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Feb 26: Russia:  US State Department Criticises Russia for Breaches of Human Rights of Gays.  Russia is condemned for breaches of human rights in the US State Department’s annual Human Rights Report, published yesterday.  And human rights for gay men and women are highlights by the cases of continued bans on Moscow Gay Pride.  The report also criticises other countries, like Serbia and Nigeria, for their attitudes towards gays.
Feb 26: Poland:  Polish Gay Media Unite at Warsaw ‘Summit’.  Guest commentary by Łukasz Pałucki.  Last Sunday, for the first time in the history of Polish gay media, the owners of leading gay Internet portals and gay media publishers met in Warsaw at the invitation of Slawek Starosta.
Feb 25: UK:  Immigration Minister Praises Gay Labour Campaign to ban Godhatesfags.com Creator.  Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas MP, today publicly thanked the LGBT Labour for their campaign against the homophobic group, Westboro Baptist Church.  The campaign led to the ban on Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper from entering the UK by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Feb 24: USA:  TWO Demands Family Policy Council of West Virginia Take Down Sniper Ad.   An online video ad The Family Policy Council of West Virginia that compares same-sex marriage supporters with snipers targeting families has been targeted by Truth Wins Out (TWO) which is calling for video to be removed.
Feb 23: UK:  Evangelical Christians Call for Change of Attitude on Gays.  Several groups of UK evangelical Christians who believe that the churches need a positive change of heart and mind on the issue of homosexuality have called on church organisations condemning an American anti- gay hate group to face up to their own discriminatory policies and behaviour.
Feb 23: France:  Paris Set to Host World Congress Against Homophobia in May.  A world congress against homophobia is set to be held in Paris in May, it emerged last night.  The proposal for the congress, UK Gay News has been told, was made by Rama Yade, the French minister for human rights.
Feb 22: Belarus:  Denied the Right to Peaceful Assembly in Gomel, Gays Take Matter to Court.  Gay activists in Gomel have filed a complaint in the courts following the refusal of the city authorities to permit a rally earlier this month.  It is thought that the case is the first in Belarus that addresses the constitutional right to freedom of assembly of the LGBT community.
Feb 21: UK:  World-Wide Gay Lesbian Transgender Community to Get Original Online TV and Radio Programming.  One of the world’s first original online programming platforms is to be fully launched later this year for the international LGBT market.  Fruit TV will provide original and entertaining TV and radio programmes aimed at the global gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community and will include a rich variety of appointment to view programming – all exclusively online and all for free.
Feb 21: USA:  South Carolina ‘So Gay’ Pride Releases Annual Report.  The board of the South Carolina Pride Movement says 2008 was “the year that was so gay.”  The group released its 2008 annual report on Feb. 13, detailing the year’s events, successes and the financial health of the organisation.
Feb 20: Colombia:  Gay Life in Colombia: An Interview with Marcela Sánchez of Colombia Diversa.  Marcela Sánchez is the executive director of the gay and lesbian rights organisation Colombia Diversa.  Following a landmark Constitutional Court ruling in favour of civil unions for same-sex couples, she spoke with the City Paper editor Andrew Dier.  The interview appears in the February edition of The City Paper.
Feb 20: USA:  New Publication Offers Legal Options to Those Hurt By Ex-Gay Programmes.  A landmark publication that aims to educate victims of “ex-gay” programmes of their legal options has been published today by Truth Wins Out (TWO) and Lambda Legal.
Feb 18: Luxembourg:  Luxembourg Could Become Sixth Country to Recognise IDAHO.  Luxembourg could become the latest country to recognise International Day Against Homophobia, held each year on May 17 – the day when in 1990 the World Health Organization decided to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders.
Feb 17: UK:  UK ID Card Plans Put Transgender People in Danger, Say Greens.  Brighton Green Party councillor Vicky Wakefield-Jarret has today warned that Government’s proposals for ID cards risk increasing transphobia, and could pose a threat to the safety of transgender people.
Feb 16: Europe:  Tin Joins Activists at UN to Press for Gay Rights in Russia, Belarus.  Louis-Georges Tin, the president of the International Day Against Homophobia committee, joined gay activists from Russia and Belarus today at the United Nations to press for gay human rights in the two countries.
Feb 16: Nigeria:  Denial of a Gay Community in Nigeria Is “Economical With the Truth”, Say Young Humanistas.  The Young Humanistas Network in Nigeria described today the remarks of Ojo Madueke, Nigeria’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, denying the existence of a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in the country as being “economical with the truth”.
