July 30: UK:  Greens to Provide Sustainable Solutions at Brighton Gay Pride.  The Green Party will be offering free services at the Gay Pride festival in Preston Park, Brighton, on Saturday.
July 30: UK:  Foyle Gay Pride Launched in Derry by Tatchell, Politician.  The official brochure for Foyle Gay Pride was launched this morning by human rights activist Peter Tatchell and politician Martina Anderson, a member of the Northern Irish Assembly (Parliament).
July 23: Russia:  Gays Ignore Luzhkov Ban on Iranian Embassy Vigil in Moscow.  A small group of gay activists ignored the ban imposed by the homophobic mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, on any form of small organised gathering outside the Iran Embassy in the city last Saturday, the third anniversary of the execution of the two gay teenagers.
July 23: Africa:  Gay in Africa: When Homophobia Fuels the Spread of HIV.  The persistent and increasing outbreaks of violence against members of the gay community in Africa are jeopardising efforts undertaken to combat HIV, both within this group and across the population as a whole, Aids activists warned at a recent meeting in Limb, Cameroon.
July 22: USA/UK:  South Carolina ‘So Gay’ Campaign: Who Really Did What?  There was further intrigue in the ongoing saga over the ‘So Gay’ poster campaign on two London Underground stations that the South Carolina Parks Recreation and Tourism (SCPRT) Department has been involved in during the past two weeks, it emerged this evening.
July 22: Russia:  Fourth Moscow Gay Pride to Take Place on ‘Eurovision Day’ in Russia’s Capital.  Next year’s Moscow Pride is set to be staged on May 16 – the same day as the Eurovision song  contest finals and the day before International Day Against Homophobia.
July 17: USA/UK:  South Carolina ‘Will Be So Gay’ Campaign Launched Today.  The Board of the South Carolina Pride Movement has decided to raise the $5,000 necessary to pay the debt owed by the state for the “South Carolina is so gay” ads created for London Gay Pride Week.
July 16: UK:  Cheltenham’s Everyman Goes Gay and has a ‘Beautiful’ Sell-Out.  Theatre review.  This week, the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham goes into ‘new territory’ with its very first offering of an overtly “gay-themed” production.  And if the management had any fears about selling seats, they were unfounded – the five-day run is a sell-out.
July 14: USA/UK:  Gay Travel Advertising Campaign in London Upsets South Carolina Politicians.  American politicians overseeing the body responsible for South Carolina tourism have come down against an advertising campaign currently running in the UK directed towards lesbian and gay travellers.
July 14: Russia:  Moscow Authorities Ban Gay Demonstration at Iran Embassy.  A planned demonstration denouncing executions of gays and minors in Iran in front of its embassy in Moscow planned for Saturday has been banned by the Prefecture of the Central Administrative Area of Moscow.  Officials at the Prefecture said today that they are unable to provide security during the event at which around 30 activists were expected.
July 9: Hungary:  Hungary Referred to European Commission Following Budapest Gay Pride Violence.  There has been condemnation from Members of the European Parliament following the violence at Budapest Gay Pride at the weekend.  Even a Hungarian MEP, Katalin Lévai, experienced first-hand the violence when she was attacked during the parade, it has emerged.
July 8: Russia:  Moscow Court Rules Russian President Immune From Gays.  The Tverskoi District Court of Moscow has refused to consider the complaint lodged with the court by the organisers of Moscow Gay Pride against the inaction of the Russian President, Dmitriy Medvedev, following the request to stage their Pride march on May 31at Alexandrovskiy Sad within the Kremlin.
July 7: UK:  Minister of Equalities Jeered at London’s Gay Pride.  Harriet Harman MP, government minister of equalities and deputy leader of the Labour Party, was booed and heckled as she spoke from the main stage at the gay Pride London celebrations in Trafalgar Square on Saturday afternoon.
July 7: UK:  Voices of Gay School Children Must Be Heard – Nick Clegg.  The Government should be made to face up to the true extent of homophobia in schools, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said today.
July 7: Gibraltar:  Gibraltar Gays Welcome UK Parliament Report.  Equality rights group GGR has today welcomed the publication of a report by the UK parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee at Westminster into issues affecting the Overseas Territories.
