Bangkok: China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. In Egypt's conservative, Muslim-dominated society, laws prohibiting "shameless public acts" have been used to imprison gay men in recent years. Even some gay rights activists in the Philippines are opposed to same-sex marriage. And in Malaysia, the government has twice prosecuted a prominent opposition leader on charges of sodomy, which is punishable by 20 years in prison. While gay-rights activists...
04:37 PM, May 10, 2012
Washington: A woman in the US state of Indiana sent her gay son to school with a stun-gun to counter students bullying him. Chelisa Grimes did it after administrators apparently didn't do enough to stop the bullying against her son. The mother says she will do it again - even though the teen now faces expulsion, CNN reported on Monday. "I do not promote violence - not at all -...
09:24 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: We all heard of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee making it to the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Another Indian to make it to the coveted list is advocate and gender rights activist Anjali Gopalan. Gopalan, 54, is the founder and Executive Director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in...
06:54 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: After a marathon hearing spanning over a month, the Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a bunch of petitions challenging the Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising gay sex among consenting adults in private. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya reserved its verdict on a bunch of petitions by anti-gay right activists, social and religious organisations against the 2009 verdict of the high court,...
02:23 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The SC will on Monday hear the case on legalising gay sex. The apex court had earlier rapped the Centre for changing its position on the issue. The Attorney General, however, clarified last week that the government was not opposed to gay rights or gay sex. Anti-gay law in the country is an offshoot of British colonialism and the Indian society earlier was more tolerant towards homosexuality, the...
10:34 AM, Mar 26, 2012
According to reports, the Union Home Ministry has opposed the decriminalisation of gay sex in the country. ...
01:09 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Managua, Nicaragua: Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin defended gay rights in Managua, slammed child slavery and pornography, and promised that his only concert in Nicaragua will be a 'great fiesta'. "Okay, I'm a gay man and I want my rights," he said in response to a question at a news conference in the Nicaraguan capital. "There are two or three people right now that are uncomfortable with the way I...
05:32 PM, Oct 16, 2011
London: Popular singer George Michael says his first crush was singer Debbie Harry when he was a teenager and it happened even before he realised he's gay. Michael, 48, told Debbie, 66, about his feelings when he met her at the Lovebox music festival in London, Sunday, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "She (Debbie) looked great. I told her that before I worked out I was a poof, she was my first crush......
04:02 PM, Jul 20, 2011
London: Actor Brad Pitt supports the New York state's decision to legalise same-sex marriage, and says every American should have the right to marry whoever they want. Pitt raises six children - Maddox, nine; Pax, seven; Zahara, six; Shiloh, five; and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne - with partner Angelina Jolie. "It is encouraging that New York has joined the movement to grant equal marriage rights to its citizens. But...
09:28 AM, Jul 08, 2011
Mumbai: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's comment that men having sex with men (MSM) is a "disease" and "unnatural" has upset the film fraternity. More and more actors, like Bipasha Basu and Nandita Das, are expressing their displeasure over the comments. Azad clarified his stance Tuesday saying his remarks were out of context, clarifying that while some people say it's unnatural, some say it is natural. This what the celebs...
03:05 PM, Jul 07, 2011
San Francisco: A federal appeals court has barred further enforcement of the US military's ban on openly gay service members. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said on Wednesday the "don't ask, don't tell" policy must be immediately lifted now that the Obama administration says it's unconstitutional to treat gay Americans differently under the law. The ruling was the latest legal development...
01:34 AM, Jul 07, 2011
Paris: Tens of thousands of revelers turned out on Saturday for a gay pride parade in Paris, many of them hailing the legalization of gay marriage in New York and demanding that France follow suit. Marchers, dressed in drag, brassieres or striped sailor outfits, paraded under a sea of rainbow-colored flags and jigged to thumping techno beats on slow-moving truck beds that became moveable dance floors. Elsewhere in Europe, however,...
10:59 AM, Jun 26, 2011
New York: The US President Barack Obama on Thursday touted his efforts to advance gay rights and promised further progress, but stopped short of declaring his support for legalizing same-sex marriage. Obama received an enthusiastic reception from gay, lesbian and bisexual supporters at a New York fundraiser, but a few dozen gay rights protesters outside the hotel and a handful of hecklers inside the ballroom where he spoke served as...
12:49 AM, Jun 25, 2011
A special report on a gay couple, Richard Dorr and John Mace, who have been together for over 6 decades and are waiting for New York to legalise gay marriages. ...
10:34 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Kathmandu: Still portrayed as buffoons, aliens and despicable people by their own silver screen story-tellers, Nepal's burgeoning gay community is now hoping Bollywood's path-breaking films like I Am and My Brother Nikhil will give Nepali filmmakers the right perspective one day. Bollywood film director Anirban Dhar, whose I Am, starring Nepal's Manisha Koirala and Bollywood's Rahul Bose, Juhi Chawla, Nandita Das and Sanjay Suri, released in India last month, is...
02:00 PM, May 31, 2011
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