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AUGUST 2010
Aug 30: UK/Africa: Archbishop Williams Slammed by Gay Activist Tatchell at Christian Gathering. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, was putting the unity of the world-wide Anglican Church before gay and lesbian human rights, Peter Tatchell told an enthusiastic audience at the annual Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham at the weekend.
Aug 26: UK: Greenbelt Christian Festival Hosts Gay Activist Peter Tatchell. Calls by Anglican Mainstream for a boycott of the year’s Greenbelt Festival over the inclusion of gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell have failed. The Christian arts festival, known for its ‘inclusion’, get underway tomorrow at Cheltenham racecourse and continues over the holiday weekend.
Aug 25: Nepal: Ambassador and His Staff at British Embassy March in Kathmandu Gay Pride. British Ambassador John Tucknott, and Embassy staff joined hands at the street parade in a show of support and solidarity with the sexual and gender minority communities of Nepal in the capital’s colourful Gay Pride parade this afternoon.
Aug 21: UK: Bristol Gay Pride in Pictures. Photographs from the first-ever Bristol Pride parade, staged this afternoon.
Aug 20: Australia: Gays and Marriage Equality: Gillard Slammed Over ‘Christian Heritage’ Claim. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been savaged by marriage equality advocates who have labelled her claim in the run-up to this weekend’s Federal Election that she opposes same-sex marriage because of Australia’s “heritage as a Christian country”, as offensive, ridiculous and extreme.
Aug 16: Russia: “Kill Gays, Lesbians” Call by Former Russian Billionaire on Russian Radio. Russia’s first legal billionaire of modern times has called for the killing of all gays and lesbians. Former super-rich oligarch German Sterligov, who is said to have amassed a fortune in the commodities esxchanges when aged 24 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, confirmed that he wanted all gay men and women killed when he was interviewed at the weekend on the popular Moscow radio station Echo Moskvi.
Aug 14: UK: Swindon Pride 2010 in Pictures: Rain Holds Off for Gay Parade.
Aug 13: UK: Excitement Rising for Swindon and Wiltshire Gay Pride on Saturday. With only hours to go until the third Swindon and Wiltshire Pride event, the excitement is rising in the town’s gay community.
Aug 10: Russia: Anti-Gay Feelings Still Running High in Russia, New Poll Suggests. The attitude of Russian society towards homosexuality, gay pride marches and same-sex marriages is hardening, a new opinion poll is suggesting.
Aug 7: Russia: Russian Gays Plan ‘Pride House’ During Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. A “Pride House” is planned for the 2014 Winter Olympics scheduled to be staged in Sochi, it emerged last night.
Aug 30: UK/Africa: Archbishop Williams Slammed by Gay Activist Tatchell at Christian Gathering. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, was putting the unity of the world-wide Anglican Church before gay and lesbian human rights, Peter Tatchell told an enthusiastic audience at the annual Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham at the weekend.
Aug 26: UK: Greenbelt Christian Festival Hosts Gay Activist Peter Tatchell. Calls by Anglican Mainstream for a boycott of the year’s Greenbelt Festival over the inclusion of gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell have failed. The Christian arts festival, known for its ‘inclusion’, get underway tomorrow at Cheltenham racecourse and continues over the holiday weekend.
Aug 25: Nepal: Ambassador and His Staff at British Embassy March in Kathmandu Gay Pride. British Ambassador John Tucknott, and Embassy staff joined hands at the street parade in a show of support and solidarity with the sexual and gender minority communities of Nepal in the capital’s colourful Gay Pride parade this afternoon.
Aug 21: UK: Bristol Gay Pride in Pictures. Photographs from the first-ever Bristol Pride parade, staged this afternoon.
Aug 20: Australia: Gays and Marriage Equality: Gillard Slammed Over ‘Christian Heritage’ Claim. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been savaged by marriage equality advocates who have labelled her claim in the run-up to this weekend’s Federal Election that she opposes same-sex marriage because of Australia’s “heritage as a Christian country”, as offensive, ridiculous and extreme.
Aug 16: Russia: “Kill Gays, Lesbians” Call by Former Russian Billionaire on Russian Radio. Russia’s first legal billionaire of modern times has called for the killing of all gays and lesbians. Former super-rich oligarch German Sterligov, who is said to have amassed a fortune in the commodities esxchanges when aged 24 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, confirmed that he wanted all gay men and women killed when he was interviewed at the weekend on the popular Moscow radio station Echo Moskvi.
Aug 14: UK: Swindon Pride 2010 in Pictures: Rain Holds Off for Gay Parade.
Aug 13: UK: Excitement Rising for Swindon and Wiltshire Gay Pride on Saturday. With only hours to go until the third Swindon and Wiltshire Pride event, the excitement is rising in the town’s gay community.
Aug 10: Russia: Anti-Gay Feelings Still Running High in Russia, New Poll Suggests. The attitude of Russian society towards homosexuality, gay pride marches and same-sex marriages is hardening, a new opinion poll is suggesting.
Aug 7: Russia: Russian Gays Plan ‘Pride House’ During Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. A “Pride House” is planned for the 2014 Winter Olympics scheduled to be staged in Sochi, it emerged last night.
