Russia's Anti ...The New Civil Rights Movement
BBC News -International Business Times AU -Baltimore Sun
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Washington Post

IOC: No grounds to challenge Russian anti-gay law as Sochi Olympic Games ...
Washington Post
MOSCOW â€" The International Olympic Committee said Thursday that it had no grounds to challenge a Russian law widely perceived as anti-gay, angering LGBT and human rights activists, who say they will make their case with sponsors and governments lt;b>...

Georgina Beyerâ??s work will be recognised in an upcoming tribute evening, which will double as a fundraiser as she remains on dialysis awaiting a kidney transplant.
The Pentagon has sent a memo to alert same-sex married couples that they are now subject to the same federal ethics rules as straight couples.
Football players from the University of Mississippi have been made to attend an "educational dialogue" for interrupting a performance of a play with anti-gay slurs.
A protest has taken place in central Athens ahead of the handover of the Olympic flame to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics organisers.


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