January 2010
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First Mr Gay China pageant unveils contestants.
This is the question everyone will soon be asking, as both foreign and Chinese press caught their first glimpse of five of the eight Mr Gay China Pageant contestants yesterday afternoon at Lantung Bar and Bistro in Solana Mall.
Gayographic, Beijing’s only gay PR and event management company, is organizing the landmark pageant that will be held this Friday evening at 8 pm on Friday at...
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Gay Muslim scholar tries to shift attitudes...
Junaid Bin Jahangir was such a devout Muslim that when he arrived in Canada he ate only yogurt for two days until he was sure which food followed halal dietary rules.
The university student prayed five times a day, and joined a local mosque.
Then one day, at age 27, he started to wonder why he had never been with a girl. “Why don’t I like women that way?” he asked, and it...
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Portugal passes gay marriage bill.
The predominantly Catholic nation looks set to be the sixth European country - after Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Norway - to allow same-sex marriages although many other European countries have introduced civil partnerships.
Portugal’s parliament Friday approved plans to legalise gay marriage, less than three decades after revoking the country’s ban on...
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Celebrities. Channing Tatum's penis is gross.
“Channing Tatum’s penis is gross. It looks like a hot dog that’s been left too long on the grill. The tip is hot-pink, singed, and shriveled. It appears angry. And it’s painful to view. My penis hurts just from looking at it. Movie stars tend to be vain, by nature and profession, but Chan—that’s what everyone calls him—does not mind one bit showing me his sad,...
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Puerto Rico. Fortuño proposes ban on same-sex...
Rejects bill that would lower age to legally consent to have sex.
Gov. Fortuño told a group of religious leaders Friday that he plans to consult voters about the inclusion of a constitutional amendment that would declare the exclusivity of marriage as the union between a man and a woman and to veto any legislation that would lower from 16 to 14 years old the age for a minor to legally consent...
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Italy 'to open first prison for transgender...
Italy is to open one of the world’s first prisons for transgender inmates, reports say.
The prison, at Pozzale, near the Tuscan city of Florence, is expected to house inmates who mainly have convictions for drug-related offences and prostitution.
Gay rights groups in Italy welcomed the move to convert an almost empty medium security women’s prison into a specially equipped...
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Pope says gay marriage threat to creation.
Pope Benedict on Tuesday linked the Church’s opposition to gay marriage to concern about the environment, suggesting that laws undermining “the differences between the sexes” were threats to creation.
The pope made his comments in an address to diplomats in his yearly assessment of world events. The main theme of the address was the environment and the protection of...
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Historian: Prop 8 played on anti-gay stereotypes.
A Yale professor testifying in a case challenging California’s same-sex marriage ban said Tuesday that the 2008 campaign to pass Proposition 8 played on stereotypes historically used to portray “homosexuals as perverts who pray on young children, out to entice straight people into sick behavior.”
George Chauncey, a historian who specializes in the subject of 20th century gay...
December 2009
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Vermont. Former lesbian turned evangelical...
The biological mother of a 7-year-old Virginia girl must transfer custody of the child to her former partner, a Vermont family court judge has ruled, adding that it seemed as though the mother had “disappeared” with the girl. Lisa Miller gave birth to daughter Isabella through artificial insemination 7 years ago after she and former lover Janet Jenkins were joined in a civil union in Vermont....
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Glasgow. Policeman by day, male escort by night...
A policeman exposed as a gay prostitute three years ago has still not been sacked.
Constable Suckbir Mann, 38, offered a Sunday Mail investigator £100-an-hour, three-in-a-bed sex in August 2006.
He was immediately suspended from his post at Glasgow’s Maryhill police station but is still raking in taxpayers’ cash.
His employers, Strathclyde Police, face a £16million budget deficit...
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Interview Magazine’s 20 Most Gorgeous People (Men)...
One of the great things about magazines (and blogs) is the hauteur of lists. The last week of any year will find everyone scrambling to put together their list of significant events, people, deaths, and stories. Interview magazine, which was started in 1969 by Andy Warhol and Gerald Melanga has always been dedicated to celebrity. So it is no surprise that that the magazine doesn’t just make...
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Year of Gay China.
