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New York Times, Posted: 7/18/2010, 4:37 PM QUICK LOOK: Rainbow flags flying, Village People and Madonna songs pumping from the floats, drag queens waving like royalty to the crowds: some things are the same at gay pride parades... (MORE) |
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Agence France Presse (AFP), Posted: 6/26/2010, 11:03 PM QUICK LOOK: Some 200 gays and lesbians, dozens of human rights activists and many heterosexual Bulgarians marched in Sofia Saturday to promote tolerance at a Gay Pride that has been... (MORE) |
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Associated Press (AP), Posted: 6/9/2010, 5:30 PM QUICK LOOK: The director of Poland's National Museum says it is opening an exhibition on gay and lesbian love designed to provoke discussion on the place of homosexuals in this conservative... (MORE) |
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Agence France Presse (AFP), Posted: 5/8/2010, 11:11 AM QUICK LOOK: Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in Lithuania's capital Vilnius on Saturday, as homosexual rights campaigners held their first-ever rally in the... (MORE) |
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Associated Press (AP), Posted: 5/7/2010, 2:02 PM QUICK LOOK: A Lithuanian appeals court said Friday that the country's first gay pride parade can go ahead as planned, overturning a ban imposed by a lower court that had warned of... (MORE) |
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Novinite (Bulgaria), Posted: 3/22/2010, 12:43 PM QUICK LOOK: Six men were arrested in Bulgaria after they assaulted physically a rally supporting gay rights. Six activists of the youth organization “Lesbians, Gay, Bi- and Transgender... (MORE) |
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Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 3/1/2010, 10:03 AM QUICK LOOK: Foreign minister Chris Bryant said today that the British Foreign Office was encouraging other countries in the EU to recognise civil partnerships performed in the UK... (MORE) |
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Reuters-U.K., Posted: 4/17/2009, 8:51 AM QUICK LOOK: A Polish politician has criticized his local zoo for acquiring a "gay" elephant named Ninio who prefers male companions and will probably not procreate, local media reported... (MORE) |
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Posted: 12/8/2008, 6:14 PM QUICK LOOK: Preparing for her new role as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving to surround herself with a cast of die-hard loyalists and veterans of her husband’s... (MORE) |
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Wales Online, Posted: 9/20/2008, 10:10 PM QUICK LOOK: A gay artist living in Cardiff has spoken of his fear that he will be murdered in a so-called honour killing if he is sent home to Azerbaijan. Babakhan ‘Babi’ Badalov,... (MORE) |
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Nine O'Clock (Romania), Posted: 9/10/2008, 1:56 PM QUICK LOOK: A new Gallup poll shows that the Romanians’ perception towards discrimination has not improved after Romania’s accession to the European Union. More than half of the... (MORE) |
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Khaleej Times (UAE), Posted: 9/6/2008, 10:38 AM QUICK LOOK: The Dubai Court of Appeal has upheld one-month jail sentence for a lesbian couple for committing an indecent act in public. They will be deported after serving their jail terms. The women include... (MORE) |
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Bay Area Reporter (S.F.), Posted: 9/5/2008, 1:10 PM QUICK LOOK: Michael Guest, formerly the United States ambassador to Romania, is helping to launch a new group that will push America's government to support LGBT rights on the world... (MORE) |
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Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 8/20/2008, 5:58 PM QUICK LOOK: Two mayors of Lithuanian cities have refused to allow an EU anti-discrimination truck on their municipal territories this year. In a compromise, the touring vehicle,... (MORE) |
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Gay Wired, Posted: 7/5/2008, 5:58 AM QUICK LOOK: There is widespread concern among the gay community in Belarus following an increased number of homophobic attacks over the past month. Among the victims was Edward Tarletski,... (MORE) |
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Reuters-U.K., Posted: 6/28/2008, 3:06 PM QUICK LOOK: Bulgarian riot police detained about 60 far-right extremists today who threw a petrol bomb and tried to break up the country's first gay parade. Some 100 gay activists... (MORE) |
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Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 6/3/2008, 5:02 PM QUICK LOOK: Yesterday afternoon the Union flag was replaced with the international symbol of the LGBT community at the embassy in the Latvian capital. The British Ambassador, Richard... (MORE) |
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Reuters-U.K., Posted: 6/2/2008, 2:44 PM QUICK LOOK: About 400 gay men and women and their supporters held a parade in the Latvian capital on Saturday, accompanied by a strong police presence and chants and insults from... (MORE) |
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Der Spiegel, Posted: 5/30/2008, 5:11 AM QUICK LOOK: A member of Poland's ruling Civic Platform may soon be temporarily suspended from his party's parliamentary group because of critical comments he made about the controversial... (MORE) |
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SameSame (Aussie), Posted: 5/13/2008, 10:08 AM QUICK LOOK: Sixty gay pride parade participants were trapped inside a bus in Chisinau, Moldova yesterday. Their vehicle was attacked by hundreds of people from extremist religious... (MORE) |
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Denver Post, Posted: 4/22/2008, 11:57 PM QUICK LOOK: Jeremiah Johnson joined the Peace Corps seeking to help people, but he was forced to quit after serving nearly 1½ years because he is HIV positive. Now, Johnson, 25 and... (MORE) |
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365gay.com, Posted: 4/3/2008, 1:47 AM QUICK LOOK: Poland's upper house has approved the European Union's proposed charter of rights, but with a provision that could allow the country to ignore EU guarantees of equal rights for gays and lesbians... (MORE) |
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Queens Courier (N.Y.), Posted: 3/31/2008, 9:47 AM QUICK LOOK: It was first shown on St. Patrick’s Day and later that day Astoria resident Brendan Fay got a strange call from a Polish radio program. The native of Ireland later learned... (MORE) |
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Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 3/26/2008, 10:22 PM QUICK LOOK: An opinion poll in Poland has found strong backing for a new EU treaty criticised by the country's homophobic President in an address to the nation last week. The survey... (MORE) |
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Agence France Presse (AFP), Posted: 3/19/2008, 9:36 AM QUICK LOOK: A gay man from the United States yesterday voiced outrage against Poland's President Lech Kaczynski for publicly using a video of his marriage to bash the EU's proposed... (MORE) |
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