Yes to gay marriage means no social services, Catholic Church warns

The of Washington is threatening the district with suspending their if the city doesn’t change a proposed equal law, the reports.

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Russian court rules against lesbian couple

(Moscow) A on Tuesday ruled against two seeking to become ’s first legally married couple.

Fedotova- and Shipitko said the Tverskoi District Court upheld a decision by the city’s civil registry that said defined as between a .

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Portugal’s high court keeps gay marriage ban

(Lisbon, Portugal) Portugal’s on Friday upheld the country’s ban on , rejecting a challenge by two who are seeking to wed.

The court said its five judges ruled 3-2 against an appeal lodged by the women two years ago.

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Militias target some Iraqis for being gay

— The turns to the camera and pleads with his tormentors.

“I’m not a ,” he tells the who surround him. “I want you to know I am different. But I am not a .”

To some fundamentalist Iraqi , Ahmed Sadoun was worse than a .

He was . He wore his hair long and took female to grow breasts. Amused by his , Iraqi stopped him in December at a checkpoint in a southern dominated by radical Shiite . They groped and ridiculed him.

The assault was captured on video and circulated on cellphones throughout Baghdad, says Hili, founder of London-based Iraqi , a group dedicated to protecting ’s and . Shortly after the video was made public, Hili says contacted him, fearing for his life, and asked for his help to flee .

“Unfortunately, it was too late,” Hili says. turned up dead two months later, he says.

At least 82 men have been killed in since December, according to Iraqi . The has raised questions about the ’s ability to protect a diverse range of vulnerable minority that also includes and , especially following the withdrawal of U.S. from last month.

Mithal al-Alusi, a secular, liberal Sunni , is among those who blame the on armed militant such as al-Qaeda and the Mahdi .

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Lesbians in China petition to donate blood

(Beijing) in China have organized an calling for to be allowed to , reported Tuesday.

The petition, asking the government to remove a law enacted in 1998 banning the community from , has drawn 540 from and to …

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UN allows gay, lesbian group to join debates

() The granted official status to a and organization from Brazil on Monday, allowing it to participate in U.N. meetings ranging from to .

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LGBT health survey shows trouble spots

. The largest to date comparing the of the , , and community to and non- residents showed disparities.

The statistics:

In a of nearly 1,600 residents:

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Gillibrand wins Senate hearing on military policy on gays

New York’s Sen. href=”/topics/Kirsten_Gillibrand”>Kirsten Gillibrand said Monday she had won the commitment of the to hold its first hearing this fall on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on in the military.

The announcement is unusual because Gillibrand does not on the panel and did not push the issue in the last Congress, when she served on the House .

But the agreement by Armed Services chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) capped a campaign Gillibrand has been waging in the last few weeks to scrap or suspend the that has the Pentagon to discharge thousands of and since 1994.

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Homosexuals dispel myth of “progressive”

Each year in , from the end of June through August, and rights’ celebrate the “ - named after a bar on Christopher Street in New York, where fought back against police in 1969.

in the German known as “Christopher Street Day” join other around the world who take to the streets to demonstrate and demand greater .

Some of those would include expanded . In , civil , for instance, have been permitted among same- since 2001, but full marriages are not. therefore do not enjoy the same rights as married when it comes to taxes, retirement, benefits, or law.

For more on and rights and the community in , click on the links below, or listen to this week’s “Living in ” program to hear a more personal account of a .

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