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Dec 31: UK:  Disappointment that Gays, Lesbians and Transgender People Ignored in Tory Domestic Violence Plans.  Broken Rainbow, the UK’s sole LGBT domestic violence telephone helpline, is surprised and disappointed that lesbians, gays and transgender people are not included in the Conservative plans to tackle domestic violence.
Dec 31: Belarus:  European Commission Closely Monitors Gay and Transgender Rights in Belarus, Top Official Says.  Democracy and respect for human rights are the core elements in European Union contacts with the Belarusian authorities, a Belarusian gay activist has been told.
Dec 27: Serbia:  Two Anti Gay Hate Groups in Serbia Zapped by Facebook.  Two Serbian “gay hate groups” have been removed by Facebook.  Two days ago, UK Gay News revealed that the two Facebook groups, “Queeria, Pederi Marš iz Srbije” and “СТОП ПЕДЕРИМА - КВИРИЈИ!” were posting death threats on Serbian gay men and women – and calling for other criminal activity.
Dec 26: Serbia:  Please Protect Us, Serbian Gays Plead: Death Threats, Attacks Faced as Facebook Fails to Remove Two Hate Groups.  Please protect us.  That is the plea from gays and lesbian in Serbia to their government, the police and the wider world this holiday season.
Dec 25: UK:  Tatchell: C4s Ahmadinejad Message Is “Insult to Murdered Iranians, Gay and Straight”.  Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell last night urged UK commercial public service Channel 4 to “pull the plug” on it’s Alternative Christmas Message, to be broadcast this afternoon.
Dec 23: UK:  Pope Is Wrong on “Gay Threat”, Says Tatchell.  By choosing to highlight homosexuality instead of hunger, war and homelessness, the Pope has lost his moral bearings and sense of priorities, Peter Tatchell said this afternoon.
Dec 23: USA:  The New US Administration, Race, the Bible – and Gay Rights.  A letter to readers of UK Gay News from the Rev. Gil Caldwell.  I have been an ally/advocate of gay rights in the USA for a number of years.  The first article I wrote expressing my support of LGBT persons was published in 1980 in a United Methodist Church journal.
Dec 21: Poland:  Concern Among Polish Gays Over Looming Court Battle.  Commentary.  Many gays in Poland are worried.  Very worried.  No, it is not the usual and “historical” reasons – homophobic politicians egged-on by the Roman Catholic Church to “have a go” at the gays.
Dec 20: Russia:  GayRussia Celebrates Three and a Half Years of Gay Activism – and a Million Visitors to Website.  Three Moscow Prides, 165 banned events appealed in the courts, 5,000 articles published, 10 million hits on its web site, and more than a billion watchers of Moscow Pride 2006 documentary.  A retrospective.
Dec 19: United Nations/Nepal:  Openly Gay MP From Nepal Speaks at United Nations.  The text of the speech written by the openly gay Sunil Babu Pant, a Member of the Constituent Assembly and Parliament of Nepal, for the United Nations on Thursday. 
Dec 19: United Nations:  Russian Delegation at UN Explains Country’s Stance on Yesterday’s Statement on Gay and Transgender Rights.  The Russian Federation declined to support either “side” at yesterday’s United Nations statement in support of the decriminalisation of homosexual relations and respect for the right of people irrespective of this sexual orientation and gender identity, GayRussia.ru learned this afternoon.
Dec 19: UK:  MP Tables Early Day Motion in UK Parliament on Worldwide Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Rights.  Members of Parliament from five political parts have signed an ‘Early Day Motion’ that urges the UK government to continue its work towards world-wide decriminalisation of homosexuality and to end gender identity discrimination.
Dec 19: Russia:  Moscow Court Rules Ban on Gay Picket Outside Iranian Embassy Was Lawful.  The Moscow City Court dismissed yesterday an appeal by the organisers of a proposed picket last July in front of Iranian Embassy which was banned by the city authorities. The Taganskiy district court had upheld the ban.  In 2006 and 2007 similar demonstrations outside the Iranian Embassy were permitted.  But the word “homosexual” was not in the application to the city authorities.  It was this year, activists say.
