Thursday, November 28, 2013

International Gay News Headlines (T25T-3)

Sad news for fans of indie pop from Brisbane.
Bastille are returning to Australia in 2014.
Chris Bolton's third album under the Seagull moniker is a beautiful, painfully raw affair.

Amnesty International says gay rights office in Haiti attacked, members tied ...
Fox News
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti â€" Amnesty International says the office of a gay rights group in Haiti has been ransacked and two of its members beaten. It said Wednesday that three men carrying handguns and machetes raided the office of the Haitian rights ...

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Indian Gays Demand an End to Discrimination
ABC News
Gay rights activists sang songs and carried rainbow-colored flags while marching to the beat of traditional Indian drums Sunday, as they paraded through India's capital to demand an end to the stigmatization of gays in the deeply conservative country.


AFP

Amnesty International: European court ruling in favour of gay asylum seekers ...
PinkNews.co.uk
Amnesty International argues that the presence of anti-gay laws can amount to fear of persecution in itself. Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Amnesty International's head of refugee and migrants' rights, said: ”The court skirted around the real issue in this case ...
EU gay asylum ruling gets divided receptionAFP
Top European Court: Gay Africans Have Right To Seek AsylumThinkProgress
EU court says gays facing persecution may have grounds for asylumLos Angeles Times
Amnesty International -Washington Post (blog) -The Independent
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Glbt soldiers who have lost their lives serving New Zealand will be remembered at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pride in Defence conference today.
A New Jersey restaurant has said it will investigate the case of a lesbian waitress who said she was denied a tip by a family who said they did not agree with her "lifestyle", after the family denied the allegations.
Bob Harper, personal trainer of The Biggest Loser fame, came out as gay on the programme, saying "I do believe this is the right time".
British band The xx have issued a statement saying they do not condone the use of their music by a Croatian anti-equal marriage organisation.


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