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6 August 2012
France: Catholic Church opposes gay adoption in revived national prayer 42 The Catholic Church in France is reviving a tradition begun in the 17th century of praying for the country on 15 August to hope the government does not listen to "special requests" and to oppose gay adoption.
31 July 2012
Travel: Vibrancy and tradition in gay Stockholm 4 Home to international icons including IKEA and H&M, Stockholm is a vibrant city filled with great people, great food and lots of activities for the LGBT community, Joey Amato writes.
19 July 2012
France: Concern as senate approves protections for ‘sexual’ not ‘gender’ identity 12 Hopes that the election of a Socialist President and Assembly might usher in a new era of inclusivity in France took a blow last week, as Socialist Senators faced up to a first opportunity to legislate protections for the country’s trans minority but declined to do so.
19 July 2012
Russian embassy alerts parents to ‘gay families’ at British summer schools 62 The Russian embassy in London says it has received complaints from parents sending their children to UK summer schools where they have encountered, among other problems, 'families of homosexuals'.
9 July 2012
3,000 march at incident-free Budapest Pride 6 Budapest Pride 2012 took place safely on Saturday despite earlier threats and the mayor’s unwillingness to support the event.
6 July 2012
European Parliament condemns violence against lesbians in Africa 4 The European Parliament yesterday adopted a resolution on violence against lesbian women and gay and transgender rights more generally in Africa.
2 July 2012
Stonewall launches advice leaflets for gay tourists in Britain 40 Gay rights charity Stonewall has launched a series of multilingual leaflets designed to promote gay freedoms in Britain to foreign visitors.
2 July 2012
Comment: For those who will never blend in, we will always need Pride 34 Bruno Selun argues that for as long as 'white, heterosexual, able-bodied, middle-class, Christian and masculine' remains the cultural golden standard, the LGBT community will always have something to fight for.
29 June 2012
Budapest: MEPs open gay EuroGames 2012 3 Members of the European Parliament have taken part in the official opening of theEuroGames 2012 in Budapest, the Hungarian capital.
27 June 2012
Bulgaria: Government ‘should condemn priest’s call for stoning at Pride’ 15 The Bulgarian justice minister has been called on to repudiate a priest's call for physical violence against Pride marchers in the country's capital city.
26 June 2012
Audio: Phil Brown accidentally dubs Italian midfielder ‘homophobic’ 7 The former Hull City manager Phil Brown accidentally dubbed an Italian midfielder 'homophobic' this week, seemingly intending to suggest he was homesick.
22 June 2012
Denmark: Newspaper editor refuses to write about gay marriage laws 34 A Danish newspaper editor said he would refuse to include any news about the country's recently-implemented equal marriage laws.
19 June 2012
Gay former footballer to tweet on Ukraine’s anti-gay bill during England game + Gay former professional footballer Marcus Urban will be tweeting with AllOut.org at this evening's Ukraine-England match to highlight the draft anti-gay law currently being considered by the former country's legislature.
15 June 2012
Denmark: Equal marriage laws for gay couples come into effect today 44 Denmark's new laws allowing gay couples to marry in the state church have come into effect today.
11 June 2012
European Commission publishes new report on trans and intersex discrimination 13 The European Commission has published a new report into discrimination against transgender and intersex people around the EU.
8 June 2012
Poland: Teaching materials for nurses ‘calls gays socially dangerous’ 40 Anger has been expressed over teaching materials for nurses in Poland which reportedly describe homosexuality as a 'pathology'.
7 June 2012
Danish parliament approves equal marriage laws 106 The Danish parliament has approved equal marriage laws 85 to 24 today.
6 June 2012
Video: Pro-gay fly-posting campaign disturbed in Montenegro 7 An LGBT youth group in Montenegro has initiated a nocturnal campaign to put up pro-gay posters around the capital city of Podgorica.
29 May 2012
Friend tells court he thought Anders Breivik ‘may have been gay’ 33 A friend of the Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik told a court today he believed the killer may have been gay after he began expressing feminine traits and moved in with his mother, cutting himself off socially.
29 May 2012
Ukraine: President petitioned on draft anti-gay law 29 43,000 people have so far signed a petition to the president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, over a draft amendment to the country's morality laws.

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