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October 29:  
Dobson Lawyers Get Tough With Gay Christian Church as Presiding Bishop Is Installed.  The installation of the Presiding Bishop of a predominantly-gay Christian denomination took an unexpected twist today when lawyers for Dr. James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” insisted they cease using the name of their new ministry to persons with HIV and AIDS.

Gay Arts Festival in Liverpool Gets Underway.  November 2005 is the month that Liverpool will again play host to the hugely successful Homotopia.  After launching a pilot programme in November last year.  On offer  are a wide variety of events, events including film, theatre, comedy, heritage, cabaret and art. The festival runs from October 31 to November 14.

October 27:  
UK:  Civil Partnership:  Gays in Northern Ireland Have Two-Day Start on Rest of UK.  The first registrations for Civil Partnerships in the United Kingdom will take place on Monday December 19 in Northern Ireland – two days before England, Scotland and Wales ­– the Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP) in Belfast said today.

Pasolini: First English Translation of 1964 Poem by Famed Gay Italian Poet, Filmmaker.  November 2 will be the 30th anniversary of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini – and to commemorate his disappearance, one of his major poetic works Victory has been published for the first time ever in English translation.

October 26:
UK/Nigeria:  Nigeria: Outrage! Protests Teen Lesbians ‘Brutal Caning’.  The London-based gay human rights group Outrage! has protested the recent sentencing of six young girls, one said to be as young as 12, to 90 strokes of the cane following accusations of lesbianism. 

USA:  New Estimate Suggests 25 of 2,000 US Casualties in Iraq May Have Been Gay.  As reports circulated yesterday that American casualties in the war in Iraq have reached 2000, statistician Gary Gates estimated today that more than 25 of those killed were gay or lesbian.

October 25: 
France/Russia:  Russian Public Opinion Shows Support for Gay Equality.  A majority of Russians think that gays should have equal rights, a poll has revealed.

October 20: 
France/Russia:  Plans for IDAHO Meeting to Be Revealed in 'Gay Paree'.  Details of the first-ever meeting of the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) are to be unveiled in Paris next week – in the ‘Mayor’s Auditorium’ of the historic Hôtel de Ville (City Hall)

Russia:  Likening Gays to Fascists Made Me So Furious.  Commentary  by  Nikolai  Alekseev  of GayRussia.ru on his trip to Krasnodar.  When I saw the slogan at the anti-gay protest in Krasnodar that organisers of next year’s Moscow Pride want revenge for fascist’s defeat over 60 years ago, I was not just amazed – I was furious.

October 16: 
Russia:  Krasnodar’s Anti-Gay Protest Turns Out Low Key Under Watchful Eye of Militia, by Nikolai Alekseev.  Yesterday’s anti-gay protest in Krasnodar was banned by the authorities on the technicality that one of the groups organising the demonstration had been ordered by the courts to be closed down.  So there was one obvious question I had when I arrived at the monument to the Black Sea Kazak Army in the city and found the local law enforcement officers there.

October 15: 
Russia:  Anti-Gay Protest Goes Ahead in Krasnodar Despite Ban - Only 30 Turn Up.  Anti-gay protestors defied a ban imposed by the Krasnodarski region authorities and rallied as promised in Krasnodar today.  Earlier in the week, organisers of the “patriots-homophobes” demonstration had predicted that 500 would turn up to protest the staging of a Gay Pride in Moscow, some 1,500 kilometres away.

October 13: 
Russia:  Anti-Gay Demo in Krasnodar Banned by Authorities.  Authorities in the Krasnodarski region of Russia have said this evening that they will not authorise the anti-gay demonstration in Krasnodar on Saturday.

Russia:  Protest Against Moscow Gay Pride in City 1,500 km Distant. A demonstration against the proposed first-ever Moscow Gay Pride festival, scheduled to be staged in May next year, will take place on Saturday (October 15) in Krasnodar, some 1,500 km (950 miles) from the Russian capital and close to the Black Sea.