Jan 30:  UK:  Gay Bashing: First UK Government Guidance for Schools Launched by Minister.  The first-ever national guidance from the UK Government to help schools tackle homophobic bullying has been launched by a Government minister.
Jan 29:  UK:  Retro Homos Are Back in Style – For Lesbian, Gay History Month.  To celebrate LGBT History Month in February the men of Manchester’s Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF) are developing as much testosterone as they can muster to develop a more hirsute look in order to raise funds for the charity.
Jan 26:  USA:  South Carolina Democratic Presidential Primary Booms for Gay, Lesbian Voters.  The successes of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Democrats in South Carolina in the run-up to today’s presidential primary has been recognised by the National Stonewall Democrats.
Jan 25:  Russia:  Third Moscow Pride To Be Staged at End of May.  Moscow authorities hint city’s Mayor to impose ban again. The organising committee of Moscow Gay Pride officially revealed their plans yesterday, and confirmed that the event will take place on May 30 and 31.  It will be the third Pride in the Russian capital.
Jan 25:  UK:  Gay Youth Group Calls for Boycott of International Bus Group Stagecoach.  The Queer Youth Network (QYN) is calling for a boycott of public transport run by the British-based Stagecoach Group, which has operations throughout the UK – and in the USA and Canada.
Jan 24:  Latvia:  Euro Court Ruling on Gay Adoption “Unjustified and Unacceptable”, Says Latvian First Party.  The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights earlier this week that exclusion of gay men and women from the application process was discriminatory and therefore in conflict with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms has been attacked by the First Party of Latvia and Latvia’s Way (LPP/LC) parties.
Jan 24:  Russia/USA:  Russian Gay Activist Honoured at International Mr. Gay in Hollywood.  Next year’s International Mr. Gay will have a contestant from Russia.  That was the pledge given at the weekend by Nikolai Alexeyev in Los Angeles.
Jan 23:  UK  ‘Corinthian Spirit’ As Scotland’s First Gay Football Team Taken to Task in First Game.  In an age where winning is the only thing, it is refreshing to hear of a sporting encounter at the weekend that, in many ways, turned back the clock 100 years or more to the days where it was that taking part that was all-important – the “Corinthian Spirit”.   The encounter last weekend was the very first football match in Scotland to be played by a “gay” football club, HotScots.  History will record that final score line will suggest a somewhat one-sided game, with Haddington Select winning 9-0.
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Jan 23:  Poland:  Polish Politicians Dismiss European Court Ruling on Gay Adoption.  While gay men and women welcomed this weeks ruling by the European Court of Human Rights on adoption by gay men and women, Polish politicians have effectively said that they would take no notice of what the Grand Chamber of Europe’s highest court has said.
Jan 23:  Gibraltar:  UK MPs to Examine Gibraltar Abuses Against Gays, Disabled.  UK MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee are examining a report on human rights violations in Gibraltar, it was learned today.
Jan 23:  UK:  Former Top Gay Cop to Join Police Officers on Pay March Protest.  London Liberal Democrat Mayoral Candidate Brian Paddick, who was the most senior openly gay police officer in the UK until he retired last summer, will be joining the Police Federation march through central London today to demonstrate against the Government’s refusal to honour the police pay award.
Jan 22:  USA:  Lesbian Cop’s Dying Wish Granted by Hollywood.  A dying wish of Lt. Laurel Hester was that the documentary film made of her last days as she battled against cancer – and the ‘freeholders’ of Ocean County in New Jersey – would be able to compete for an ‘Oscar’.
Jan 22:  Europe:  Exclusion of Gays, Lesbians from Adoption Process Breaks European Law – Court.  The European Court of Human Rights has ruled today that gay men and women are eligible to eligible to adopt children.
Jan 18:  Kuwait:  Arrests Target Transgender People.  Authorities should immediately release more than a dozen persons jailed under Kuwait’s new dress-code law, Human Rights Watch said today. The law, approved by the National Assembly on December 10, 2007, criminalizes people who “imitate the appearance of the opposite sex.”  الكويت: قانون التشبه بالجنس الآخر القمعي يشجع على انتهاكات الشرطة
Jan 18:  UK:  Welsh Gay Group Disbands.  The Rainbow Project South Wales has been disbanded, it was announced yesterday.
Jan 17:  UK:  HotScots Take On The Locals in Scotland’s First Football Match Involving Gay Team.  Scotland’s first ‘gay’ football club will be playing their debut match on Saturday when they take-on Haddington Select on Saturday.