From the well publicised Valentine’s Day Photo Shoot in Beijing to Shanghai Pride - the first pride festival in mainland China to the opening of the first government-sponsored gay bar in Dali, Yunnan, China Daily recaps a dozen LGBT-related events in the country. The following is an extract of “Year of Gay China” from China Daily. Click on the link below to read the article in full.
As...
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Gay Games seeks contributions to fund athletes.
The international Federation of Gay Games seeks to raise an additional US$20,000 to send another 10 athletes and artists from Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, and Sri Lanka (on top of the 34 who have already secured funding) to the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany. The following is a press release issued by Federation of Gay Games on December 29, 2009:
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Is Iran on the verge of a popular explosion?
This week saw a widening of the scope of protests across the country. Hassan Beheshtpoor (not his real name) has been on the run since the summer. He is a Tehran University student whose political activism marked him out several years before this summer’s controversial presidential election triggered an ongoing campaign of opposition to the Iranian government. Beheshtpoor, 22, was arrested...
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Village People threaten lawsuit over Jamie Oliver...
Lawyer says Channel 4 failed to seek consent for trailers featuring Jamie Oliver dressed as members of the Village People.
It could make for an interesting scenario: a construction worker, a cowboy, a traffic cop, a Native American chief, a sailor, Jamie Oliver, a leather queen, some lawyers and a judge – together in court.
The Village People are threatening legal action against Channel 4...
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Eric Dane & Bradley Cooper. Gays aren't...
We’ve been keeping you updated on the star-studded movie Valentine’s Day since we first heard Bradley Cooper was playing a gay man in it. We had fun with the fantasy casting, and even though Hollywood didn’t take our advice, we weren’t complaining about them casting Grey’s Anatomy’s Eric Dane in the role of the closeted football player boyfriend.
We...
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Colin Farrell brings son James to gay brother’s...
The wedding celebrations of Colin Farrell’s gay brother were a family affair last night at Krystle nightclub on Harcourt Street in Dublin. Farrell’s brother Eamon was marking his marriage to his longtime partner, Irish artist Steven Mannion. Colin was in Dublin for the party, bringing his five-year-old son James with him.
Colin’s father, Eamon Sr., his mother Rita, and his sisters, Claudine and...
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Gay marriage in Argentina is 1st in Latin America.
Two Argentine men were joined Monday in Latin America’s first same-sex marriage, traveling to the southernmost tip of the Americas to find a welcoming spot to wed.
Gay rights activists Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre were married in Ushuaia, the capital of Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego state, exchanging rings at civil ceremony witnessed by state and federal officials.
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Malawi police arrest couple after gay wedding.
Two Malawian men were arrested and charged with public indecency, police said on Tuesday, after becoming the first gay couple to marry in the conservative southern African state where homosexuality is illegal.
Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza publicly wed in a symbolic, traditional ceremony on Saturday.
“We arrested them last night at their home and charged them with gross public...
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Senegal police probe 24 men for 'homosexual...
A group of 24 men in Senegal are under a criminal investigation for alleged “homosexual activities”, a police source said Monday in the west African country, where homosexuality remains illegal.
Officers arrested the men on December 24 at a house in the seaside resort of Saly, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Dakar, for allegedly engaging in homosexual acts and holding an...
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Brad Pitt Coming to 'Sherlock Holmes 2'.
What could make ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and all of its bare-chested detective work even sexier? How about the addition of Brad Pitt in the sequel? Yep, you heard it here first: Papa Pitt is set to reunite with Guy Ritchie once things get underway on the ‘Holmes’ sequel.
‘Sherlock’ Sequel Starring Brad Pitt After ‘Sherlock Holmes’ managed to uncover...
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Usa. Unwed heterosexual couples seek benefits.
Unwed heterosexual couples in the Foreign Service are seeking the same family benefits extended this year to homosexual couples, U.S. officials said.
In June, President Barack Obama gave homosexual spouses of federal employees the same family benefits — minus health insurance and pension — that the spouses of heterosexual federal workers receive.
In the Foreign Service, those...
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Tom Ford swaps fashion for film with ‘Single Man’.
Fashion designer Tom Ford has made a seamless transition to filmmaker with “A Single Man,” the soulful, immaculately styled story of a grieving college professor in 1960s California. The ultra-confident Ford never doubted his abilities – though he admits plenty of other people did.
”It’s funny, because everyone was so supportive,” Ford said. “And now that I’ve made the film, quite a few...
