June 30:  UK:  Pride London in Pictures.  Five pages of photographs from this afternoon's Pride London parade - a total of 50 pictures.  (Note:  pages might be slow to download on dial-up)
June 29:  World:  Worldwide Gay Ban on Novotel, Accor Hotels Urged By Thai Group.  It was a total shock to hear yesterday, through a Reuters agency report, that a transvestite had been refused entry to the Novotel Hotel in Bangkok.
June 29:  UK:  Amnesty to Stage a Mock Eurovision Song Contest at Gay Pride in London.  A mock Eurovision song contest will be staged tomorrow afternoon though the streets of central London as part of the Pride London gay parade.
June 28:  Russia:  Politician Calls for Criminal Investigation Against Moscow Gay Pride Organiser Following Outing.  Alexander Chuev from the Fair Russia party and deputy in the Russian State Duma, said last night that he had complained to the General Prosecutor about his ‘outing’ as a gay politician on live television last week.
June 28:  UK:  TUC Boss Pledges to Continue Fight for Gay Equality in UK and Worldwide.  Sometimes it’s easy to forget just how far we’ve come in the past decade, Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress said today.  (18:00)
June 28:  UK:  Two Gay Friendly Women in Brown’s Cabinet.  Two ‘gay-friendly’ women MPs have been appointed to top jobs in Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s cabinet.  They are Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears, who have both held junior ministerial posts.
June 27:  UK:  Prime Minister Gordon Brown: Friend or Foe of Gay Community?  Commentary by Peter Tatchell.  Gordon Brown has missed more gay equality votes in parliament than any other MP.  In 13 out of 14 votes in the House of Commons, Mr Brown has not bothered to turn up and vote.  While I doubt he is homophobic, he has failed to make any serious effort to vote in favour of gay law reform.
June 26:  USA:  Military Issues Revised Statement about Gay Service Personnel and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’.   The Department of Defense has issued a newly worded statement regarding the Pentagon’s position on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, the federal ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual service personnel.
June 26:  Iraq:  Iraq Descends Into Clericalism and Barbarism.  Commentary by Ali Hili.  Saddam was a tyrant. It is good that he is gone.  But since the American and British-led invasion in 2003, a once prosperous nation has been reduced to chaos, impoverishment and terror.
June 26:  Iran:  “All This Torture Just For Being a Lesbian”.  An interview with an Iranian lesbian who fled to Europe: "I am a lesbian.  For this reason I was arrested countless times.  I went to prison and ultimately sentenced to death [by hanging].  I remember the first time I was arrested; I was 21 and a student in Esfahan."
June 26:  UK:  Shock Report Says More Than 150,000 Victims of Gay Bashing in UK Schools.  A major survey of Britain’s secondary schools has revealed that almost two thirds of lesbian and gay pupils (156,000 children) have been victims of homophobic bullying.  ‘On three occasions I’ve been assaulted and had to go to hospital to be examined and get the police involved.’ Ali, 17, secondary school (Greater London)
June 25:  Russia:  Russian Activists to Demand EU Travel Ban On Anti-Gay Moscow Mayor.  City authorities have given official blessing to a demonstration by human rights activists outside the European Commission’s office in Moscow on Wednesday.  The demonstration will call for an EU-wide travel ban on the Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov.
June 25:  UK:  Manchester Are Gay Pride Football Champs.  Village Manchester FC were at the weekend crowned champions at the first Ford Pride Football Tournament, organised as part of the Pride London festival.
June 24:  UK:  Lincoln Gay Pride Festival Line-Up Confirmed.  Lincolnshire Pride Festival is only a month away and the weekend has in store includes live bands, cabaret, comedy, films, art, authors, market stalls, dancing, dog show, club nights and more.
June 24:  UK:  Doctor Who Takes Over Trafalgar Square at London’s Gay Pride.  Torn between loyalty to Pride London – but don’t want to miss Doctor Who?  The Pride London team and the Doctor Who producers have solved this dilemma by announcing that the last gripping episode in the current series will be shown on the big daylight screen in Trafalgar Square at 7.10pm on Pride Day, Saturday June 30.
