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JULY 2009
July 31: UK: Quakers’ Decision on Marriage Equality for Gays Is “Courageous”, Says Tatchell. The vote today by the Quakers to open up marriage to same-sex couples, on exactly the same basis as heterosexual couples, is an “honourable, courageous, trail-blazing decision”, gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of LGBT equality group OutRage! said this afternoon.
July 30: Germany: Openly Gay German Green MP Volker Beck Mourns Death of His Partner Jacques Teyssier. Jacques Teyssier, the life partner of Green Member of German Bundestag Volker Beck, died last Saturday of cancer in Berlin.
July 26: Denmark: Two Held Following Assault of Three Visiting Men to Gay Sports Event in Copenhagen. Police are treating assaults on three foreign men in the city centre last night as ‘hate crimes’. Two men were detained by police in the early hours of this morning following assaults on three men – from England, Norway and Sweden – who are visiting Copenhagen for World Outgames, Berlingske Tidende is reporting today.
July 24: Russia: Moscow Court Rules Slavic Gay Pride Ban in May Was Lawful. The Tverskoi District Court of Moscow today dismissed the complaint by the organisers of Slavic Gay Pride against the decision of Moscow authorities to ban the march in support for tolerance and respect for the rights and freedoms of homosexual people in Russia and Belarus.
July 23: UK: Exorcism of Gays in the UK: Call to Protest Against Abuse by Fundamentalist Christians. A gay human rights campaigner today called for a police investigation following revelations in a newspaper that ‘gay exorcisms’ are being carried out in UK Christian churches.
July 22: Belarus: Twenty-Five Copies of American Gay Magazine Pride Seized by Belarus Customs. Customs officials in Belarus have seized 25 copies of the magazine Pride, which is published by the international Pride group InterPride whose membership includes Project GayBelarus.
July 18: Eastern Europe: Activism from ‘Inside the Closet’ Can Be Disastrous for Gay Movement. Commentary by Nikolai Baev. The bitter fruits of ‘quiet lobbying’ surfaced earlier this week in Lithuania and Ukraine.
July 16: Gibraltar: Gays Welcome Gibraltar Government Court Move but Warn the Matter ‘May Not End There’. News that the Government intends to seek a ‘declaratory ruling’ from the Supreme Court over the constitutionality of the unequal age of consent under Gibraltar law was welcomed today by the equality rights group GGR.
July 16: Europe: Sudden Departure of Executive Director at Top European Gay NGO. Dirk De Meirleir has left has position of executive director of the Brussels-based ILGA-Europe, it emerged last night.
July 15: USA: Religion: Let the Episcopal Church Say ‘Amen
July 15: Lithuania: Lithuanian Anti Gay Law Puts New President in Impossible Position. Within days of taking office, Lithuania’s new President, Dalia Grybauskaitė, finds herself in an impossible situation over the draconic new law passed by the country’s Seimas yesterday – Law on the Protection of Minors Against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information.
July 14: UK: Peter Tatchell: Equality Bill Discriminates – Gays Excluded from Anti-Harassment Clauses. Commentary by Peter Tatchell. The Equality Bill should be renamed the Inequality Bill. While other vulnerable groups are protected against harassment, protection is denied to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. We are explicitly excluded from the anti-harassment clauses of the Bill.
July 14: Lithuania: Seimas Overturns Presidential Veto of Legislation Banning ‘Gay Propaganda’. The Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament) this morning voted to overturn the Presidential veto on the controversial Law on the Protection of Minors Against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information. Deputies voted 87 to six – with 25 abstentions – to over-rule the President. The law is expected to come into force on March 1 next year.
July 13: European Union: Buzek Pledges Support for Rights of Gay and Transgender Men and Women – and Pride Marches
July 12: European Union: Homophobic Former Polish Prime Minister Is Front-Runner for European Parliament President. Analysis. Former Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek, now a member of the ruling Civic Platform party in Poland, looks set to become the President of the European Parliament when MEPs assemble in Strasbourg next week for the first plenary session of the new Parliament. He has emerged as the leading contender following political ‘wheeling and dealing’ in the corridors of Brussels.
July 12: United Kingdom: Cashman and Tatchell Lead Gay Humanist 30th Birthday Celebrations. Over 120 people crowded into London's Bishopsgate Institute on Friday to celebrate the 30th birthday of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA).
July 12: United Kingdom: Queer Youth Network Slams Tabloid’s Transphobia. On the eve of this year’s “Sparkle”, the national transgender celebration in Manchester, the UK’s national LGBT youth organisation, Queer Youth Network has lodged a formal complaint with the Press Complaints Commission after its members sent dozens of letters by outraged young people and parents outraged at a recent article in The Sun newspaper attacking a young transsexual person, labelling her as “misguided”.
July 7: United Kingdom/Poland: Polish PiS Party Will Not Apologise to Gays for Its Homophobia. Commentary. The recent statement by William Hague, a former leader of the British Conservatives, that his party’s new political allies in the European Parliament, the Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS) had moderated their views on gays and gay rights has been dismissed in Poland.
July 7: Cuba: Big Strides in Gay and Transgender Rights in Cuba, Mariela Castro Tells London Audience. Cuba has made big strides on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights in recent years, Mariela Castro told an audience at the Barbican Centre cinema on Saturday evening.
July 5: United Kingdom: Tatchell Urges Anti-Gay Bishop to “Repent His Homophobia”. Gay and lesbian human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell today hit out at the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, who suggested to a Sunday newspaper that gays and lesbians should “repent and change”.
July 4: United Kingdom: "This Is a Wonderful Festival of Equality" ─ Mariela Castro on Gay Pride in London. Cuban President's daughter takes part in parade watched by a million.
July 4: United Kingdom: Pride London in Photos. 80 photos of the parade and 11 in Trafalgar Square.
July 2: United Kingdom: Tatchell to March with Sarah Brown in London’s Gay Pride
July 2: United Kingdom: TUC Warns Spread of Far Right Across Europe Could Increase Gay Hate Crimes. Hate crimes against gay men and women could increase in the European Union following the spread of ‘far right’ political parties in last month’s European elections, the TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned this morning. Mr. Barber was addressing the 12th annual TUC LGBT conference in London.
