Gay activists fined in Russia
April 25th, 2012 - 11:23 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) For the first time in Russia, an event organiser and numerous gay rights activists have been penalised for promoting homosexuality, officials said Wednesday.Laws penalising "the ... Read more...
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Madonna should be denied Russian visa: Theologian
April 6th, 2012 - 7:58 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A prominent Russian Orthodox Church theologian has called on the government to deny a visa to Madonna, who plans to lend her support to ... Read more...
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Raul Castro’s daughter launches blog
December 23rd, 2011 - 12:19 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Dec 23 (IANS/EFE) Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro and director of the National Sexual Education Center, has launched a blog."El blog de Mariela Castro" featured ... Read more...
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Sexual minorities fight AIDS with peer group’s help (Feature, Dec 1 is World AIDS Day)
November 30th, 2011 - 4:03 pm ICT by IANS
Belgaum (Karnataka), Nov 30 (IANS) In a dark room in Belgaum district, they sit together looking comfortable. They are in an office and are not even distantly related. But, as ... Read more...
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Chennai transgender model to compete in international pageant
October 13th, 2011 - 10:40 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 13 (IANS) City-based transgender model Malaika, 28, will represent India in the Miss International Queen 2011, a beauty contest for members of the community to be held ... Read more...
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‘Bigg Boss-5′ has strong Nepal connection
October 3rd, 2011 - 5:21 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Oct 3 (IANS) It's not just that one of the 14 contestants who entered the 'Bigg Boss' house in Mumbai Monday night for the fifth edition of Colour TV's ... Read more...
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Nepal to mourn Mumbai, Norway attack victims
August 3rd, 2011 - 2:22 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Aug 3 (IANS) Exactly a month after three synchronised explosions in India's business capital Mumbai claimed 24 lives, the dead as well as the nearly 150 people injured will ... Read more...
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Nepal gay MP dubs Azad sociopath
July 6th, 2011 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, July 6 (IANS) The outrage triggered by Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement that homosexuality was "unnatural" spread outside India with the founder of the gay rights movement ... Read more...
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Bollywood celebs slam Azad’s comments on MSM
July 5th, 2011 - 5:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) Bollywood celebrities like Celina Jaitley and Onir, who are quite vocal about supporting India's gay community, are shocked at Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's comment ... Read more...
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Lesbian soldier fights Nepal Army
July 1st, 2011 - 2:29 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, July 1 (IANS) After hitting the headlines worldwide last month for hosting a temple wedding for an American lesbian couple, Nepal's sexual minorities are now locked in a grim ... Read more...
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Nepal gays seek inspiration from Bollywood’s `I Am’
May 31st, 2011 - 1:55 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, May 31 (IANS) Still portrayed as buffoons, aliens and despicable people by their own silver screen story-tellers, Nepal's burgeoning gay community is now hoping Bollywood's path-breaking films like "I ... Read more...
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‘Community feedback must in India’s AIDS programme’
May 5th, 2011 - 7:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+), an umbrella body of HIV-positive people in the capital, Thursday said it was important to have the community's ... Read more...
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Arundhati walks with different comrades in Kathmandu (With Image)
April 18th, 2011 - 4:07 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, April 18 (IANS) Booker prize winner and social activist Arundhati Roy walked with comrades of a different kind in Kathmandu Monday on her maiden visit to the Himalayan republic.However, ... Read more...
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Gandhi will remain an inspiration: Nepal’s gay icon (Lead)
April 8th, 2011 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, April 8 (IANS) Nepal's only openly gay public figure, who became an icon for South Asia's sexual minorities with his crusade for gay rights, says the sexual orientation of ... Read more...
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Nepal’s gay icon champions Gandhi in book row
April 8th, 2011 - 2:09 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, April 8 (IANS) Nepal's only openly gay public figure, who became an icon for South Asia's sexual minorities with his crusade for gay rights, has now thrown his support ... Read more...
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Gay rights activist murdered in Uganda
January 27th, 2011 - 11:15 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 27 (IANS) A leading gay rights activist has been murdered in Uganda a few months after a newspaper printed his photograph and called for him to be killed, the Sky ... Read more...
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India’s human rights defenders need better protection: UN expert
January 22nd, 2011 - 11:08 am ICT by IANS
United Nations, Jan 22 (IANS) An independent United Nations human rights expert has called on Indian authorities to do much more to ensure a safe and conducive environment for human rights defenders ... Read more...
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Pink tour agency draws gay Buddhists to Nepal
January 5th, 2011 - 4:35 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Jan 5 (IANS) When Nepal's first openly gay MP, Sunil Babu Pant, launched the country's first travel agency for homosexuals, lesbians and transgenders, the travel package to hit the ... Read more...