June 23:  Germany:  Lissy Groner Receives Award for Moral Courage Against Homophobia and Discrimination.  The German MEP Lissy Gröner (SPD) was awarded the “Zivilcouragepreis” (a prize for moral courage against homophobia and discrimination) today in Berlin for her gay-lesbian and feminist commitment.
June 22:  Russia:  Supreme Court: Moscow Gay Pride Ban Lawful.  Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that the ban imposed by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov on last year’s Moscow Gay Pride was lawful.
June 22:  Canada:   Nurses Call for End to Homophobia and Heterosexism in Health Care.  As Toronto’s Pride Week marks a series of events across the province to celebrate diverse sexual and gender identities, the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) is calling on nurses and health-care organizations to eliminate discriminatory attitudes and practices which create barriers to inclusive and appropriate health care.
June 22:  Japan:   Lesbian Politician Speaks with Foreign Journalists.  Kanako Otsuji, Japan’s first openly lesbian politician, who is running in the upcoming Upper House election, has spoken about the motivation to decide to run – and the process of getting an official party endorsement.
June 22:  Israel:   Jerusalem Gay Pride Defies Fundamentalist Threats.  “We applaud the decision of the Israeli Supreme Court to reject an application to ban the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade,” said Brett Lock, spokesperson for the London-based LGBTI human rights group, OutRage! said last night.
June 21:  Iran:    Farsad and Farnam: A Gay Couple Who Have Been Tortured for Being Gay.  Arsham Parsi writes on another documented case from Iran.  "I ask you, should we keep silent?  Should we paint a false picture of their daily life situation?  Certainly silence is not an option.  Probably we should even be louder..."
June 21:  UK:  Euro Parliament ‘Intergroup’ Supports Jerusalem Gay Pride.  The European Parliament’s ‘Intergroup’ on Gay and Lesbian Rights expressed this morning its unwavering support for today’s Jerusalem Pride Parade in light of increasing pressure from an orthodox minority viewpoint to have it banned.
June 20:  UK:  Gay Author’s Typewriter,Passport Set for Auction in London.  The typewriter used by Quentin Crisp to write The Naked Civil Servant goes under the auctioneer’s hammer at Bonhams in London on June 26.
June 19:  UK:  Planning Underway in Plymouth for Gay Pride 2008 after First Venture Success.  Devon and Cornwall’s first major Pride event, staged earlier this months, was declared “a huge success” by organisers. The Pride was attended by thousands of people from both the LGBT and the wider communities.
June 19:  UK:  High Street Banks Fail to Serve HIV/Aids Charity Investors.  High street banks keep charity, club and trustee interest rates deliberately low, favouring strong returns to their own share holders, rather than delivering high interest, quick access accounts to charities, the social enterprise investment company CCLA claims.
June 15:  USA:  Gay, Disabled Writer Faces Eviction by Social Landlord.  Firdaus Kanga, the acclaimed gay, disabled writer and actor, who wrote and starred in the semi-autobiographical film Sixth Happiness, is bringing a legal action to halt his eviction from disabled-adapted housing in Islington, north London.
June 14:  USA:  Tears As Massachusetts Legislature Defeats Anti Gay Marriage Amendment.  “We won we won we won.”  These were the first six words that Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), punched into his BlackBerry as the result of the vote was announced at the State House. 
June 14:  USA/Iraq:  Two Members of US Congress Protest Persecution of Gay Iraqis.  Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Congressman Barney Frank (D- MA) have written to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urging the State Department to investigate reports of violent persecution of homosexual Iraqis by Islamic groups and militias.
June 13:  UK:  Police Officer Recognised for ‘Pride Not Prejudice’ Work.  A West Yorkshire police officer has been recognised for her work with the Wakefield Pride Not Prejudice Group, which organises the annual Gay Pride event.
June 13:  World:  Historic Agreement to Stop Anti-Gay ‘Murder Music’.  Three of the world’s top reggae/dancehall singers have renounced homophobia and condemned violence against lesbians and gay men.
