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April 29:  USA:  Largest Gay Chamber of Commerce in US Denounces Microsoft Inaction on Discrimination.  The Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) spoke out today against Microsoft’s change to a neutral stance on legislation which would have banned discrimination against homosexuals throughout Washington State in housing, employment and insurance.  The bill failed by one vote.
April 29:  Ireland:  Europe’s Only Gay Theatre Festival Is Launched in Dublin.  The Second  Dublin Gay Theatre Festival opened in style this week when several hundred guests attended the launch party at Glitz, Break for the Border, one of Dublin’s premier gay clubs.
April 28:  Africa:  UN Urges Fewer Words and More Results on HIV/AIDS.  UNAIDS has called for more action and less rhetoric from both government and civil society organisations if Africa is to succeed in its battle against the pandemic.
April 28: UK:  Mautner Project Slams Magellan Health Over Throckmorton Appointment.  The re-appointment of Dr. Warren Throckmorton to the National Professional Advisory Council of Magellan Health Services has been attacked by the America’s lesbian health organization The Mautner Project.
April 28: UK: Pride London  Announces Gala Opera Night and Film Festival.  A Gala opera night with the English National Opera at the London Coliseum and a Pride Film Festival are to feature in the Pride London Festival fortnight being held  between June 18 and July 1.
April 28:  UK:  Election 2005:  Conservatives Break “No Election  Homophobia” Deal, Claims OutRage!  The Conservative party has reneged on a deal to keep the general election campaign free from “homophobia”, gay human rights group OutRage! claimed today.
April 28:  UK:  Manchester Pride's Sporting Gay Games For All.  Pride Games, a multi-sports tournament, is being staged in Manchester as part of the city’s ten-day Pride festival in August.
April 27: Poland:  Rescuing the Liminal Spaces Between Pride and Exclusion, by Chris Bell.  Consider a queer setting.  Whether that venue is a bar, a sporting event, or an academic/activist gathering such as this one, it seems a given that there are subjectivities that have been excluded.  Irrespective of the intentionality of such a happening, the fact is such occurrences certainly do take place and on a fairly quotidian basis. [This is an academic paper presented last week at the Culture for Tolerance Festival in Kraków]
April 27:  USA:  Metropolitan Community Churches Nominates Next Moderator.  Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, a longtime leader in the predominantly gay Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC), has been nominated to become the next Moderator of the MCC denomination.
April 23:  Poland:  A Bird Sang at Auschwitz As Gays Remembered Holocaust Victims, by Andy Harley in Oświęcim.  It is said that the birds don’t sing at Auschwitz.  But today, a sole bird sang as gays from nine countries left wreaths at the foot of the notorious “Wall of Death’.
April 23:  Nepal:  Metis File Case Against Nepal Police Following Beatings.  Four members of Blue Diamond Society – Julie, Josma, Sunil Sunwar and Suraj (meti names) – have filed a case against Police Inspector Prem Bahadur Malla and Sub Inspector Kuver Chand along with other unidentified police officers who were patrolling in a mobile Police van on 31 Chaitre 2061 (13 April 2005) around 11.30 pm in Kantipath, near Thamel.
April 22:  Poland:  March Is Off, But the Show Goes On, by Andy Harley in Kraków.  Organisers of the Culture for Tolerance March in Kraków — effectively the Pride Parade — did the smart thing.  They cancelled the parade.
April 20:  UK:  Irshad Manji To Speak in London.  Muslim, lesbian, feminist, writer, scholar and TV personality – Irshad Manji is all these things ... and the controversial best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-Up Call for Honesty and Change.  She will be speaking in London on Thursday May 12, hosted by the Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement, with backing from a wide range of gay, women’s, faith and human rights organisations.
April 19:  Sports - Mexico:  Equipo México Formed To Boost World Outgames.  A new LGBT sports team, Equipo México, was formed during a special Mexico Registration Day for the 1st World Outgames in 2006 at the weekend.
April 18:  Nepal:  Nepali Police Attack Transgender People.  From Human Rights Watch.  Police in Kathmandu attacked a group of transgender people on Wednesday, underscoring the vulnerability of all Nepalese to police abuse since King Gyanendra seized direct power in February and suspended most civil liberties, Human Rights Watch said today.