July 6: Hungary:  Budapest Gay Pride: A Demonstration of Solidarity.  Braving threats of violence from neo-Nazis and other ultra right wing groups, some 1,500 people turned up at the Budapest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pride March yesterday to express their will to live in a country where the rights of LGBT people – and other minorities – are respected.
July 5: UK:  Stonewall Staff Visit Prime Minister to Mark Gay Pride in London.  Stonewall staff, accompanied by the charity’s co-founder Sir Ian McKellen, visited British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for half an hour this morning.
July 5: UK:  Amnesty to Stage Mock ‘Eurovision’ at Gay Pride in London.  Members of Amnesty International will join the annual Gay Pride parade in London today and stage a mock ‘Eurovision’ contest – on a huge float featuring a giant scoreboard and music.
July 4: UK:  Gay Nigerian Davis Mac-Iyalla Freed.  The gay Nigerian Christian lay preacher Davis Mac-Iyalla has been freed by the UK Home Office, Peter Tatchell reports.
July 4: UK:  Gay Nigerian Christian Lay Preacher Seeking Refuge in UK Arrested and Incarcerated.  Davis Mac-Iyalla, a leader of Changing Attitude Nigeria, the gay Christian and gay rights movement in Nigeria, has been arrested on the eve of Pride London.
July 4: Europe:  Gay Prides: Budapest Police Face Potential Trouble, While in London It’s Keeping the Traffic Moving.  As police in Budapest brace themselves for threatened disruption of the Hungarian capital’s Gay Pride, politicians in the United Kingdom are lining-up to support Pride London as the Metropolitan Police’s ‘Pride Operation’ centres on how to keep central London’s traffic moving.
July 3: UK:  Reform the Homophobic Refuge System, Gay Activist Tells Trade Unionists.  The British government is being urged to "initiate urgent reforms to the asylum system to end the injustice whereby many genuine gay refugees being sent back to viciously homophobic countries like Iran, Uganda, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Jamaica, Belarus and Saudi Arabia."  The call comes from gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of OutRage!
July 3: UK:  Stonewall Report Gay People Perform Better When They Can Be Themselves.  A pioneering Stonewall report which, for the first time, outlines a compelling business case for good practice around sexual orientation in the workplace, is to be launched by Secretary of State for Business John Hutton later this afternoon in London.
July 3: Hungary:  Another Gay Business Torched in Budapest.  Another gay business in the Hungarian capital has been torched, following a fire in a gay club in the city last week.
July 3: UK:  Gay, Lesbian Equality Education Only Way to Stop Homophobic Bullying, Says TUC Chief.  TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber will today call on the Government to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) equality education in the school curriculum, as the only way to address homophobic bullying in schools.
July 2: European Union:   Gay NGO Welcomes EC’s Single Anti-Discrimination Directive.  The International Lesbian and Gay Association-Europe tonight welcomed the European Commission’s proposal for a single EU-wide anti-discrimination directive announced this morning by Vladimír Špidla, the EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.
July 2: UK:  Gays Condemn New Homophobic Anglican Sect.  “This breakaway Anglican faction is fundamentalist, homophobic and sexist.  It opposes equal rights for women and gay people, and is allied with hard-line church leaders whose bigoted teachings are fuelling anti-gay witch-hunts in many countries.” – Peter Tatchell.
July 2: European Union:   Gays, Lesbians Included in Proposed EC Directive on Discrimination.  The European Commission has today adopted a proposal for a directive which provides for protection from discrimination on a number of grounds, including sexual orientation.
July 1: UK:  Gay Men’s Sex Survey Clarifies Key Targets for HIV Prevention Work.  A report published today clarifies the key groups of gay men who are at highest risk of HIV transmission in the UK.  Multiple Chances reports on the findings from the Gay Men's Sex Survey 2006 which was undertaken by Sigma Research and commissioned by Terrence Higgins Trust.
July 1: European Union:  Gay Euro-Parliament ‘Intergroup’ Welcomes Rights Agency Report on Discrimination.  The call for member states of the European Union to tackle discrimination by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), has been welcomed by the European Parliament’s all-party ‘Intergroup’ for gay and lesbian rights.