GLAAD's call to action over tabloid's "evil lesbian" headline
An American gay rights group has urged people to complain to the tabloid newspaper New York Post after staff refused to alter a offensive headline.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which monitors US media, contacted the paper to complain about its treatment of a child abuse story.
"Evil Lesbian Mom Left Toddler to Die Slow Death: DA," was the Post headline, which can still be viewed on their website.
Activists to protest against Moscow's homophobic Mayor
Gay rights activists in Russia are planning to stage a protest against the Mayor of Moscow's opposition to LGBT Pride events when he visits Paris next month.
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who banned two gay pride parades in 2006 and 2007 and seems likely to ban the third pride on 31 May this year, is going to be in Paris to take part in the M4 meeting (a summit of Paris, Berlin, London and Moscow Mayors) which will take place on 18-19 February in Paris City Hall.
Mayoral candidate wants to cut Pride London funding
An MEP who is standing as the UK Independence Party candidate for Mayor of London has said that if elected he would withdraw funding from the city's Pride celebrations.
Gerard Batten also pledged to target ethnic minority groups. In the 2004 Mayoral elections UKIP came fourth, winning 6% (115,665) of first preference votes.
A founder member of the party, Mr Batten has been an MEP for the London region since 2004.
Homophobic cleric seeks treatment in the UK
An Islamic preacher who has called for gay people to be put to death is to be allowed entry into the UK for medical treatment.
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 80, was at the centre of a row in 2004 when he came to London as a guest of Mayor Ken Livingstone, who was then heavily criticised by gay rights campaigners and Jewish organisations for inviting him.
He is spiritual leader of Islamicist organisation, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Bryant reveals new teen pregnancy strategy
Gay Labour MP Chris Bryant today launched a new report with dramatic newly compiled figures on teenage pregnancies in every constituency in England and Wales.
Mr Bryant represents the south Wales working class constituency of the Rhondda, where there is a particularly striking rate of teen pregnancies.
The report takes the form of an interactive web site, www.teenagemums.org.uk.
Brazil to distribute millions of condoms to prevent AIDS spread
Brazilian health officials on Sunday began distributing millions of condoms to fight the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases during Brazil's five-day Carnival 2008.
The government expects to hand out 19.5 million condoms by the end of the Carnival on February 6, state news service Agencia Brasil reported, under the program first launched several years ago.
Church officials in Brazil, which is home to the world's largest Roman Catholic population, have opposed the condom programme.
Review: A misanthropic take on gay relationships
Jason Charles' new play Counterfeit Skin certainly pulls no punches.
This unsparingly dark presentation of modern gay relationships is filled with shallow, self-serving characters paralysed by their own unhappy existences, and it provides no message of hope at the end of its two and a half hours.
It is tough going at times, and while all the performances are well-executed, one cannot help but feel depressed at the play's message.
Gays protest homophobic violence in Sydney
The Lord Mayor of Sydney spoke at a rally held in the city last weekend to protest at the rising number of attacks on gay and lesbian people.
Hundreds of people turned out on Australia Day for the Reclaim the Right event.
Organiser Ben Veenkamp welcomed the presence of Mayor Clover Moore and Liberal city councillor Shayne Mallard. There have been a series of attacks on gay people in and around Oxford St, the centre of the Sydney gay village.
MP calls for hormone block drugs for trans children
A Labour politician is backing a change to guidelines that stop young people who have Gender Identity Disorder being treated with drugs to forestall the effects of puberty.
Dr Lynne Jones, the MP for Selly Oak in Birmingham, has lent her support to calls for a change to the rules.
The Sunday Mercury has discovered that at least three children from the UK, one of whom is twelve years old, have travelled to the US for drug treatment.
Tatchell amubshes Pakistani President's motorcade
Human rights activist Peter Tatchell has taken direct action against the President of Pakistan by running in front of his car in a London street.
He was protesting against President Musharraf's actions against civilians in occupied Baluchistan region.
The Presidential motorcade was nearing the Park Lane hotel in London on Friday night, where General Musharraf was due to speak.
EXCLUSIVE: I felt safer as a cop, says Paddick
The Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London has added his voice to the controversy around safety on the streets of the city.
In an interview published eight days ago Home Secretary Jacqui Smith admitted that she would not feel safe walking the streets of London at night.
Speaking to PinkNews.co.uk, Brian Paddick said that it was difficult for him to judge how safe people felt on the streets today compared with ten or twenty years ago.
Mayoral candidate's gay bar meet and greet
The Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London will be holding an unusual event this evening in Covent Garden.
Brian Paddick will be hosting a 'meet and greet' event at the Box bar, which is billed as an opportunity for members of the LGBT community to meet him in person and put any questions they might have to him.
Londoners will be able to speak to him face to face between 7.30pm and 9.30pm.
Seminal artist upsets Anglican priest
A gay performance artist has sparked controversy with a new exhibition of drawings which he created by ejaculating onto paper.
The 54 drawings which make up Jordan McKenzie's exhibition, aptly entitled 'Spent,' consist of the artist's seminal fluids covered in a layer of carbon dust.
Commenting on the reaction his work has received, Mr McKenzie said: "It's been a very mixed bag. There have been discussions centred on the definitional aspect of the work. Is this drawing people have asked?
New HIV drug becomes available for UK patients
A new treatment for HIV positive people who have built up a resistance to other drugs has become available for use in the UK>
Raltegravir is the first in a new class of HIV treatments called integrase inhibitors.
It is available in tablet form and has been approved for use in combination with other antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV infection in adult patients whose current therapy is no longer controlling the virus.
Italy's Prime Minister resigns after losing vote
Romano Prodi's government has collapsed after he lost a vote of confidence in the Italian Senate last week.
The Roman Catholic Udeur party's withdrawl of support was key to the defeat.
It is likely that elections will have to be held less than two years after a coalition of nine parties took office. Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is leading in opinion polls.
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