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Patriarch Kirill believes same sex relationship...
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia confirmed position of the Russian Orthodox Church regarding homosexuality. “We accept any choice a persons makes, including in the field of sexual orientation. It’s a personal choice. However, it doesn’t change our position on the phenomenon,” the Patriarch said at his meeting with General Secretary of the Council of Europe in the Cathedral of...
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Antwerp To Host 3rd Outgames In 2013.
The Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association (GLISA) have officially announced last Friday that the host city for the 2013 World Outgames will be the city of Antwerp in Belgium. Antwerp hosted the 2007 EuroGames, and eagerly campaigned for the Outgames in 2013. The city was originally chosen to be the host city by GLISA delegates last year, but a global financial crisis delayed any...
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No Big Brother for Boy George.
Boy George only won his freedom back in May this year,but now he’s hoping to be locked up again. Although this time he wants to enter the UK Celebrity Big Brother House. However, before he can be under Big Brother’s thumb, he needs permission from a High Court Judge.
The pop star, whose real name is George O’Dowd, is due to make a plea to a High Court judge in the hopes that he will be able...
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Father forced 'gay' son to sleep with prostitute.
A Rockhampton dad is accused of forcing his son to have sex with a prostitute because he feared the 14-year-old was gay.
During a family barbecue around Christmas time in 2007, the dad allegedly phoned a prostitute and arranged to meet her at a motel on Yaamba Road, North Rockhampton.
The father drove his son to the motel and paid the prostitute in $50 notes.
The prostitute took the boy...
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International: God Hates Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga is a ‘proud whore’, according to Westboro Baptist Church, and the church will be doing what they do best when the Bad Romance singer passes through town – protesting.
“We will be going to her concert with placards reading God Hates Lady Gaga to inform people that they will be going to hell too if they listen to her messages,” said church member Shirley Phelps-Roper of Gaga’s St....
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Bareback porn ban In California?
California’s AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an American gay health charity, plan to file a petition that could seen the production of bareback pornography banned in California.
Pinknews.co.uk reports that the group are pushing to amend state law which would require all adult-film stars to use condoms.
Bareback, or condomless, porn has seen a resurgence in recent years, and has become a popular...
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Robert Downey jr's 'Holmes' too gay for studio...
Robert Downey Jr.’s allusion to the fact that his ‘Sherlock Holmes’ character may have been partners with Watson both professionally and domestically has studio executives up in a tizzy. We’re on team Sherlock no matter what side he chooses! Also, whose hair does the ultra-fabulous Vanessa Williams wish she had.
Execs to Robert Downey Jr.: Not So Gay, OK? Publicists...
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Glee's Matthew Morrison: I'm not gay.
In a new profile in Elle magazine, Glee’s Matthew Morrison says that despite the fact he appears in gay magazines, is discussed on hook-up sites, and is in musical theater, he’s not gay.
Matthew Morrison gets around. So if you spy the 31-year-old former army brat in the produce aisle, refrain from ducking behind the cantaloupes while you try to remember if he was that guy you woke...
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Rwandan Justice Minister denies plans to...
A report from Kigali-based New Times and distributed by allAfrica.com quotes Minister of Justice Tharcisse Karugarama as refuting reports that the government intends to criminalize homosexuality:
“The government I serve and speak for on certain issues cannot and will not in any way criminalize homosexuality; sexual orientation is a private matter and each individual has his or her own...
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Canada. Gay MP inundated with calls of support...
Letters and phone calls of support, including one from Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, have been pouring in for an openly gay Nova Scotia MP whose Christmas card ignited controversy this week because it showed him with his partner.
“I’ve had so many positive e-mails, calls over the last few days from across the riding, across Canada and around the world,” Scott Brison...
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CNN drafts a gay porn star into their citizen...
CNN’s iReport loves their citizen journalists so much, they don’t even care if they are gay porn stars, like this one, who took time off from an adult video shoot to film this report about flooding in South Florida.
For those of you unfamiliar with the world of homosexual pornography, this nice gentleman is Collin O’Neal. Aside from being a performer, he also runs the sexy...
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Tom Cruise sued by man Who once threatened him...
The plaintiff, Michael Davis Sapir, claims Cruise, attorney Bert Fields and jailed private investigator Anthony Pellicano conspired to spy on him.
