A gay teenager spared an immediate return to Iran, where he claims he faces the death penalty, said yesterday that he will only feel safe if the Home Secretary personally guarantees his right to remain in Britain.
Mehdi Kazemi, 19, who lost his asylum claim in Britain even though it was alleged that his former boyfriend was executed for sodomy, spoke openly of his distrust of the Government.
His case has already provoked a public outcry, forcing the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, to agree to reconsider his claim for refugee status. But speaking from a detention centre in Rotterdam, where he is being held after fleeing to the Netherlands, Mr Kazemi said he fears for his future. Full story...
NEW YORK, NY - - - The Issues Magazine launched "Our Genders, Our Rights," its Summer 2009 edition.
A House subcommittee today advanced a bill to provide health and retirement benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of gay and lesbian federal employees.
President Obama, attempting to spotlight those who have acted as "agents of change," today announced that he will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, on a cast of living and deceased figures widely known in politics, the arts and sciences, sports and social movements.
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today launched a national, grassroots campaign called "No Excuses" to demand action from Congress on key issues of equality.
Simon Karlinsky, an openly gay distinguished professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert on the history of homosexuality in Russia, died July 5 due to congestive heart failure.
Want to predict which state might move next to legalize same-sex marriage? You might count Catholics.
Quote of the day, from Kid Rock, to Rolling Stone, via Page Six, about Twitter:
"It's gay.
BAGHDAD — The young man turns to the camera and pleads with his tormentors.
"I'm not a terrorist," he tells the Iraqi police who surround him.
A Dane has been charged with committing a hate crime for allegedly throwing fireworks at athletes during a gay sporting event in Copenhagen.
Order: Gay partnership foe names don't have to be released
The names of people who signed petitions seeking to overturn Washington's "everything but marriage" same-sex domestic partner law won't be released publicly following a federal judge's temporary restraining order.
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