April 18:  UK:  Tatchell Endorses Brighton and Hove’s Gay Greens.  Lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual (LGBT) people deserve equal protection from discrimination and hate crime, alongside other groups such as religious minorities, says out gay Green Party parliamentary candidate Councillor Simon Williams as he received the endorsement of veteran gay human rights activist Peter Tatchell.
April 18:  UK:  Youngsters Gearing-Up for London Pride. This year's London Pride is less than three months away and young gays are in the final stages of planning the Youth @ Pride activities.
April 14:  Nepal:  Brutal Start to Nepali New Year as Police Beat Metis, by Sunil Pant.  Many people may be lucky to celebrate the Nepali New Year, but some are not privileged enough even to be wished a Happy New Year.  Last night, New Year’s Eve, turned to be sorrowful start of year 2062 for Nepalese Metis (effeminate males).
April 13:  UK:  UK Preacher Convicted of Displaying Anti-Gay Billboard.  A large sign saying “God says that if you reject him you may become a homosexual” has left a candidate in next month’s General Election in trouble.  Magistrates at Salisbury Court found 46 years-old John Holme of Ayrshire Close, Salisbury,  guilty of breaching the peace by acting in a manner likely to cause offence or distress last summer.
April 12:  Poland:  Kraków Pride Parade Cancelled ... But Festival Goes Ahead.  The “Pride” parade at Kraków, scheduled for Friday April 22, has been called-off, due to the death of Pope John Paul II who lived, studied and preached in the city for almost 30 years before becoming Pope.
April 8:  Poland:  Gay Tolerance Festival in Poland Under Threat.  Just €2,000 (£1,300)  Needed for ‘Pride’ To Go Ahead in Krakow as scheduled.
April 8:  Saudi Arabia:  Men ‘Behaving Like Women’ Face Flogging.  In sentencing more than 100 men to imprisonment and flogging after unfair trials for reputed homosexual conduct, Saudi Arabia has advertised its contempt for the basic rights to privacy, fair trials and freedom from torture, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists said yesterday.
April 7:  UK Sports:  Rugby Union:  Bisons Step-In for Injury-Hit Thebans.  An injury crisis has forced the Caledonian Thebans to pull out of their much-anticipated Inter-Club Challenge clash with Kings Cross Steelers which is scheduled for April 23.  But the Bristol Bisons club has stepped in and will now face the Steelers at their  ground in West Ham, London for the Challenge match for gay rugby union clubs.
April 6:  Nepal:  Escape From Mumbai:  Young Nepali tells how he was forced into 'sexual slavery' in India and life in a brothel.  By Sunil B. Pant (in Kathmandu) and Andy Harley.  Divya sat there and calmly related a quite devastating story of deception, torture and a seven-year life of hell in a male brothel in India.  He, and we will call him ‘he’ although he is a “meta” or feminine male, spoke about his escape from the Mumbai brothel and his return to his native Pokhara in the foothills of the Himalayas.  There he was reunited with his loving mother, but found that most people in the city harassed him whey they found out about his life over the past seven years.
April 6:  Nepal:  Nepal Gay Group To Lift Lid on Teens Sold to Indian Male Brothels.  The story of a young Nepali man who was sold to an Indian male brothel is due to be brought to light today in Kathmandu, Nepal.
April 3:  UK:  English Sexual Health Services Remain Low Priority, Report Says.  Sexual health services continue to remain a low priority in England with Primary Care Trusts (PCT) which are failing to provide adequate sexual health services, a report published today reveals.
April 3:  USA:  Lesbian Couple Forbidden in Michigan Catholic Parish.  A lesbian couple has been turned away from St.Joan of Arc Catholic Church in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, for no other reason than the fact that they are in a committed loving same-sex relationship.
April 2:  POPE JOHN PAUL.  The Pope – the third-longest serving in history – might not have been held in high regard by the gay community, but that is no reason to totally dismiss his Papacy of 26 years.
April 1:  USA/Israel:  Rev Troy Perry: We Are Coming to Jerusalem  – It's Our Holy City, Too.  An internationally-known gay cleric entered the debate over the upcoming WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem today, noting: “We are deeply saddened that once again, religion has been used to attack God's gay and lesbian children.”