There is a long history between Cruise and Sapir. In 2001, Cruise sued Sapir for $100 million after Sapir claimed to have video evidence that Cruise “engaged in a homosexual relationship.” That lawsuit settled later that year. In...
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Mexico City 1st in region to approve gay marriage.
Mexico City lawmakers have become the first in Latin America to legalize gay marriage.
City legislators passed the bill 39-20 on Monday with five lawmakers absent.
Gay marriage is currently allowed in only seven countries and some parts of the United States.
Leftist Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard is widely expected to sign the decision into law.
The bill calls for changing the definition...
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Los Aangeles police investigate death of Brittany...
Los Angeles police have opened an investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of actress Brittany Murphy.
Police have been dispatched to Cedars-Sinai and to the Los Angeles home where Murphy, 32, went into cardiac arrest earlier today. Police sources emphasized that their inquiry was preliminary, adding they could not say whether it would point to any criminal conduct. [Note: An...
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Singer Jonas marries at New York chateau.
Kevin Jonas of the Jonas Brothers married his girlfriend, Danielle Deleasa, at a chateau in Long Island, N.Y., the couple confirmed.
Jonas, 22, and Deleasa, 23, were married at Oheka Castle on Saturday night with nearly 400 friends and family members in attendance, People.com reported.
“We’re so happy that we’re finally married and we were able to share the special moment...
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Village People opposing TV promotion.
A lawyer for the Village People said a British TV network is facing a legal battle for a TV promotion featuring the music group’s trademarked costumes.
Attorney John Giacobbi, who is representing the “YMCA” group, said the legal battle is based on a promotion featuring British chef Jamie Oliver dressed as a construction worker, a cowboy, a traffic cop, a Native American, a...
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LGBT advocacy group in Mongolia gets official...
A LGBT organisation in Mongolia has finally succeeded in having its application to be officially recognised accepted by the government after at least ten attempts.
The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission reported on Dec 16, 2009:
After three years of effort and at least ten attempts in 2009, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) human rights organization, the...
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Hong Kong’s domestic violence law to cover gay...
Hong Kong’s Legislative Council on Wednesday passed an amendment to the domestic violence law to extend its provisions to same-sex couples.
From January 1, same-sex couples in Hong Kong will be covered under the territory’s domestic violence law after a year-long debate. The government first submitted a proposal in August 2008 to extend the scope of the law to cover to former spouses or...
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BBC boss: Sorry for online debate on killing gays.
A senior BBC executive apologized Thursday for hosting an online debate over whether gays should face capital punishment in Uganda.
The broadcaster drew criticism from some lawmakers and users for the discussion forum, which ran under the headline: “Should homosexuals face execution?”
BBC’s “Africa Have Your Say” Web site asked for people’s views on a proposed Ugandan law that would punish...
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Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law play gay in...
Queerstalker. Sherlock Holmes gay shock in new movie.
IT’S shockingly eleMENtary, my queer Watson.
Super sleuth Sherlock Holmes is to be portrayed in a GAY way in Guy Ritchie’s new flick.
The fictional him-vestigator is seen SHARING A BED with his dear, dear, Dr Watson and also enjoying some man-to-man wrestling with his close chum.
Speaking about the film, in which he plays...
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Politics predictions for 2010. Obama does nada on...
Patience became the 2009 mantra of the gay rights movement, which generally supports Democrats. Many activists believe that in his heart Obama supports their flagship issues: the ability to serve openly in the armed forces, to be protected from employment in the workplace, and the right to marry (even though he’s on record as favoring civil unions over marriage). But they’ve received almost...
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British Lions rugby legend Gareth Thomas: 'It's...
Gareth Thomas is a sporting legend. He captained Wales in 2005 to their first Grand Slam victory since 1978. The same year he captained the British Lions tour of New Zealand.
With 100 caps to his name - more than any other player in Welsh history - he has one of the fiercest reputations on the field, and a row of missing front teeth to prove it.
At 6ft 3in and 16st of pure muscle, his...
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Usa. DC City Council votes to legalize gay...
After suffering setbacks from California to New York, Maine to New Jersey, same-sex marriage supporters got a victory Tuesday with the City Council’s vote to legalize gay marriage in the District of Columbia.
Gay couples could begin tying the knot in the district as early as March. The only hurdles left to clear are the city’s mayor, who has promised to sign the bill, and Congress, which has...