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April 2007

April 30:  UK:  THT Launches New Healthcare Rights Campaign for Gay Men With HIV Newcastle gets rapid HIV testing centre. 
April 30:
  UK: 
Gays Among Minority Groups Targeted in BNPs Secret Plan for ‘Apartheid’ in Britain Former British Nationalist Party activist, turned anti-fascist campaigner, Matthew Collins, Director of Searchlight's Operation Wedge, has revealed the inside truth about the BNP’s plans for apartheid in Britain, and how to defeat the far right.
April 28:
  European Union: 
MEP Slams Poland’s Anti Gay Stance After Euro Parliament Votes.  As the European Parliament debated the question of homophobia in the EU and, in particular Poland, despite attempts to get the subject off the agenda, UK Green MEP Jean Lambert spoke out against the prominent Polish politicians and ministers making public anti-homosexual statements and even promoting anti-homosexual legislation.
April 26:
  European Union: 
Poland Urged to Drop New Law Banning ‘Homosexual Propaganda’ in Schools.  Following a debate on homophobia in Europe yesterday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution today voicing concern at the recent announcement by the Polish Education Minister of a new draft law to outlaw ‘homosexual propaganda’ in schools.
April 25:
  European Union: 
Gay Rights Group Welcomes European Parliament Debate on Homophobia.  The Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights welcomed the news that the European Parliament would debate and adopt a resolution this week on homophobia in Europe following a vote striking down a motion for dismissal from the Union for the Europe of Nations political group.
April 24:
  UK: 
Veteran Gay Rights Campaigner to Make Parliamentary Bid for Green Party.  Peter Tatchell, the internationally recognised human rights campaigner and founder of the gay human rights group Outrage!, has today been chosen as the Green Party’s general election candidate for Oxford East.
April 19:
  Moldova: 
Gay Pride in Chisinau Should Go Ahead – Mayor of London.  The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has this morning called for the Chisinau City Council to allow the Gay Pride Parade in the Moldovan capital.
April 19:
  UK: 
Government Boost for Campaigners Against Worldwide Gay Hate “Around the world, countless gay, lesbian. bisexual and transsexual people still suffer discrimination, sometimes with devastating consequences for their lives, and in flagrant denial of their human rights.”  A statement from a gay activist?  No.  From two Government Ministers.
April 19:
  Iran: 
Iranian Gay Writer and Activist Seeking Refugee Status Returned to Iran by Turkish Police.  An urgent appeal on behalf of a courageous Iranian gay activist and writer who was deported back to Iran from Turkey two weeks ago was made last night by the Canadian-based Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO).
April 18:
  Iran: 
Don’t Leave Iranian Gays Abandoned.  By Mehdi.   This article was written by a 19-years-old gay Iranian who tells how, while he was a student in London, his boyfriend back home was executed for being gay.  Mehdi says he was scared of returning home and meeting the same fate when his student visa expired last year – and of his asylum application to the Home Office.
April 17:
  UK: 
Demo Set To Support Polish Gays at London Embassy.  Human Rights campaigners will be staging a demonstration next month outside the Polish Embassy in London to express their growing concern about the plight of the LGBT community in Poland.
April 16:
  Iraq: 
Sexual Cleansing: Government Denies Gays Are Targets of Killings.  The Iraqi lesbian and gay community and NGOs dealing with gay issues have called for urgent action to protect gays and lesbians in the country.  The groups say that the number of victims of “sexual cleansing” is growing on a daily basis. 
April 16:
  Moldova: 
City Authorities Deny Gays the Rights Confirmed by Moldovan Supreme Court Decision.  News came from Brussels on Friday afternoon that the Chisinau city authorities had, for the third year running, banned a Gay Pride public event.
April 12:
  Gibraltar: 
Gibraltar Govt. Challenged on Housing Rights for Gays and Lesbians.  Gibraltar’s Equality Rights Group, GGR, is today is challenging local Government on its housing policy towards same-sex couples.
April 12:
  Poland:
  Gay Group Disappointed as European Parliament Adopts Soft Approach on Homophobia in Poland.  The European arm of the International Lesbian and Gay Association expressed “disappointment” at the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee of the European Parliament following a discussion yesterday on homophobia in Poland.
April 12:  Latvia:  Court Victory for Riga Gay Pride The Regional Administrative Court ruled this afternoon that the decision by the Riga City Council to ban last year’s Gay Pride March was illegal – and overturned a lower court decision – leaving Mozaika, the alliance of LGBT and their friends, “gratified”.  Article also in Latvian.
April 12:  UK:  Anti-Gay Reggae Music Campaign Wins Black Community Award.  The ‘Stop Murder Music’ campaign won the Advocacy Award at the Black LGBT Community Awards 2007 gala ceremony in London on-board on a luxury Thames river boat.
April 11:
  UK:
  Brighton Gays to Mark Anti-Homophobia Day Gays in Brighton will be marking International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) next month with an event, including a ‘minute’s noise’ on the seafront.
April 11:  Sri Lanka:  Colombo Gay Pride Seeks Financial Help.  Sri Lanka might be a country that still criminalises homosexuality, but the does not deter gay men and women from staging an annual “Pride” event.
April 4:  Australia:  Melbourne Gays Welcome City’s Relationship Register.  Victorian human rights group, Civil Union Action!, has warmly welcomed the launch of Melbourne City Council’s relationship register last night, but has urged the Bracks government to follow its lead and enact a state-wide scheme.
April 4:
  Iraq:
   More Gays Executed.  Iraqi lesbians and gays continue to be subjected a systematic reign of terror by Shia death squads, Ali Hili, the coordinator of the human rights group Iraqi LGBT, said in London this morning.