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HIV tests advised for World Cup fans returning home
BBC, Posted: 7/19/2010, 1:46 PM
QUICK LOOK: Doctors are advising football fans who went to the World Cup in South Africa to check their HIV status if they had unprotected sex on their trip. Up to 25,000 England... (MORE)
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Cash payment for safe sex said to reduce HIV spread
Agence France Presse (AFP), Posted: 7/19/2010, 9:41 AM
QUICK LOOK: The World Bank released two studies Sunday linking cash payments to Malawian and Tanzanian youths with "significantly lower" rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted... (MORE)

Rare kidney transplant success between HIV patients
Salem Statesman Journal (Ore.), Posted: 6/28/2010, 6:32 AM
QUICK LOOK: The first four of the transplants, which occurred in 2008, were described in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Five more have been done since then... (MORE)

Why so much homosex in Argentina's World Cup bid?
Blabbeando, Posted: 6/20/2010, 3:30 PM
QUICK LOOK: WATCH: What's up with the Argentina soccer world cup team and their latest obsession with homosex? The latest: Back in May, before the tournament began, team coach and... (MORE)
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Malawi gay couple separate over a woman: report
The Guardian (U.K.), Posted: 6/8/2010, 5:39 PM
QUICK LOOK: They became an international cause celebre after being sentenced to 14 years in prison under Malawi's draconian laws against homosexuality. But today the story of Steven... (MORE)
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One half of Malawi gay couple missing since pardon
The Examiner, Posted: 6/2/2010, 3:56 PM
QUICK LOOK: One-half of the Malawian couple who were imprisoned for marrying and then pardoned last week by President Bingu wa Mutharika is missing, according to the Zambia Watchdog... (MORE)
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Malawi frees gay couple after pardon from president
The Guardian (U.K.), Posted: 6/1/2010, 5:05 PM
QUICK LOOK: A gay couple sentenced to serve 14 years in jail in Malawi have been pardoned after their country's president met Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general. Steven Monjeza,... (MORE)
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S. African president condemns arrest of Malawi gays
Bloomberg News Service, Posted: 5/28/2010, 6:00 AM
QUICK LOOK: South African President Jacob Zuma condemned the arrest and imprisonment of homosexuals in Malawi, saying his government has raised the issue with the East African nation... (MORE)
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Gay rights in developing countries: well-locked closet
The Economist, Posted: 5/27/2010, 8:25 PM
QUICK LOOK: Their crimes were “gross indecency” and “unnatural acts”. Their sentence was 14 years’ hard labour: one intended, said the judge, to scare others. He has succeeded. A... (MORE)
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Madonna rips Malawi judge for sentencing gay couple
New York Daily News, Posted: 5/21/2010, 1:04 PM
QUICK LOOK: An outraged Madonna ripped a Malawi judge for sentencing an engaged gay couple couple to 14 years of hard labor - based strictly on their sexual orientation. "I am shocked... (MORE)
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Malawi gay couple gets max 14-year prison sentence
BBC, Posted: 5/20/2010, 3:34 PM
QUICK LOOK: A judge in Malawi has imposed a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison with hard labour on a gay couple convicted of gross indecency and unnatural acts. The judge said... (MORE)
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Gay couple convicted in Malawi over wedding plan
New York Times, Posted: 5/18/2010, 9:45 PM
QUICK LOOK: A gay couple in Malawi were found guilty on Tuesday of unnatural acts and gross indecency, the consequence of their holding an engagement ceremony in an insular nation... (MORE)
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Even after death, African anti-gay violence continues
Associated Press (AP), Posted: 4/13/2010, 6:11 AM
QUICK LOOK: Even death cannot stop the violence against gays in this corner of the world any more. Madieye Diallo's body had only been in the ground for a few hours when the mob... (MORE)

Lawyer for Malawi gay couple plans for wedding trial
Voice of America, Posted: 3/24/2010, 10:59 AM
QUICK LOOK: Lawyers for the Malawi gay couple jailed since December last year for holding a gay engagement ceremony said they are studying the evidence against their clients to prepare... (MORE)

Malawi gay couples faces trial for engagement party
BBC, Posted: 3/23/2010, 12:47 PM
QUICK LOOK: A judge in Malawi says that two gay men arrested in December after getting engaged have a case to answer. A lawyer said the couple would now call defence witnesses. Tiwonge... (MORE)

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New HIV infections are on increase among gay men
Associated Press (AP), Posted: 3/18/2010, 10:47 PM
QUICK LOOK: New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don't seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the... (MORE)

Meet the world's four newest gay rights battlegrounds
Foreign Policy Magazine, Posted: 3/9/2010, 7:53 PM
QUICK LOOK: The struggle for gay rights in the United States has been going on now for decades. In other parts of the world, however, the fight is in much earlier stages. Here are... (MORE)

300 students expelled as 'lesbians' returned to class
Times Live (South Africa), Posted: 3/8/2010, 5:21 AM
QUICK LOOK: The Commission for Gender Equality has slammed the suspension of 300 girls at a KwaZulu-Natal high school by staff who claimed that the girls are lesbians. This follows... (MORE)
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South African official slams lesbian photos as 'porn'
Times Live (South Africa), Posted: 3/4/2010, 6:47 PM
QUICK LOOK: The opening of an exhibition by young, black women artists at Constitution Hill turned sour when Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana stormed out of the exhibition,... (MORE)
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Lesbians in South Africa are being rape to be 'cured'
AlterNet, Posted: 3/4/2010, 2:03 PM
QUICK LOOK: A new report indicates a shocking rise in homophobic attacks and murders in South Africa, especially in Johannesburg and Cape Town, where lesbians are being raped as... (MORE)





South African man wins 2010 Mr. Gay World pageant
Agence France Presse (AFP), Posted: 2/14/2010, 6:50 PM
QUICK LOOK: A South African man has won the 2010 Mr Gay World pageant, beating rivals from Australia, Hong Kong, China and Spain, the organisers said on Sunday. Charl Van den Berg,... (MORE)
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Malawi arrests man for public displaying 'gay posters'
BBC, Posted: 2/3/2010, 7:43 PM
QUICK LOOK: Malawian police have arrested a man for putting up gay-rights posters, amid a national debate over homosexuality - which is banned in Malawi. Peter Sawali had put up... (MORE)

Gays are used as scapegoats by flawed governments
New Zealand Herald, Posted: 1/10/2010, 10:25 AM
QUICK LOOK: A whispering campaign is under way in Uganda's capital, Kampala, accusing Paul Semugoma, a doctor, of being a predatory homosexual, actively recruiting younger men into... (MORE)
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Amnesty joins call for Malawi to release gay couple
Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 1/6/2010, 11:57 AM
QUICK LOOK: Human rights organisation Amnesty International has joined the calls for a gay couple in Malawi to be released from prison. The group said that Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge... (MORE)

Two gay weddings, two continents, one happy ending
The Guardian (U.K.), Posted: 12/30/2009, 11:17 AM
QUICK LOOK: It was a tale of two weddings continents apart, but there was to be only one happy ending. In Argentina, Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre made history as the first... (MORE)


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