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‘Media should be trained, sensitised in HIV reporting’
December 2nd, 2010 - 11:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) A story in the media can act as a powerful communicator of an important message, while a misrepresentation can cause irreversible damage. For reporting on the sensitive ... Read more...
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India’s pink industry keeps pace with growth in West
October 11th, 2010 - 1:38 pm ICT by IANS
By Rohit Vaid
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) A niche market spanning clothing and fashion accessories, tourism and media targeted at the lesbian/gay/bisexualransgender (LGBT) community is fast growing in India, with entrepreneurs wanting ... Read more...
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Nepal gays start hungerstrike against bias
September 14th, 2010 - 1:17 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Sep 14 (IANS) Led by Nepal's only openly gay member of parliament Sunil Babu Pant, dozens of homosexuals, lesbians and transgenders began a public demonstration in the capital ... Read more...
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Gay rights movement celebrates decade in Nepal
September 12th, 2010 - 1:26 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Sep 12 (IANS) The only country in South Asia to recognise same sex marriages, Nepal Sunday celebrates a decade of the gay rights movement pioneered by a single group ... Read more...
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An Indian bookstore in cyberia for queer folks
June 28th, 2010 - 11:14 am ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) This bookshop in cyberspace is queer...literally! It caters to the country's alternative community of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans-gender (LGBT) people and stacks up on ... Read more...
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Boycott politicians past their shelf life: Nepal’s gay MP (Lead)
May 9th, 2010 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, May 9 (IANS) With a constitutional crisis less than three weeks away and Nepal's political parties still squabbling among themselves, the nation's only openly gay MP and founder of ... Read more...
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Gay MP seeks ’senile’ Nepal politicians’ boycott
May 9th, 2010 - 2:48 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, May 9 (IANS) With an unparalleled constitutional crisis less than three weeks away and Nepal's political parties still squabbling among themselves, the nation's only openly gay MP and founder ... Read more...
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Now, Nepal will allow gays to marry on Mt. Everest
April 21st, 2010 - 3:24 pm ICT by ANI
Kathmandu, Apr.21 (ANI): In 2007, Nepal had classified homosexuality as a crime, punishable by up to two years in prison, but now, the Himalayan nation is about to become the first in ... Read more...
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Gays more likely to experience violent events, mental illness
April 16th, 2010 - 3:29 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 16 (ANI): Gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and heterosexuals who have ever had a same-sex sex partner are one-and-a-half to two times as likely to experience violent events, especially in childhood, ... Read more...
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Nepal’s transgenders make a political mark (Feature with images)
March 7th, 2010 - 2:36 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, March 7 (IANS) Bhumika Shrestha, who became the first Miss Pink Nepal, is an icon of the transgender community. And she is also its first member to take the ... Read more...
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Gay activists attack Ugandan Minister’s same-sex porn slideshow
February 19th, 2010 - 5:14 pm ICT by ANI
Kampala (Uganda), Feb 19(ANI): A Ugandan Minister, who screened same-sex pornography in a church here to try to bolster support for proposed anti-homosexuality legislation, has been condemned by several gay rights groups.Martin ... Read more...
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Russian centre in Nepal stops screening gay film
February 16th, 2010 - 1:29 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Feb 16 (IANS) Nepal's sexual minorities are stung by the refusal of the Russian Cultural Centre in Kathmandu, run by the Russian government, to screen a documentary on gay ... Read more...
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Sex workers demand legalization of prostitution
December 9th, 2009 - 11:08 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Dec 9 (IANS) A group of sex workers from across the country at a conclave here Wednesday demanded legalization of their profession to end incidences of violence and discrimination against them.
The ... Read more...
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Karnataka’s sexual minorities in fight against AIDS (Dec 1 is World AIDS Day)
November 30th, 2009 - 7:46 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Nov 30 (IANS) Helen is a busy woman as she goes about counselling those in the flesh trade about the danger of HIV-AIDS. She is one of many sex workers who ... Read more...
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Human rights groups blast new Ugandan anti-gay bill
October 16th, 2009 - 1:04 pm ICT by IANS
Kampala, Oct 16 (DPA) Human rights groups have blasted Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which includes a section that would introduce the death penalty for the offence of "aggravated homosexuality".
The bill proposes stricter penalties ... Read more...
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Roman Polanski defenders ‘try to define’ what rape is (corrected)
October 6th, 2009 - 1:18 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 6 (ANI): The defenders of noted film director Roman Polanski, who has been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977 and then fleeing the country, have been trying ... Read more...
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Roman Polanski defenders ‘try to define’ what rape is
October 4th, 2009 - 2:24 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 4 (ANI): The defenders of noted film director Roman Polanski, who has been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977 and then fleeing the country, have been trying ... Read more...
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