GAYS WITHOUT BORDERS

February 21, 2009 in Gays Without Borders

New logo designed by Marko, sent by Nicolas Alexeyev

Azerbaijan: Artush and Zaur, New Book by Alekper Aliyev, a Gay Love Story Between Armenian and Azerbaijani Published in Baku

February 19, 2009 in Alekper Aliyev, Armenia, Artush and Zaur, Azerbaijan, Gay, Gay Life, Gay Rights, Georgia, GLBT, Homosexuality, Karabakh, LGBT, Novel

Alekper Aliyev, editor-in-chief of kultura.az, has published, as he put it, his “most scandalous” novel “Artush and Zaur” in Baku. It’s a gay love story between an Azeri and Armenian, a sort of partial deconstruction of Ali and Nino (a heterosexual love story of Azeri Ali and Georgian Nino) having instead Azeri and Armenian male [...]

Pegah Emambakhsh Has Finally Been Granted Permanent Asylum in the United Kingdom

February 18, 2009 in Asylum, Asylum Seeker, Emambakhsh, EveryOne, Gay, Gay Life, Gay Rights, GLBT, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Iran, Lesbian, LGBT, Pegah Emambakhsh, Roberto Malini, UK

Pegah, the Iranian lesbian, has finally been granted permanent asylum in the United Kingdom. By EveryOne Group EveryOne Group and Friends of Pegah: “A historical victory for refugees’ rights, but now we have to block the illegitimate deportation of people persecuted because of their sexual leaning, race or ethnic group”. EveryOne Group, Assist and the [...]

Louis-Georges Tin Joins Activists at UN for Gay Rights in Russia and Belarus

February 18, 2009 in Alexeyev, Ban Ki-Moon, Belarus, Gay, Gay Life, Gay Rights, Gay Russia, Gays Without Borders, GLBT, GWB, Homophobia, Homosexuality, IDAHO, LGBT, Louis-Georges Tin, Nicolas Alexeyev, Nikolai Baev, Russia, Sergei Androsenko, UN

Tin Joins Activists at UN to Press for Gay Rights in Russia, Belarus. Letter is sent to the UN General Secretary after public protest. http://www.gayrussia.ru/ Louis-Georges Tin, the president of the International Day Against Homophobia committee, joined gay activists from Russia and Belarus on Monday at the United Nations to press for gay human rights [...]

British Muslims who Object to Homosexuality Could Be Classed as Extremists

February 17, 2009 in Anti-Gay Propaganda, Death Threats, Gay, Gay Life, Gay Rights, GLBT, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Iqbal Sacranie, Islam, Islamism, Islamofascism, LGBT, Muslim, Muslims, UK

By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk • February 17, 2009 New plans to widen the definition of who is an extremist in the eyes of the British government could include Muslims who object to homosexuality. A revised counter-terrorism strategy is to be published next month. The Guardian reports that a range of beliefs held by many Muslims [...]

Just Say No to the Vatican by Peter Tatchell

February 14, 2009 in Benedict XVI, Christianity, Christo-Fascism, Clero-Fascism, Darwin, Gay, Gay Life, Gay Rights, GLBT, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Just Say No to the Vatican, LGBT, No Vat, Peter Tatchell, Pope, Protest, Secularism, UK, Vatican

Protests this weekend will call for an end to the Vatican’s privileges and its undermining of human rights guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 February 2009 19.30 GMT The Vatican should stop meddling in politics and misusing its power to oppose human rights. Just as importantly, it is time the Italian government ceased kow-towing to the pope’s theocratic [...]

London Protest for a Secular Europe – No Vatican Interference in Politics by Peter Tatchell

February 14, 2009 in Gay, Gay Life, Gay Rights, GLBT, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Just Say No to the Vatican, LGBT, No Vat, Peter Tatchell, Secularism, Vatican

London Protest for a Secular Europe No Vatican interference in politics Stop the Pope’s crusade against women’s and gay rights London, UK Protest Saturday 14 February 2009 Meet @ 2 PM outside the Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD (near the corner with Exhibition Road) March to the Italian Embassy in Grosvenor Square [...]