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JANUARY 2009

Jan 29: UK:  London’s New Police Chief Soft on Homophobia, Claims Gay Activist.  Commentary by Peter Tatchell.  The new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has a sometimes poor record when it comes to tackling homophobia and supporting the LGBT community.
Jan 29: Honduras:  MEPs Request the European Union to Act in Protection of Transgender People in Honduras.  Sixteen members of the European Parliament have today sent a Parliamentary Question to the European Commission and the European Council expressing their concerns about recent murders of transgender people in Honduras and particularly the human rights defender Cynthia Nicole Moreno.
Jan 28: Russia:  Russian Gay Activists Send Their Sixth Application to the European Court of Human Rights.  Organisers of Moscow Gay Pride yesterday sent their sixth complaint to the European Court of Human Rights concerning the denial by the Moscow authorities of the right to demonstrate and freedom of assembly.
Jan 28: Iceland:  Brief Biography: Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, World’s First Openly Gay Prime Minister?  When the Icelandic Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, became a front-runner for the country’s Prime Minister yesterday, it was world news.
Jan 25: Lebanon:  Outrage as Two Gay Men Beaten by Lebanese Army in Achrafieh.  The gay community in Lebanon is angry this weekend.  And so are human rights groups, according to two local French language web sites.  The anger is over the savage public beating of two men by soldiers in Sassine Square, Achrafieh in eastern part of Beirut, on Thursday evening.
Jan 25: Russia/Europe:  Gay Rights: Why Does Europe Allow Russia to Pick and Choose on Human Rights?  Commentary by Teo Valenti.  Russian gay activists are pugnacious.  They do not give up.  While their country systematically bans any of their public action for at least 3 years in a row, they keep fighting.  And not only in the streets.  Over the last weeks, they launched their new battle within Europe’s top diplomatic circle.  Last December, they opened the first front in Brussels.  At their request, three Members of the European Parliament asked the European Commission whether it raised the issue of Human Rights violation and more specifically LGBT Rights with the Russian President during the EU-Russia summit of November.  The answer, apparently, is still to come.
Jan 24: Middle East/Africa:  Arrests After ‘Gay Swoops’ in Bahrain, Egypt and Morocco.  A top producer at Egyptian TV and a young man working with the foreign press were among four men arrested in Cairo earlier this month when a “network of homosexuals” was broken up, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission says in a digest of press reports.
Jan 23: Lebanon:  Lebanese Gay Group Helem Wins 2009 Felipa de Souza Award.  Helem, the first organisation in the Arab world to set up a gay and lesbian community centre, has won this year’s Felipa de Souza Award, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) announced today.
Jan 23: Russia:  Russians Reopen Case on Attack Against German MP at Moscow Gay Pride in 2006.  The investigation into the attack on a German parliamentarian during the first Moscow Gay Pride has unexpectedly been re-opened, it emerged this morning.  Volker Beck, an openly gay member of the German Bundestag, was beaten-up in Moscow’s Tverskaya Street in front of Moscow City Hall on May 27, 2006.
Jan 22: UK/Europe:  Labour MEPs Back EU-Wide Gay Partnership Recognition.  All 19 of the UK Labour Party MEPs have signed a declaration pushing for an EU-wide agreement on the recognition of same-sex partnerships.
Jan 21: Iran:  Iranian Media Reports On Gay, Lesbian Relationships.  A new study by an Iranian University shows that 24% of Iranian women and 16% of Iranian men have had at least one homosexual experience, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said today, citing a published report in Persian on the Ghatreh.com website.
Jan 21: USA:  International Gay Rights Group Gets New Chief.  Cary Alan Johnson was named today as the new executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, the group’s board of directors announced this afternoon.
Jan 21: Nigeria:  Call for Suspension of European Foreign Aid to Nigeria Over New Anti Gay Law.  The European Parliament’s all-party ‘Intergroup’ for gay and lesbian rights is calling on the European Commission to suspend foreign aid to Nigeria following the country’s move to ban same-sex marriage.
Jan 20: Senegal:  Jailing of Gay Activists Sets Back AIDS Fight.  International AIDS organisations have condemned the imprisonment of nine Senegalese AIDS activists for their sexual orientation, saying it threatens to reverse gains made in Senegal’s fight against HIV.  The men, who were involved in providing HIV prevention, care and treatment services to Senegal’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, have been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Jan 20: Russia/Canada:  Canadian University, Russian Activists Partner to Research Freedom of Assembly for Gays.  When a professor of the Carleton University in Ottawa wanted to give an LGBT dimension to her course on International Human Rights Law, she could not miss the awkward situation that gay activists face in Russia.
