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Financial Times (U.K.), Posted: 8/26/2010, 10:48 AM QUICK LOOK: Nepal’s gay community has added some extra colour to the traditional festival of Gaijatra this year, in a carnival of humour, satire, fanfare and fun. On Wednesday, hundreds... (MORE) |
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Times of India, Posted: 8/19/2010, 9:10 AM QUICK LOOK: They met in Mumbai, fell in love and sought to marry. However, there were several obstacles in the way. The 42-year-old, a social worker of Indian origin from the UK,... (MORE) |
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Associated Press (AP), Posted: 3/14/2010, 11:09 PM QUICK LOOK: Nepal wants to paint Mount Everest pink. It wants gay honeymooners trekking through the Himalayas. It wants to host the world's highest same-sex wedding at Everest base... (MORE) |
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Telegraph.co.uk, Posted: 1/29/2010, 3:25 PM QUICK LOOK: Nepal's homosexual community, which is led by Asia's only openly gay member of parliament, will next month host a tourism conference to explore how to attract wealthy... (MORE) |
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Posted: 2/15/2009, 9:33 AM QUICK LOOK: Those used to associating Valentine’s Day with red roses and red hearts had to do some readjusting Saturday when the heart of Kathmandu turned pink to celebrate a day... (MORE) |
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Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 11/17/2008, 12:18 PM QUICK LOOK: A Nepali MP has said his "eyes were filled with tears" when he read the full written decision of the country's Supreme Court on a writ petition from four organizations representing ... (MORE) |
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New York Times, Posted: 9/23/2008, 5:01 PM QUICK LOOK: Sunil Babu Pant likes to take advantage of the frequent delays at Nepal’s newly elected Constituent Assembly. As the only openly gay member, he takes every opportunity... (MORE) |
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Sydney Morning Herald, Posted: 9/8/2008, 11:55 AM QUICK LOOK: Australian immigration officials are investigating claims that a Sydney migration agent hired a gay sex worker in a bizarre bid to gain political asylum for his clients... (MORE) |
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Associated Press (AP), Posted: 9/3/2008, 8:41 PM QUICK LOOK: A Cambodian transgender woman filed a complaint Wednesday with the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal alleging that she suffered repeated sexual abuse at the hands of the... (MORE) |
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Los Angeles Times, Posted: 5/2/2008, 4:35 PM QUICK LOOK: In less than a decade, Sunil Pant's Blue Diamond Society has scaled massive heights in a nation known mostly as the home of Mt. Everest. Despite deep-seated social conservatism,... (MORE) |
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Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 3/19/2008, 3:47 PM QUICK LOOK: Legendary science fiction author Sir Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90 at his home in Sri Lanka. Clarke, who wrote more than 100 books during his lifetime, died... (MORE) |
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News.com.au, Posted: 2/26/2008, 11:00 AM QUICK LOOK: At least five Nepali gay men are contesting this year's elections in the hope of shattering taboos in the conservative nation, a gay candidate said. Homosexuality is... (MORE) |
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Hindustan Times (India), Posted: 12/25/2007, 10:52 AM QUICK LOOK: Nepal's gay community has emerged as the only winners of the year that saw the country suffering from a series of dismal failures. The most remarkable gain for the homosexual,... (MORE) |
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Associated Press (AP), Posted: 12/21/2007, 11:23 AM QUICK LOOK: In a landmark verdict aimed at legitimizing homosexuality, Nepal's top court ruled yesterday that the government must create new laws to protect gay rights and change current ones that might be tantamount... (MORE) |
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People's Daily (China), Posted: 10/30/2007, 9:47 AM QUICK LOOK: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said today that he will file a complaint to court to abandon his adopted daughter because she left home and married a girl. "I educated... (MORE) |
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Reuters-U.S., Posted: 8/7/2007, 3:35 PM QUICK LOOK: Two women soldiers lost their jobs in the Nepal army because they were thought to be lesbians, in the first known case of its kind. The soldiers were fired in mid-July after a ... (MORE) |
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Agence France Presse (AFP), Posted: 8/5/2007, 7:32 PM QUICK LOOK: Nu Nu Yi, an author from Myanmar, has earned international attention for her novel about a gay spirit medium. Like many writers in this military-ruled nation, the 50-year-old... (MORE) |
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Hindustan Times (India), Posted: 7/24/2007, 11:20 AM QUICK LOOK: British singer Sir Elton John has taken up cudgels on behalf of Nepal's sexual minorities, who were recently told by a government official that instead of trying to educate... (MORE) |
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News Post India, Posted: 7/15/2007, 5:20 PM QUICK LOOK: On the day Nepal MPs and rights activists were to interact with the gay community and discuss the inclusion of their rights in a new constitution, the police assaulted and stripped five young men... (MORE) |
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New America Media, Posted: 6/24/2007, 2:34 PM QUICK LOOK: *Audio report*: While LGBT Pride parades march down the main street of many U.S. cities, in Nepal the country’s only LGBT group struggles to have its voice heard. But Sunil ... (MORE) |
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Gay.com UK, Posted: 4/19/2007, 9:23 AM QUICK LOOK: The Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s growing LGBT civil rights group, has been awarded with an esteemed international award from the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Blue... (MORE) |
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RxPG News, Posted: 4/14/2007, 10:56 PM QUICK LOOK: Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh says he would like to make a film on homosexuality because it is 'less' challenging. "I'd like to do a film on a gay relationship. For me it's easier ... (MORE) |
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U.K. Gay News, Posted: 4/12/2007, 3:30 PM QUICK LOOK: Sri Lanka still criminalizes homosexuality, but the does not deter local gays from staging an annual Gay Pride event. Next month sees the third Colombo Pride, a week-long celebration with events ranging... (MORE) |
IBN Live, Posted: 2/14/2007, 3:19 PM QUICK LOOK: A Nepali man who wears women's clothes and behaves as a female became the first citizen of the conservative Himalayan nation to be recognised as transgender in a move hailed as 'significant' on Feb... (MORE) |