Feb 15: Europe:  Luxembourg Greens Back Gay Rights in Russia, Belarus.  A Green Party member of the Luxembourg legislature has pledged to continue his pressure on the Council of Europe to firmly address the problem of the lack of human rights of gay men and women in Russia.
Feb 14: Europe:  Gay Activists Protest Inaction of European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg Demo.  A group of fifty activists from France and eastern Europe has called on the European ‘institutions’ to force the authorities in Russia and Belarus to respect their commitment to the European Convention of Human Rights and let LGBT people enjoy the rights that others have.
Feb 12: Europe:  Russian, Belarusian Gay Activists Launch Brussels Campaign for Freedom of Assembly.  Gay activists from Russia and Belarus were pleased following a day of meetings in Brussels yesterday with European Union officials and a small group of European MPs.
Feb 12: UK:  Gays to Support London Demonstration for a Secular Europe.  Simultaneous protests demanding that the Vatican end its interference in Italian, European Union and world-wide politics are being staged in London and Rome on Saturday (February 14).
Feb 12: The Vatican:  Gay and Feminist Issues: What’s Wrong With the Vatican.  Guest commentary by Marco Tranchino and Serena Bassi.  This tiny State inhabited mainly by priests is extremely powerful and its “moral” crusades adversely affect the lives of millions of people in Europe and in the world.  Officially part of the UN, its “observer-state” status means it engages in UN debates on a variety of issues ranging from favourites, such as birth control, abortion and homosexuality, to the environment, war and global trade.
Feb 11: UK:  Gay Iranian Woman Wins Battle to Stay in UK as Refugee.  Pegah Emambakhsh, the gay Iranian woman who in 2007 was within hours of being deported from UK as a failed refugee seeker, can now stay in the UK, it was revealed last night.
Feb 7: USA:  Ted ‘I’m not Gay’ Haggard: Issues With His Homosexuality.  After a publicity junket promoting the HBO documentary, The Trials of Ted Haggard, which landed him on Oprah and Larry King Live, fallen evangelical star Haggard has risen from public obscurity to tell us he’s not gay.  He’s “heterosexual with issues.”
Feb 6: Russia:  Gay Activists Ask Russia to End Ban on HIV+ Foreigners Entering Country.  A group of Russian gay activists launched today a campaign demanding their government to stop requesting foreign visa applicants for their HIV status.
Feb 5: Global:  Search for the Most Gay Friendly Company in the World.  Major international companies and corporations are being invited by the International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (IGLCC) to participate in the first world-wide survey that will result in an International Business Equality Index.
Feb 4: UK:  Mayor at Blackpool Gay Pride Launch Event.  Close on 400 revellers packed Blackpool’s Mardi Gras last week to launch programme of event’s leading up to the town’s Gay Pride in May.
Feb 4: UK:  Ninety-One Years Old Plymouth Lesbian Looks Back on Gay, Equal Rights Struggle.  One of Plymouth’s oldest lesbians will talk about growing up in the days when homosexuality was a crime, at the launch of a celebration of the city’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans community.
Feb 4: UK:  Gay Group to Celebrate Darwin Day With Re-enactment of Famous 19th Century Debate.  A recreation of an explosive debate at Oxford University in 1860 is one of the highlights when the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) mark the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin at a special event on the evening of February 13.
Feb 3: Russia:  “Axios, Axios, Axios”: a New Anti-Gay Leader of Russian Orthodox Church.  “Axios, Axios, Axios”. chanted 4,000 guests in the Moscow Cathedral of the Christ Saviour at the ceremony which made Metropolitan Kirill the new Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Feb 2: UK:  Pride London Asks: “What has Gay Pride Ever Done for You?”  Pride London has today launched a search to find those people who’s lives have been changed by Pride events to act as ‘ambassadors’ for Pride London 2009.
Feb 2: Europe:  How Interested are Euro-Liberals and Liberal International in Gay Rights?  Commentary by P.A. Alain.  People who are taking other people to the gay parade are provocateurs – so declared a Russian politician in 2006 on the eve of the first Gay Pride in Russia’s Capital City. While such statements are often a custom among Russian politicians, it happens that the author of these words was Sergey Mitrokhin, a member of the Moscow City Duma, who became president last June of the Russian political party Yabloko – a party whose aim is to stand for European and political values.