Gay married couple may be split up after US deportation order
A Brazillian man and his American husband may be split up after the US attorney-general refused to reverse an immigration order. Genesio Oliveira, 31, is married to Tim Coco, 49, of Massachusetts, but...
View ArticleUS to look again at gay blood donation ban
The US Department of Health and Human Services is to look again at the lifetime blood donation ban for men who have had gay sex. The department said yesterday that the current policy is “sub-optimal”...
View ArticleSenator John Kerry seeks to prevent lesbian being deported to Pakistan
John Kerry is aiming to help prevent one half of a married lesbian couple in Massachusetts from deported back to Pakistan. The Democratic senior senator is requesting the Department of Homeland...
View ArticleAnalysis: US 2012 race draws to a close
On Wednesday morning the United States and the rest of the world could either be waking up to another four years of Barack Obama, or the start of a very different Republican administration with Mitt...
View ArticleUS: Retiring gay Congressman Barry Frank says he’ll consider role of...
The retiring Democrat Congressman Barney Frank has indicated that he would be willing to serve as a temporary senator should John Kerry be appointed the next Secretary of State. Mr Frank represents...
View ArticleUS: Gay ex-congressman Barney Frank definitely wants temporary US Senate job
Barney Frank has told Massachusetts’ Governor, Deval Patrick, that he is happy to take up a temporary role as a US senator for the state. Frank, who left the US House of Representatives after 32 years...
View ArticleGay former congressman Barney Frank misses out on temporary US Senate vacancy
Ex-congressman Barney Frank has been overlooked to serve as the interim US senator for Massachusetts. Frank told reporters on Wednesday he’d spoken with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick about the...
View ArticleUN holds top level meeting on the need to protect LGBT rights
A group of 11 countries have called on UN member states to repeal laws that discriminate against LGBT people, in the organisation’s highest-level meeting on the issue. “Those who are lesbian, gay,...
View ArticleUN releases LGBT rights video featuring John Kerry and other foreign ministers
A video featuring high-ranking foreign officials from 11 countries – who last week called on UN member states to repeal laws that discriminate against LGBT people – has been released by the UN’s LGBT...
View ArticleUS Secretary of State blasts Nigeria’s ‘dangerous’ anti-gay law
US Secretary of State John Kerry has condemned Nigeria for banning same-sex marriages and for further criminalising homosexuality. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan quietly signed the strict measure...
View ArticleJohn Kerry: America will now review its relations with Uganda over its...
US Secretary of State John Kerry says his country is now reviewing its relations with Uganda, following President Yoweri Museveni’s decision to sign anti-gay legislation. President Yoweri Museveni...
View ArticleSeveral countries cut aid to Uganda over anti-gay law
One day after Uganda’s President signed into law a bill making homosexuality punishable with life imprisonment, several countries have already said they will cut aid to the country. President Yoweri...
View ArticleJohn Kerry: Arizona’s Governor should ‘make the right decision’ and veto...
US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Arizona’s Governor to “make the right decision” and veto a bill to legalise anti-gay discrimination. Arizona’s Senate Bill 1062 would prevent the state from...
View ArticleJohn Kerry compares Ugandan anti-gay law to apartheid and anti-Semitism
US Secretary of State John Kerry has compared Uganda’s newly introduced anti-gay law with anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany and apartheid in South Africa. Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed the...
View ArticleUS suspends some aid to Uganda over anti-gay law
The United States has suspended some of its aid to Uganda’s ministry of health as a response to President Yoweri Museveni’s decision to sign anti-gay legislation. Following the recent decision of...
View ArticleSpiked Editor Brendan O’Neill: John Kerry is the real anti-gay villain, not...
The editor of Spiked has used colonial racist language in an article attacking America’s Secretary of State for urging Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni to understand that homosexuality is not a...
View ArticleUganda proposes new law to tackle NGOs promoting ‘very bad homosexuality’
Uganda says it plans to introduce a new law that would prohibit non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from promoting homosexuality, further tightening rules on same-sex activity in the country. The...
View ArticleObama: We should reaffirm our commitment to equality to fight anti-gay laws
Barack Obama has said the world needs to “recommit” to the principle of equality to halt an upsurge in anti-gay discrimination, in a statement commemorating IDAHOT. The US President wrote in a...
View ArticleUganda: Officials ‘confident’ anti-gay minister will still become UN...
Ugandan officials say they are “confident” that anti-gay politician Samuel Kutesa will become head of the UN General Assembly, as there has been no “formal protest” from Western leaders. Kutesa serves...
View ArticleUS: 119 members of Congress want Brunei trade deal called off over ‘stone the...
Over a hundred members of the US House of Representatives have signed a letter urging the government to call off a trade deal with Brunei over its new anti-gay law. In April the Sultan, Hassanal...
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