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The Guardian (U.K.), Posted: 8/10/2010, 2:06 PM QUICK LOOK: An 18-year-old Iranian is facing imminent execution on charges of homosexuality, even though he has no legal representation. Ebrahim Hamidi, who is not gay, was sentenced... (MORE) |
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New York Times, Posted: 8/9/2010, 12:24 PM QUICK LOOK: He spent part of his childhood with his father in the arid plains of central Oklahoma, where classmates made fun of him for being a geek. He spent another part with his... (MORE) |
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The Guardian (U.K.), Posted: 8/9/2010, 10:35 AM QUICK LOOK: If you think the Christian world has a problem with gay people, you should try orthodox Judaism. For centuries homosexuality has been taboo; it's not what nice Jewish... (MORE) |
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Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 8/4/2010, 7:42 AM QUICK LOOK: An 18-year-old Iranian man is facing execution over a false sodomy charge, campaigners say. Ebrahim Hamidi was sentenced to death two years ago at the age of 16 for an... (MORE) |
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Stars and Stripes, Posted: 7/30/2010, 5:47 PM QUICK LOOK: Officials at the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network are demanding the Secretary of the Navy step in before a senior enlisted sailor dubbed the ringleader of the hazing... (MORE) |
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Ha'aretz, Posted: 7/30/2010, 12:35 AM QUICK LOOK: A gay rights group is suing a local website for NIS 100,000 for publishing an article calling for the indictment of the leaders of a "deviant" center for gay youth rather... (MORE) |
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The Examiner, Posted: 6/22/2010, 7:57 AM QUICK LOOK: One bisexual man was tortured to death in prison and another was lashed 74 times and faces the death penalty in the Court of Sari in Iran, according to reports from the... (MORE) |
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The Guardian (U.K.), Posted: 6/10/2010, 6:07 AM QUICK LOOK: A delegation of gay residents of Tel Aviv has been banned from joining a gay pride march in Madrid because authorities in the Israeli city have not condemned the recent... (MORE) |
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Reuters-U.S., Posted: 6/8/2010, 9:03 AM QUICK LOOK: A United Nations committee that decides which nongovernmental organizations can be accredited to the world body moved on Thursday to keep out the International Gay and... (MORE) |
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GMA News, Posted: 6/8/2010, 7:49 AM QUICK LOOK: For nine years, Ramil Autentico had to watch his moves as an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. That was because as a homosexual, Ramil knew... (MORE) |
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Washington Post, Posted: 5/27/2010, 10:23 AM QUICK LOOK: During planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the CIA's Iraq Operations Group kicked around a number of ideas for discrediting Saddam Hussein in the eyes of his people... (MORE) |
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New York Daily News, Posted: 5/26/2010, 1:34 PM QUICK LOOK: WATCH: The Army is investigating a soldier who posted a video on Facebook taunting Iraqi children, asking if they're gay and if they're going to "grow up to be a terrorist."... (MORE) |
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Detroit News, Posted: 5/20/2010, 5:40 PM QUICK LOOK: Mohammad Abdollahi was putting his life on the line when he lobbied for immigration reform in Arizona this week, experts say. The undocumented Ann Arbor resident, along... (MORE) |
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Monsters & Critics (U.K.), Posted: 5/7/2010, 3:51 PM QUICK LOOK: Egypt's musician's union on Sunday rejected plans for British singer Elton John to perform a private concert scheduled for May 18, because of his 'controversial remarks... (MORE) |
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Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 4/22/2010, 7:41 AM QUICK LOOK: An openly-gay actress from Iran is campaigning against the Home Office's decision to refuse her asylum, this week, because she will face execution in her homeland. Kiana... (MORE) |
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Queerty, Posted: 4/6/2010, 9:51 AM QUICK LOOK: Christopher Rice, the mystery writer who intertwines gay seduction into each of his plots, tomorrow releases The Moonlit Earth (though it's apparently already available... (MORE) |
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Washington Post, Posted: 4/2/2010, 2:13 PM QUICK LOOK: Freedom is relative. But for Hassan, mother hen to a gaggle of gay Iranians fleeing a nation where their sexuality is punishable by death, relatively secular Turkey is... (MORE) |
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Sydney Star Observer, Posted: 3/26/2010, 11:24 AM QUICK LOOK: The UK government has refused to give priority to an application for asylum by Ali Hili, the leader of the Iraqi LGBT group, currently in exile in London. Hili’s application... (MORE) |
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Posted: 3/26/2010, 10:48 AM QUICK LOOK: Civil rights legislation that would make it illegal to discriminate against gays and lesbians in Missouri moved past an obstacle Monday that had stood in its way since... (MORE) |
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Telegraph.co.uk, Posted: 3/20/2010, 2:08 PM QUICK LOOK: The week’s most ludicrous comment comes from US Army General John Sheehan, who has blamed the Srebrenica massacre on – wait for it – the gays. Specifically, “openly homosexual”... (MORE) |
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New York Observer, Posted: 3/17/2010, 8:47 AM QUICK LOOK: During the run-up to Sept. 11, there was a previously undisclosed, covert C.I.A. effort to recruit a spy to penetrate Al Qaeda a year and a half before the planes crashed... (MORE) |
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Arab News, Posted: 3/10/2010, 6:34 PM QUICK LOOK: *VIDEO after jump*: A 27-year-old man who was arrested in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on three charges, including homosexuality, was sentenced to one year in prison and 1,000 lashes and fined more than... (MORE) |
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The Register (U.K.), Posted: 3/8/2010, 9:26 AM QUICK LOOK: Microsoft's Bing search engine blocks out "sexually explicit" results and gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender queries in Arab countries, claimed the Open Net Initiative... (MORE) |
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MSNBC, Posted: 2/21/2010, 4:07 PM QUICK LOOK: *VIDEO after the jump*: Top U.S. Army General David Petraeus was asked about “don’t ask, don’t tell” on Meet the Press and spent the bulk of the time praising the year-long... (MORE) |
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McClatchy Newspapers, Posted: 2/17/2010, 1:15 AM QUICK LOOK: Navy Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was nearing the end of a 25-minute question and answer session with troops serving here when he raised... (MORE) |
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