GayTalkRadio: International Gay News Headlines (T25T-3)

One of the foremost and longest-running â€˜pray the gay awayâ€™ therapy programs in Australia closes tomorrow, and our LGBTI community of faith will mark its passing.

One of Oxford Streetâ€™s longest-running gay venues is now on the market, with its management reassuring punters that events will run as usual there for the time-being.

The entire Oxford Street community is struggling with the effect Sydney's new lock-out laws are having, as locals fear we'll soon lose our unique and valuable gay spaces.

Ambassadors and bridge builders international to hold candlight vigil for ...
Gay News Network
With Living Waters Australia (LWA), one of Australia's foremost and longest running ex-gay/conversion therapy programs closing this weekend, LGBTI advocates will be holding a vigil at Taylor Square to remember those who have suicided because of ...

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Africa's anti-gay movement spreads to Ethiopia
WZTV
ADDIS ABBA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Two groups in Ethiopia say they will hold an anti-gay demonstration in the capital. Ethiopia appears set to become the latest African country to increase the public demonization of gays, following new legislation in Uganda ...

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Soccer player guilty of anti-gay gesture
Fresno Bee
BRIGHTON, England â€" A British court has found Turkish forward Colin Kazim-Richards guilty of making an anti-gay gesture at a match while playing for Blackburn. The 27-year-old claimed he was bantering with the crowd at his former club Brighton when he ...

A youth-led group pushing for change in the criminal justice system remains worried about the risk of abuse of the rights of transgender prisoners.

Rainbow Youth is offering a $1,000 scholarship to a New Zealander aged 27 or under who wants to compete at the Asia Pacific Outgames in Darwin next month.

Janelle MonÃƒÂ¡e has announced a shared concert with New ZealandÃ¢??s Kimbra in Auckland next month.

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Peter Sumner a former Army man, LGBTI rights advocate and long time pillar of the Wellington gay community died this week aged 84. Sumner was a former Lieutenant Colonel who played an important role in the fight for Homosexual Law Reforms in 1984/85. Bill Logan told gaynz.com that recalled discussions Sumner had with reform opponent […]

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Leading anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera was detained at the Canadian border for his extremist views, which the country deemed 'hate propaganda'.

A 34-year-old Canadian was robbed, held at gunpoint and raped by a man he had arranged to meet on Grindr.

Three Russian gay couples will marry in Copenhagen next month, in the same week the city hosts Eurovision.

A Tory councillor who said he was "disturbed" that gay actor Sir Ian McKellen had been visiting schools has withdrawn his nomination to become Bristolâ€™s next Lord Mayor.

A Pennsylvania lawmaker is attempting to legalise same-sex divorce, despite the state not recognising equal marriage.

The Pope has asked for forgiveness for the "moral damage" caused to children through abuse carried out by clergy members.

Labour would have a Secretary of State for Women and Equalities if it won the next election, Ed Miliband has announced.

An anti-gay demonstration will be held in Ethiopia later in April by two groups which deem being gay "dangerous", and claim that gay people "rape children".

One of the first gay couples to marry in England and Wales, Subodh Rathod and Niranjan Kamatkar, write for PinkNews on organising their wedding in Haringey.

International Development Minister Alan Duncan has rejected calls to cut foreign aid to countries with anti-gay laws.

The attorney general of the US state of Virginia has filed a brief which condemns the state's same-sex marriage ban, saying it is unconstitutional.

A former Royal Bank of Scotland employee has been sentenced to life for murdering his wife and incinerating her body to stop her revealing his sexuality.

In protest against the Church of Norway's refusal to perform same-sex marriages, mayors have vowed to open up city halls to allow priests to perform blessings for gay couples' marriages.

The former chief executive of Stonewall claims to have heard of â€œdozens of cases from men and womenâ€ of alleged sexual harassment at Westminster.

Following a school board meeting convened because due to complaints from parents about her gender identity, a transgender teacher has been reinstated.

Planning minister Nick Boles has rejected criticism over the appointment of Nicky Morgan as the new Minister for Women.

Singer Pharrell Williams has announced his support for same-sex marriage, saying "equality for everybody".

The Health Secretary "absolutely wanted" Northern Ireland to lift its lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men giving blood, his spokeswoman says.

A bisexual blind asylum seeker from Cameroon was beaten by immigration staff in an attempt to deport him last weekend, campaigners have alleged.

A UKIP chairman has defended a prospective councillor who describes anal sex as â€œsodomyâ€, and now says he is against â€œaggressive homosexualsâ€ who pretend they are â€œnormalâ€.

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