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Gays face execution in Saudi Arabia

Two executed in Saudi Arabia for male rape

Two Saudi men were publicly beheaded on December 26th after being found guilty of rape. The official SPA news agency said Nasser al-Harby and Majid al-Sibeiy had gone into the bedroom where the unnamed victim slept.

Edwin Cameron has been appointed to the Constitutional Court

HIV+ judge appointed to South Africa's highest court

An openly gay man living with HIV has been appointed to the Constitutional Court of South Africa by the country's President.

The Home Secretary has launched a consultation

Conservatives and Labour ignore gay victims of domestic abuse claims charity

A new Tory party plan to spend an extra £2.6m on help for women experiencing domestic violence has been attacked by a gay charity.

Mrs Pillay is the UN human rights commissioner

Laws against gay sex are "like apartheid" says UN human rights chief

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the continued criminalisation of homosexual sex across the world.

Fred Hochberg has been suggested for the Cabinet

Richardson withdrawal raises hopes of gay nominee for Obama's top team

An American organisation that promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in government has suggested that President-elect Obama nominate a gay man as Commerce Secretary.

Bill Richardson has withdrwawn from a Cabinet nomination

Blow for Obama as Commerce Secretary nominee withdraws

The Governor of New Mexico has told the US President-elect Barack Obama that he wishes to withdraw his name from nomination for the position of Commerce Secretary.

When Mr Cains died 10 years ago, Mr Young applied for a pension

Man becomes Australia's first recognised gay war widow after 10 year struggle

Sydney pensioner Edward Young has won a decade-long legal battle to receive his deceased partner's pension.

Adams, 45, won the vote with a 58% majority in spring 2008

Portland becomes largest US city to have gay mayor

The US city of Portland, Oregon, swore in its openly gay mayor Sam Adams on New Year's Day.

31 year old Humberto Hernandez Salvador was arrested on Wednesday at his home in Richmond

Four arrested after lesbian attacked and raped

Four males have been arrested in Richmond, California, during investigations over the alleged gang rape of a lesbian.

Darriel Wilson's friends have created a Facebook group page in honour of him, where members have posted messages, poems and commemorative images

Three black gay men gunned down in New Orleans

New Orleans police are searching for the killers of three black gay men after they were found dead at their home on December 18th.

All Italian laws will be subject to scrutiny by Vatican authorities before being implemented

Vatican breaks with Italian law after refusing to sign UN sexuality declaration

A new statute coming into effect on January 1st will allow the Vatican to bypass Italian law.

This comes in the wake of a row at the UN, where the Vatican refused to sign up to a universal declaration of human rights regardless of gender or sexuality.

Black gay or bisexual men are statistically more likely to be diagnosed late with prostate cancer

Gay and bisexual black men have lowest rate of prostate testing, research finds

A new study published in the December issue of Medical Care claims that African-American gay and bisexual men are the least likely to be tested for prostate cancer than any other men.

The shooting allegedly took place after the deceased asked McInerney to be his valentine

Lawrence King murder suspect denied access to files

14 year old murder suspect Brandon McInerney's lawyers requested that a judge allow them access to files demonstrating how prosecutors decide to try under-18s as adults in court.

McInerney stands accused of shooting classmate Lawrence King in February, who was reportedly openly gay and sometimes wore 'feminine' clothing to school, at a junior high school in Oxnard, California.

The appeal claims there has been no assessment of whether Ms Chandler's relationship could harm her children

Mother fights against ban on sleeping with lesbian partner

Divorcee and mother of two Angel Chandler has approached the Tennessee Court of Appeals to allow her to have her female partner stay overnight.

Ms Chandler, who has been with her partner for almost a decade, is appealing against a child custody restriction known as a paramour clause, in which she is not permitted to have her lover stay overnight if her children are present.

This inquiry would not report its findings until after the next federal election in 2011

Australian equality act inquiry could be delayed until 2011

An Australian Senate committee has recommended an inquiry into the need for an equality act banning homophobic or transphobic discrimination, following complaints to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC).

The AHRC is currently unable to protect the LGBT community fully as federal protections do not cover homophobia in the media or commercial services as other forms of discrimination are.

















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