Said to be the largest gay rights rally in the US capital in the last decade, it was attended by activists and celebrities including Gilbert Baker who created the gay rainbow flag in 1978, Sex and the City star and out lesbian Cynthia Nixon, Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black, Lt. Dan Choi and Lady Gaga.
Stephen Gately, of the hugely successful pop group Boyzone, who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation with his partner in Spain.
The Aceh provincial government says it will not sign the controversial bylaw; Indonesia's Home Minister Mardiyanto: The new bylaw would be “detrimental” to the Acehnese and would “frighten” visitors and investors.
Patrons of the bar say they were made - some by physical force - to lay face down on the bar's filthy floors for up to two hours while police officers made anti-gay slurs.
The Singaporean doctor was commended in Britain yesterday for his longstanding contributions towards public health and health promotion within the Commonwealth.
Reinforcing its already strict Islamic ordinances, Aceh's draconian new laws will allow adulterers to be stoned to death while homosexuals will face public lashings and jail.
British PM Gordon Brown says: “We’re sorry, you deserved so much better” in a posthumous apology to Alan Turing who was gay, and after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 he was offered chemical castration or a prison sentence.
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