Passed by the provincial legislature in October 2009, the bylaw – which the Governor has refused to sign and officials in Jakarta have asked to be withdrawn – would punish homosexuals with 100 cane lashes.
Director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival says he intends to stage a ''public disobedience freedom of speech event'' by screening LA Zombie in defiance of the federal censor.
Costa Rica's top court on Tuesday ruled that a planned public referendum on same-sex civil unions is illegal thus blocking the electoral tribunal from holding a referendum that would have let voters decide if same-sex civil unions should be allowed in the largely Roman Catholic country.
A federal judge in San Francisco decided on Wednesday that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, striking down Proposition 8, the voter-approved ballot measure that banned same-sex unions in 2008.
'Traitor', 'hypocrite', 'married to the mob'. Openly lesbian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong came under fire from the gay community and commentators in the media after towing the Labor line that only men and women should be allowed to marry.
Staged in Singapore last August, Leona Lo's Ah Kua Show will make its debut outside her home country at the New York International Fringe Festival this month.
The LGBT festival will coincide with Gai Jatra, an age-old festival which commemorates those who have died in the past year and where participants dress up in outlandish costumes during a street possession.
Singapore's sixth gay pride season announces it's line-up, with the mainstay Pink Picnic at the Botanical Gardens coinciding with the country's National Day on Aug 9.
The Australian Film Classification Board has refuse to classify the “soft-core” version of a 'gay zombie' film which was slated to screen twice next week at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Wednesday convened a ceremony at the Casa Rosada government house in downtown Buenos Aires to formally sign into law a bill making Argentina the first country in Latin America to legalise marriage for same-sex couples.
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