While figures show a sharp decline in HIV diagnoses for heterosexual New Zealanders in 2010, it could well "be the worst year on record for our gay men's communities" says the New Zealand AIDS Foundation.
Germans in the 19th century "invented" the modern gay rights movement and modern conceptions of homosexuality can be traced to an anti-sodomy law, a Maryland historian argues.
The gay community in India has organised a multi-city protest to demand that the TV station refrain from further "negative and homophobic portrayals of the queer and other marginalised communities", and air a public apology to the the persons involved and the LGBT community at large.
Political parties in Singapore for the first time respond to a joint letter sent by seven members of the LGBT community in Singapore requesting a clarification of their position on selected issues of interest to LGBT Singaporeans.
The gay community has expressed their outrage after a TV channel in Hyderabad, India carried a nearly 7-minute long news story that outed close to a dozen men who had their photographs and personal details on a gay personals website.
The Obama administration says a federal law that bans recognition of same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and has directed the Justice Department not to defend the law anymore in court cases across the country.
Galeforce Capital to launch first ever global competition to support and promote excellence and innovation in LGBT social enterprise. LGBT Capital and Galeforce Capital announce alliance to offer investors unique LGBT Impact Investing opportunity.
According to leaked U.S. embassy cables, David Kato, the murdered Ugandan gay activist, was ridiculed by a member of the Ugandan Human Rights Commission during his speech at a UN-funded “consultative meeting” in December 2009, to discuss MP David Bahati's Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The cables also reveal US diplomatic attempts to thwart passage of the bill.
Hawaii is on its way to becoming the seventh US state with a civil unions law after the bill, which grants gay and lesbian couples the same rights and benefits the state provides to married couples, was approved by lawmakers on Wednesday and is awaiting the signature of the governor.
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