January 31:  Sports:  Canada Still Leads USA in Gay Games vs Outgames Match-up.  Canada continues to lead the USA in the ‘battle of the two gay games’ when it comes to registrations of individual participants in the events which are just over six months away.
January 31:  Russia:  Russian Web Sites Claim Moscow Gay Pride Is On Religious Holiday ... But they get dates wrong as they try to whip-up objections.  A number of news internet sites in Russia have started what appears to be a campaign against Moscow’s LGBT Festival and Gay Pride.  Some reports suggest that the festival and Pride Parade will take place on May 24, a day considered as a ‘religious holiday’ in Russia.
January 27:  UK:  Terrence Higgins Trust Offers Gay Sexual Health Info in Gaydar Chatrooms.  The Terrence Higgins Trust is launching a new service from next week when sexual health information will be available to chat room users on one of the world’s largest gay chat site, Gaydar.
January 25:  Russia:  HF Protests the Smear Campaign Against the Moscow Helsinki Group.  An attempt to implicate the Moscow Helsinki Group in alleged British espionage in Russia appears to be part of a general assault on civil society and human rights organizations, according to the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), of which the Moscow Helsinki Group is a founding member.
January 25:  European Union:  IDAHO Praises Euro-Parliament But Says Wording Was Somewhat Evasive.  The committee of the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) has today praised the European Parliament for last week’s resolution on homophobia in the European Union, but at the same time said it was “regrettable” that the wording of one of the clauses of the resolution was “somewhat evasive”.
January 24:  Malta:  Malta’s Busuttil Again Votes Against Gay Rights in Europe.  The Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM) has today express its “disappointment and disbelief” that MEP Dr. Simon Busuttil voted against the homophobia resolution in the European Parliament last week.
January 23:  UK:  UK Muslim Culture Festival Bans Gay Muslims.  The Festival of Muslim Cultures, whose Patron is HRH Prince Charles, has announced that no event involving gay Muslims will be accepted as part of the festival programme.
January 23:  Latvia:  Gays in Europe: Latvian Reaction to Anti-Homophobia Resolution.  Last week, the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning latest wave of homophobia in various member states of the European Union.  Latvia was one of the prime reasons for such resolution, last July the Riga City Council initially gave permission for the “Gay Pride” March.
January 18:  Russia:  Russian President’s Office Shows Interest in Civil Case of Gay Activist.  There are indications that a failed civil court case brought by a gay postgraduate and Lomonosov Moscow State University  has reached the office of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
January 18:  European Union:  The European Parliament: Homophobia in Europe Vote.  UK Gay News has extracted from various official sources the Joint Motion for a Resolution and the actual votes of MEPs on the Resolution so that those interested can read on one page the relevant information on this vital vote to gays and lesbian throughout the European Union.
January 18:  European Union:  European Parliament Votes to Stamp Out Homophobia.  Gays and lesbians throughout the European Union were handed considerable encouragement today as Members of the European Parliament adopted by a substantial majority the joint resolution on ‘Homophobia in Europe’.  The resolution was tabled jointly by the five major political groups.
January 17:  USA:  New US Military Publication Signal Shifting Attitude Toward Gays.  A new four-volume series on the cultural and psychological dimensions of American military life includes, for the first time, a chapter on the open service of gay troops.  The chapter describes social and institutional changes needed to lift the ban on openly gay service members in the U.S. armed forces. 
January 17:  European Union:  European Parliament Homophobia Debate: What MEPs Said.  With almost as many languages as there are member States, it can take weeks for official transcript to be published in each language.  However, the European Parliament press office has made available to UK Gay News “unofficial” excerpts in English of some on the speeches made in other languages.
January 17:  European Union:  European Parliament Homophobia Debate: The Resolution.  Gay men and women across Europe were left with degrees of disappointment last night – as were many MEPs – following the debate on homophobia.  Perhaps it is the actual resolution that will provide the substance to the debate, where MEPs were limited to an average of two minutes each, giving little time for real passion to be expressed by either side.  Here is the full text of the Resolution, a joint motion proposed by five of the largest political groups in Parliament.
January 16:  UK:  Galloway Activist Urges: Assault Tatchell.  A leading member of George Galloway’s Respect Party, Adam Yosef, has urged violence against gay activist and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
January 16:  European Union:  Euro Parliament Debate on Homophobia: A Twisting Commissioner and Frustrated MEPs.  Commentary by Joke Swiebel.  Let’s first count our blessings.  The main political groups have found agreement on a common approach, which apparently includes their shared wish for a broader European legislation which offers equal protection to discrimination on any ground, as well as the need to monitor cases of hate crime in all EU member states.
January 16:  European Union:  I’m Gay, Says MEP in Impassioned Speech to Euro Parliament.  Michael Cashman stood in the European Parliament today and reminded his colleagues:  “I am gay – I’m homosexual”.