Jan 20: Serbia:  Transsexual Murdered in Belgrade.  A transsexual person was found dead in her flat in Belgrade at the weekend, the Serbian LGBT group Queeria told UK Gay News last night.
Jan 17: UK:  Mujahideen Killing Young Gays in Ja’ar, Says Yemeni Underground Group.  The three young men executed last month in Ja’ar, a town in the Abyan province of Yemen, were gay, dissidents in the Arabian peninsula’s only republic claim.
Jan 14: UK:  Leading Gay Activist: Prince Harry Not Homophobic.  Amid all the fury over the video footage of Prince Harry filmed three years ago during Army training – and which got into the hands of the tabloid News of the World, the Prince, who is third in line to the British monarchy, has an unlikely defender.  Gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of Outrage! spoke today of the media fury over the Prince ...
Jan 13: UK:  Same Sex Marriage Ban Must Be Lifted, Say Scottish Gays.  A petition has been launched today calling on the Scottish Parliament to amend the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 to allow gay and lesbian couples to legally marry.
Jan 12: Belarus:  Belarusian Army Will Not Now Call-up Openly Gay Activist for Military Duty.  The openly gay editor-in-chief of the largest Belarusian LGBT site Gay.by, Alexander Paluyan, will not now be conscripted into the Belarus army.
Jan 11: Poland:  Polish Politician to Former Polish Prime Minister: Are You Gay?  It has to be one of the most startling Polish political blogs of all-time.  A politician publicly asking the former Prime Minister if he is gay.
Jan 11: Russia:  Gay Rights in Russia: European Parliament Says All Human Rights Integral to EU-Russia Relations. GayRussia.ru Commentary.  In a resolution on democracy and human rights adopted unanimously at the end of the Strasbourg plenary session last December, the European Parliament firmly condemned attacks on human rights defenders in Russia.
Jan 9: Senegal:  Free Gay, Aids Activists, Demands Human Rights Watch.  The sentencing in Dakar on January 6 of nine men who were involved in HIV-prevention work, on charges of “indecent and unnatural acts” and “forming associations of criminals,” shows how laws against homosexual conduct damage HIV and Aids-prevention efforts as well as the work of human rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said today.
Jan 8: UK:  Blackpool Pride Is on the Move into Heart of Gay Village.  Gay Pride in Blackpool is set to relocate its ‘main event’ this year to Dickson Road in the heart of the town’s ‘Gay Village’.  The move, seen by the organising committee as “unprecedented”, has preliminary backing of the local town council.
Jan 8: USA:  Seminaries Failing to Prepare Clergy to Address ‘Gay’ Issues.  Seminaries and rabbinical schools in the United States are failing to prepare the next generation of clergy with the training they need to address sexuality issues in ministry, according to a study released today by the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing and Union Theological Seminary.
Jan 7: UK:  Gay Humanists Group Celebrates 30th Anniversary.  The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) will be celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year with a series of special public meetings – and an exhibition of its work launched in July at the Bishopsgate Institute in Central London.
Jan 7: Serbia:  Serbian, Croatian Celebrities for Gay Rights in Queeria Calendar.  Celebrities, human rights and gay rights activists have joined forces for the 2009 Queeria calendar – the title this year is “Dreams”.
Jan 6: UK:  Football and Gays: Latest –  FA 1, Homophobia 0.  ‘Kick It Out’ campaign embracing homophobia widely welcome.
Jan 6: UK:  BBC Television Insults Lindsay Lohan, Samantha Ronson with Anti Lesbian Slurs.  A repeat screening of the controversial BBC 3 television show The Most Annoying People of 2008 should be edited or even cancelled, Peter Tatchell of the gay rights group Outrage! said this morning.
Jan 4: Belarus:  Openly Gay Activist and Website Editor Called-Up for Military Service in Homophobic Army.  The editor-in-chief of the largest and most popular LGBT website in Belarus, Gay.by, has been “called-up” for military service.  And in an email to GayRussia.ru, members of the Belarusian Initiative for Sexual and Gender Equality, have expressed their anxiety.
Jan 3: Russia:  2008: Heroes, Homophobes and Top Gay Happenings in Russia – and World-Wide.  For the fourth consecutive year, GayRussia publishes the Top LGBT events that took place during the previous year in Russia and around the world.  In addition, it also names its Man of the Year, the Homophobes of the Year and the Statement of the Year.