New Delhi: Donning rainbow-coloured scarves and attire and gyrating to drumbeats, hundreds of people from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community created a carnival-like atmosphere on Sunday at central Delhi's business and shopping hub of Connaught Place as they marched in the fourth edition of the Delhi Queer Pride Parade. The parade that commenced from Barakambha Road and culminated at Jantar Mantar caused a major stir as passers-by...
01:20 PM, Nov 28, 2011
New York: The number of gay and bisexual characters on scripted broadcast network TV has dipped slightly this season to 19 out of nearly 650 roles, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The 16th annual 'Where We Are on TV' report released Wednesday by GLAAD found that 2.9 percent of actors appearing regularly on prime-time network drama and comedy series in the 2011-12 season will portray gay,...
12:36 PM, Sep 29, 2011
New York: New York City's event planners are gearing up for a surge in business after the Empire State embraced same-sex marriage and hundreds of couples rush to tie the knot. In New York City alone, 800 couples were married within hours after New York became the sixth U.S. state to make same-sex unions legal on July 24. "We've been getting a lot of phone calls," said Harriette Rose Katz,...
12:01 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New York: On the first day of the law authorising same-sex marriages in New York, hundreds of gay and lesbian couples officially said "I do" here Sunday. Amid numerous scenes of happiness, the different city clerk offices in New York City's five boroughs married 823 couples, both heterosexual and homosexual. Among those getting married were Rev. Carmen Hernandez - who is of Puerto Rican origin - and Doris De Armas...
12:23 PM, Jul 25, 2011
The first same sex marriage in New York has taken place and 764 others grabbed their marriage licences in a lottery. ...
10:21 AM, Jul 25, 2011
Kathmandu: The first public lesbian wedding in Nepal, held this week under the aegis of the republic's gay rights icon Sunil Babu Pant, has inspired the gay communities in India's West Bengal and Kerala to seek help to host the two states' first public gay rallies next month. Pant, who is also Nepal's only openly gay member of parliament, founded the Blue Diamond Society (BDS) in 2002 to spearhead the...
04:57 PM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: Google is marking the Gay and Lesbian Pride Month with an easter egg on its search results page. For search results for terms such as "gay", "lesbian", "transgender" and "lgbt", Google displays a rainbow, signifying the rainbow flag of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) movement at the end of the search bar. Google is known for slipping in hidden features and occasionally jokes, also known as...
08:28 AM, Jun 21, 2011
New York: Russell Simmons, Ricky Martin and the HBO drama series "True Blood" are among this year's recipients of media awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Other winners of the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards, presented Saturday in New York, include the NBC comedy "30 Rock" and CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" for its series on gay teen suicides. Music mogul Simmons received the Excellence in Media Award....
10:57 AM, Mar 21, 2011
They have asked the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that decriminalized homosexuality in 2009. ...
08:51 AM, Feb 10, 2011
They have asked the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that decriminalized homosexuality in 2009. ...
08:51 AM, Feb 10, 2011
Mexico City: A Mexican company has launched a new beer aimed at the gay and lesbian community that will also be exported to other countries, company officials said. The 'honey-flavored' beer will initially be sold in Mexico and later exported to Colombia and Japan. "We've entered the market with great respect, with the idea of offering a product aimed at the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community, which has...
10:58 AM, Feb 03, 2011
Geneva: Gays and lesbians need more support to protect their rights, even if homosexuality raises cultural issues in some parts of the world, the UN chief said. "We must reject persecution of people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity," said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. "Cultural practice cannot justify any violation of human rights," Ban insisted, addressing the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. He said women were often treated...
04:33 PM, Jan 26, 2011
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