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The national US celebration of Coming Out Day on October 11 has been cancelled as the gay community has been urged to mark the one-month anniversary of the US terrorist attacks.

Defence attorneys of the 52 Egyptian men accused of practicing gay sex told the court that the whole case was made up by the police.

An UN report warns that some Asian countries are on the brink of potentially explosive epidemics and the region will probably overtake Africa as the most heavily affected area of the world unless firm action is taken quickly.

Police have been ordered to close down Internet cafes frequented by gays as well as threatening to jail women who behave in an 'un-Islamic' manner, ie show their hair, wear make-up.

Philippine gay rights groups are asking Congress to consider three bills that would provide anti-discrimination protections as well as to protest a fourth bill that would deny marriage rights to transgender people.

A South African court has ordered changes to the law to allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt children while in Nigeria, an Islamic court has sentenced a man to death by stoning.

Gays and lesbians in Finland can now register as couples and obtain some but not all the rights accorded to married heterosexual couples.

Canadian researchers have shown that an experimental heat-activated microbicide gel can act as a physical barrier to HIV and herpes infection.

Marilyn Manson has been charged with assaulting a male security guard by allegedly rubbing his genital area on the man's head during a concert in Michigan.

According to Soulforce, an advocacy group that protests against anti-gay religious teaching, the controversial anti-gay comments made by Rev Jerry Falwell may just advance the gay cause.