Jan 16:  Belarus:  KGB and Militia Raid Apartment of Gay TV Journalist.  From a Special Correspondent in Belarus.  Openly gay television journalist Siarhei Padsasonny was alone in his apartment in Valatauskaya Street, Gomel, on Saturday evening.  There was a knock on the door.
Jan 16:  Lithuania:  Now Lithuania Faces Council of Europe Censure Over Gay Issues in Vilnius.  The Lithuanian Government faces censure over three breaches of the European Convention of Human Rights concerning gay issues in the past year.
Jan 15:  Latvia:  Lawmaker’s Assistant Convicted of Throwing Faeces at Riga Gay Pride.  An assistant to one of the members of the Latvian Saeima (Parliament) was found guilty today in a criminal case of “hooliganism” during the Riga Gay Pride in 2006 when participants had excrement thrown at them.
Jan 15:  Gibraltar/UK:  Council of Europe Publishes Gibraltar Gay Discrimination Issue.  The official website of the Council of Europe has published the question tabled by UK Liberal Democrat MP Michael Hancock for reply by the Committee of Ministers regarding discrimination of gays in Gibraltar.
Jan 14:  Hungary:  Gays, Lesbians, Bi, Transgender People Are Discriminated Against in Hungary – Report.  Hungarian LGBT people who openly declare their sexual orientation face discrimination, a report by Patent Association concludes.
Jan 14:  UK:  Citizens Advice Sponsors Lesbian, Gay History Month.  Citizens Advice, the national network of charities which features in the top 25 of Stonewalls’s ‘Workplace Diversity Champions 2008’, today announced sponsorship of LGBT History Month in February 2008 throughout the UK.
Jan 14:  UK:  Paddick: I Will Cut Crime in London by 20%, Or Not Stand Again.  Speaking at the launch of his Mayoral Campaign in Brixton Town Hall today, openly gay Liberal Democrat Mayoral Candidate Brian Paddick pledged to put cutting crime in London at the heart of his bid to win the mayoral race.
Jan 11:  Russia:  Russian Gay Activists Detained at Duma Elections Last Month Found Not Guilty in Court.  The 13 gay activists arrested in a Moscow polling station on December 2 during the Russian state Dumas election for “protest voting”, were acquitted today by a judge.
Jan 10:  UK:  London’s Gay Pride Celebrations To Be Bigger in 2008.  London will again send out a message to the world through it’s annual Gay Pride that it is a diverse capital city that is a safe place for gay men and women to live or to visit.
Jan 10:  Gibraltar:  GGR Takes Gay Discrimination Violations to Council of Europe.  Equality Rights Group GGR has taken the issues of Gibraltar’s unequal age of consent and discriminatory sexual offences legislation to the Council of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
Jan 9:  UK:  HIV Prevention Funding for Gay Men in London Still in Doubt.  A thirty-six percent cut in National Health Service (NHS) funding for HIV prevention work among gay men in London has been attacked  today by gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of Outrage!
Jan 5:  USA:  Gay-Friendly Greens Announce First US Presidential Debate.  The first, and only, live debate between candidates on the Green Party’s California ballot for President of the United States – featuring a former Democratic Party member of Congress, consumer protection icon, professor and environmental engineer – is scheduled for San Francisco next weekend, said John Morton of the Green Party Presidential Debate Committee.
Jan 4:  Iran:  Two Youths To Be Executed in Iran for Possible ‘Gay’ Rape?  Commentary.  Unconfirmed reports coming from Iran suggest that two youths are facing brutal execution in the southern city of Shiraz.
Jan 4:  UK:  Amnesty Demands Release of Six Facing Jail for Being Presumed to be Gay.  Amnesty International today called on its 2.2 million members worldwide to write to the Moroccan authorities demanding the release of six men who are facing jail because of their presumed sexuality.
Jan 2:  UK:  Leading Mobile Telecommunications Company Deems UK Gay News to Have ‘Adult Content’.  Commentary.  The world’s leading mobile telecommunications company considers UK Gay News and at least one other gay news website to have “adult” content and is barring access, it has emerged.
Jan 2:  USA:  Writers at New England’s Premier Gay Newspaper Step Down.  Four long-time contributors to IN Newsweekly, including former editor Fred Kuhr, have either formally resigned or stopped contributing to the newspaper after the new publisher repeatedly failed to pay them in a timely manner and ignored concerns over its new editorial direction.