Hungary: Budapest Pride 2009 – 30 August – 6 September 2009

August 30, 2009 in 30 August 2009, Budapest, Budapest Pride, Gay, Gay Life, Gay Parade, Gay Pride, Gay Rights, GLBT, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Hungary, LGBT, Queer

Budapest Pride 2009 – 30 August – 6 September 2009 Joint statement expressing support for Budapest Pride festival On the occasion of the 2009 Budapest Pride Festival, the embassies of Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States express their support [...]

Russia: St. Petersburg to Host Russia’s Biggest Queer Cultural Event – September 17-27, 2009

August 30, 2009 in Bill Schiller, Cultural Event, Gay, Gay Life, Gay Rights, GLBT, Homosexuality, ILGCN, LGBT, Photography, Poetry Slam, Queer, Russia, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Tupilak

St. Petersburg to Host Russia’s Biggest Queer Cultural Event (Photograph: Bort) St. Petersburg – The International Festival of Queer Culture 2009 – September 17-27, 2009 – will take place in this Russian city as the largest-scale event of this type in this country so far. Several public organisations and initiative groups of St. Petersburg, both [...]

Belgrade LGBT Pride – September 20th, 2009 – It’s Time for Equality!

August 29, 2009 in Belgrade, Belgrade Pride, Beograd, Dragan Djilas, Gay, Gay Life, Gay Parade, Gay Pride, Gay Rights, GLBT, Homosexuality, Ivica Dacic, Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Serbia

Belgrade Pride invites lesbians, gays, bisexuals, asexuals, intersexuals, trans and queer folk, their friends, families and all those who wish to build society free of fear, violence and discrimination – to join us in Pride parade! On September 20th 2009 together we will write new history of our town; it will be the day when [...]

Iran: New Prison-Rape Allegations Bring Practice To Light

August 26, 2009 in Ahmadinejad, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Golnaz Esfandiari, Homosexual Rape, Homosexuality, Iran, Iran Young Boys Rapes, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Male-on-Male Rapist, Mehdi Karrubi, Rape, Rapist, Sodomy

Photo: Iran Arrested, Beaten and Raped: an Iran Protester’s Tale New Prison-Rape Allegations In Iran Bring Practice To Light By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty http://www.rferl.org/content/New_PrisonRape_Allegations_In_Iran_Bring_Practice_To_Light/1808311.html August 26, 2009 By Golnaz Esfandiari Allegations of prison authorities’ use of rape as a means of punishment or intimidation in the Islamic republic are nothing new. But for [...]

Iraq: Human Right Watch Report – They Want Us Exterminated – Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq

August 18, 2009 in Ali Hili, Baghdad, Gay, Gay Life, Gay Rights, GLBT, Homophobia, Homosexuality, HRW, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Irak, Iraq, LGBT, Madhi Army, Moqtada al-Sadr

New HRW Report : “They Want Us Exterminated” Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq August 17, 2009 This 67-page report documents a wide-reaching campaign of extrajudicial executions, kidnappings, and torture of gay men that began in early 2009. The killings began in the vast Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, a stronghold of Moqtada [...]

Ezra Nawi Spared Jail, for Now – 20,000 People Sign Petition, Urging “Don’t Jail Ezra” by Peter Tatchell

August 18, 2009 in Ezra Nawi, Gay, Gay Life, GLBT, Israel, LGBT, Palestine, Peter Tatchell, South Hebron

Ezra Nawi spared jail, for now 20,000 people sign petition, urging “don’t jail Ezra” Prosecution to seek lesser sentence on 21 September Thanks to everyone who signed, now get your friends to sign too London – 17 August 2009 Jerusalem Magistrate Judge Eilata Ziskind has announced that a final decision on sentencing Palestinian human rights [...]

Moscow Gay Club Under Threats of Closing – Hostage of an Electoral Campaign?

August 12, 2009 in Gay, Gay Life, Gay Rights, Gay Russia, Gays Without Borders, GLBT, Homophobia, Homosexuality, LGBT, Oleg Mitvol, Queer

Oleg Mitvol entering gay club on Friday evening State Duma Deputy sues Moscow Prefect over allegation he was protecting a gay club As the story developed today, it turned that the club became the hostage of the electoral fight in one of Moscow’s constituencies for the upcoming City Duma elections. “It’s not a question of [...]

Russian Gay Activists Appeal to the European Court Over Banned Public Actions in Ryazan

August 6, 2009 in Gay, Gay Life, Gay Rights, Gay Russia, Gay Russians, GLBT, Homosexuality, LGBT

Russian Gay Activists Appeal to the European Court Over Banned Public Actions in Ryazan They claim compensation of 100,000 Euros In 2006 Ryazan, a city 180 km from Moscow, became the first and only region of Russia to adopt a law that forbids any form of propaganda of homosexuality to minors. In March 2009 LGBT [...]