June 12:  Romania:  Romanian Police Praised For Security of Bucharest Gay Pride.  The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has applauded the Romanian authorities for ensuring the security of over 250 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their supporters at the annual pride march in the nation’s capital of Bucharest on Saturday.
June 9:  Russia:  Principal Moscow Gay Pride Organiser Alekseev Also Guilty.  The main organiser of Moscow Gay Pride was today found guilty of disobeying police officers while breaching traffic rules on May 27 as he and other activists, including European parliamentarians tried to deliver a petition to Moscow City Hall signed by around 50 Members of the European Parliament.
June 8:  Russia:  Moscow Gay Pride Organiser Khramov Found Guilty.  One of the three organisers of Moscow Pride has escaped a jail sentence and was fined when found guilty this afternoon in a Moscow court which threw-out evidence, given at a previous hearing by a number of MPs from Europe, as “frivolous”.
June 6:  Europe/USA:  Anti-Gay Violence on the Rise in Europe and North America.  A new survey of hate crimes in Europe by a leading human rights organization finds a rising level of crimes committed against individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation, even as governments generally fail to monitor or report those crimes 
June 6:  Latvia:  Riga Gay Pride: Mozaika Pleased at ‘March for Equality’ Success.  Mozaīka, the Latvian alliance of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals (LGBT) and their friends, is very pleased about the “March for Equality” which took place in Vērmaņdārzs Park in Rīga on June 3, 2007, as part of their “Friendship Days 2007” festival.
June 6:  UK:  Conservative Party ‘Riddled With Homophobia’ – Blears.  The Conservative Party is “riddled with homophobia” after a new survey of party activists shows that one third would not attend a Civil Partnership ceremony, even if invited by a friend, Hazel Blears MP, chair of the Labour Party, said this afternoon.
June 6:  Japan:  Lesbian Politician Celebrates Her Same-Sex Partnership.  Japan’s first openly lesbian politician, who is running for the upcoming national election, celebrated her same-sex partnership on Sunday in Nagoya, Japan.
June 5:  UK:  Gay Footie Pride for London.  One of the highlights of this year’s Pride London festival will be the first-ever Ford Pride London Football tournament to be staged  on Saturday June 23 – a week before the Pride Parade through the streets of the West End.
June 4:  USA:  Democratic Presidential Candidates Endorse Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’.  The entire field of eight Democratic presidential candidates indicated their support for repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual personnel during a televised debate on Sunday.
June 3:  Latvia:  Peaceful Gay Pride Staged in Riga Amid Tight Security.  Around 1,200 people marched around the Vermanes Gardens at lunchtime as Riga staged, after two previous attempts, its Gay Pride.  But it was not like most Prides around the world.  Today was more of a walk around the park with tight security.  The main thing, as everyone agreed, was that it happened and it was peaceful.
June 3:  Latvia:  Riga Pride in Pictures.  28 photos from today's peaceful Riga Pride.
June 2:  Latvia:  Riga Ready for Gay Pride.  The Riga city authorities are tonight putting-in security measures around the downtown Vermanes Park in a bid to prevent supporters of the No Pride group from disrupting tomorrow’s Gay Pride March.
June 2:  Latvia:  Latvians Have Better Rights of Assembly After Last Years Gay Pride Problems.  The effect of last year’s abandoned Riga Gay Pride, when participants attending private indoor events had animal excrement thrown over them from No Pride protestors, has had a positive effect for all of Latvian society, Anhelita Kamenska of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights said this afternoon.
June 1:  Latvia:  UK and Sweden Show Official Support for Riga Gay Pride.  Support for Riga Friendship Days and Gay Pride has come today from the British Ambassador, the Chief of Staff of the Swedish Navy and an MEP — all hoping for a “celebration’ when the main event, the parade, takes place in Vermanes Park on Sunday.
June 1:  Russia:  Moscow Gay Pride: Tatchell’s Assailant Not Arrested, Say Police. Moscow police confirm that they have opened a criminal investigation into the assault on British gay human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, at last Sunday's Moscow Gay Pride event.  But official police claims that they have arrested the right-wing extremist who punched Mr Tatchell in the face are untrue, according to the investigating officer.