January 16:  European Union:  ILGA-Europe Welcomes European Parliament’s Debate on Homophobia.  As MEPs assemble in Strasbourg for their first plenary session of the year, the European off-shoot of the International Lesbian and Gay Association has welcomed this afternoon’s European Parliament debate of a resolution condemning homophobia.: 
January 15:  Estonia:  Tallinn City Councillor and Entertainer Wears “I Hate Gays” T-shirt on Stage.  Tarmo Kruusimägi, a member of the Tallinn City Council’s Committee on Consumers’ Rights and Protection of Children, who’s artistic nickname is ‘Street Cleaner’ has appeared on a stage in a t-shirt with wording “I hate gays”, Delfi.ee reports.
January 15:  Homophobia in the European Union: Two Brits Become IDAHO Ambassadors.  On the eve of the European Parliament’s debate on homophobia, the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) has announced that two Brits, one openly gay and the other heterosexual, has agreed to be “Ambassadors” for the Paris-based organisation.
January 15:  UK:  Report Slams Delivery of Sexual Health to Gays and ‘Straights’ in England.  A hard-hitting report launched yesterday by sexual health charities shows an alarming lack of local National Health Service (NHS) planning to improve sexual health in England, despite considerable central Government funding being made available to do so.
January 14:  Homophobia in the European Union: GALHA Welcomes Its VP’s Fight in Euro Parliament.  The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) has today warmly welcomed the lead taken by its energetic vice-president, Michael Cashman, in fighting the Catholic-inspired homophobia in Eastern European countries.
January 13:  UK/European Union:  Cashman Demands Urgent Action on Plight of Gays in Some EU States.  Labour MEP Michael Cashman (UK, West Midlands) has today expressed his “grave concern” about increasing homophobia in Europe.
January 13:  Estonia:  Homophobic Conservative Outburst Calls for Criminalisation of Gays.  In an amazing homophobic outburst, the Estonian Convervatives Club and its leader Martin Helme have published a statement today which has shocked the country’s gays.
January 11:  UK:  Major Fires Guts Gay Sauna in Manchester.  A gay men’s sauna was gutted in a major fire in Fourways House, city centre, last night.  The fire broke out at the Basement Health Club just after midnight and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service sent “14 pumps and about 70 firefighters” to the blaze.
January 10:  Estonia:  First Test of Tolerance and Common European Values in Estonia for Gays.  Days before Christmas, the Ministry of Social Affairs in Estonia called for a public debate on same-sex relationships.  In many ways, it was a ‘seasonal gift’ to the country’s gay community – but it turned out to be short-lived as Estonia could be heading in the same direction as their Baltic neighbours Latvia and Lithuania.
January 10:  UK:  Gay Cowboy Film’s Million Pound UK Opening.  Brokeback Mountain, the ‘gay cowboy romance’ starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, opened strongly in the United Kingdom last weekend.
January 9:  USA:  Operation ‘Mockingbird’:  County Rallies to Aid Dying Lesbian.  In the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch stands alone to do the right thing.  Today, people across the world are standing with Laurel Hester, a dying lesbian New Jersey police officer, by sending copies of the classic book To Kill a Mockingbird to the officials in Ocean County, who are refusing to grant pension benefits to Hester and her partner Stacie Andree.
January 6:  Jamaica:  Tragic End to Attempted Gay-Bash Attack in Kingston.  A young Jamaican man has died, allegedly after being hounded through the streets of Kingston by a homophobic mob who believed he was gay.
January 6:  USA:  Gay Soldier Attacked at Fort Huachuca is Discharged From US Army.  Kyle Lawson, the 19-year old Army Private who was recently attacked by a fellow soldier who learned Lawson is gay, was discharged yesterday from the Army.
January 6:  Film:  Brokeback Mountain: A Gift of Superb Acting.  By Dan Wentzel.  An openly gay actor in Southern California on "Brokeback Mountain" which open in major UK cities today.
January 5:  Poland:  The “Battle of Poznań”:  Court Dismisses Charges Against Equality March Protesters.  Criminal charges against 53 participants – which included gays and lesbians – in the ‘Equality March’ in Poznań last November have been dropped.
January 4:  UK:  Muslim Leader Urged to Drop Homophobia.  It is sad to see the leader of the Muslim community attacking the gay community, Peter Tatchell of the gay human rights group OutRage! said today following comments made yesterday by a Muslim leader on BBC Radio.
January 3:  Russia:  Gay Pride March in Moscow Will Be Under Watchful Eye of International Community.  Commentary.  The Russian gay and lesbian community are convinced that 2006 will be a watershed year.  Some have said that the projected Moscow Pride – the first-ever in the city – is doomed to failure.  Russia, they say, is just not ready for a “Pride” event, let alone the accompanying “cultural” festival.