Dec 18: United Nations:  Tin’s “Pride” at UN Statement on Decriminalisation of Homosexuality.  Louis-Georges Tin, the founder of International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO), told today of “my pride” following the reading of the “Declaration” at the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Dec 18: UK:  Miliband Backs UN Statement and Pledges Continuing Support for Gay and Transgender People Worldwide.  The United Kingdom will continue to work towards ending the discrimination of gay and bisexual men and women – and transgender people –  around the world, Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary David Miliband pledged this morning.
Dec 17: Belarus, Russia, European Union:  Euro MPs Get Tough Over Lack of Gay Rights in Russia and Belarus.  Three MEPs from the ALDE (Liberal Democrat) group have tabled questions to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barruso asking about the lack of gay rights in Russia and Belarus - and they are demanding answers.
Dec 16: USA:  Gay is NOT the New Black.  Commentary by Rev. Irene Monroe.  If you are African American and gay, and fighting alongside your white LGBTQ brothers and sisters for queer civil rights, the notion that “Gay is the new black” is not only absurdly arrogant, it is also dangerously divisive.  In a presumably “post-racial” era with the country’s first African American president-elect, it’s easy for some to assume that race doesn’t matter.
Dec 16: The Baltic States:  First-Ever Baltic Gay Pride to be Staged in Riga.  Three LGBT organisations in the Baltic States will join together in May next year to stage the first-ever joint Gay Pride.  The Pride event, set for May 15 to 17 in Riga, is aimed at drawing attention to the situation for LGBT people in the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – and encouraging people of different sexual orientation to celebrate diversity and Baltic unity.
Dec 16: Russia:  An Attempt to Restore the Memory of Soviet Gays When Today Russian Gays Are Still Persecuted.  Commentary by Alexey Davydov.  I recently came across the following initiative in my country: “2009 is named in Russia the year of gay and lesbian victims of political repressions of Soviet times”.  The idea is about calling on the Russian government to apologise publicly in front of the sexual minorities who were prosecuted during the Soviet era.
Dec 16: Hungary:  Hungarian Gays Not Dejected by Court Ruling Outlawing Registered Partnerships.  Set-back?  Yes.  Disaster?  No.  That is the verdict of gay activists in Hungary following yesterday’s pronouncement by the Hungarian Constitutional Court that the law granting registered partnerships to both same-sex and opposite-sex couples was unconstitutional.
Dec 10: Russia:  Moscow Mayor Publicly Admits He Limited the Right of Gays to Freedom of Expression.  Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said today that representatives of sexual minorities would be welcomed in Moscow for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.
Dec 9: Russia:  Liski Authorities React to Gay Picket with Pressure, Threats and Arrests.  The authorities in Liski, 650 south of Moscow  in Voronezh region of Russia, got tough yesterday with the organisers of a proposed youth picket in the city on December 12, Constitution Day.
Dec 4: Gibraltar:  Alvarez Hails Gay Rights Court Decision as “Important”.  Equality Rights Group chairman, Felix Alvarez, has welcomed yesterday’s High Court judgment concerning the right to joint housing tenancy of a Gibraltarian lesbian couple.
Dec 3: Russia:  Support for Slavic Gay Pride in Moscow from IDAHO Founder.  Louis-Georges Tin, the founder of the International Day Against Homophobia and president of IDAHO French Committee, has said that he fully supports the staging of Slavic Gay Pride in Moscow next year on the day of Eurovision song contest final in mid May – and that he plans to part.
Dec 3: United Nations/France:  From an Arrest in Paris During a Gay Rights Demo, Via a French Minister, to the United Nations.  The unsung hero of next week’s UN anti-homophobia resolution and his significant role.
Dec 2: Russia:  Moscow Court Rules 145 Gay Pride Marches Were Lawfully Banned.  The Moscow City Court today threw-out the appeals by Moscow Gay Pride organisers over the banning of 145 gay human rights marches that were planned for last May.