October 31:  Turkey:  Gay Turkish Conscientious Objector Tells of How He Was Brutally Assaulted by Prison Guards.  News was released today that gay Turkish conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan  was brutally assaulted by guards at Sivas military prison on Friday September 30 when he refused to have his hair cut.  Ali Düler, a prisoner who came to his aid, was also assaulted. 
October 31:  France/Poland:  Euro Gays Protest Against Polish Homophobia Outside Paris Embassy.  Famed French gay activist Alain Piriou joined almost 200 demonstrators from across Europe outside the Polish Embassy in Paris on Saturday evening to protest the increasing homophobic remarks made by the recently-elected President, Lech Kaczynski, a former child film star.
October 31:  France/Russia:  French Communist Party Supports Moscow Gay Pride.  The first-ever Moscow Pride and gay Festival has the support of the French Communist Party, it emerged at the weekend.
October 29:  UK:  Dobson Lawyers Get Tough With Gay Christian Church as Presiding Bishop Is Installed.  The installation of the Presiding Bishop of a predominantly-gay Christian denomination took an unexpected twist today when lawyers for Dr. James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” insisted they cease using the name of their new ministry to persons with HIV and AIDS.
October 29:  UK:  Gay Arts Festival in Liverpool Gets Underway.  November 2005 is the month that Liverpool will again play host to the hugely successful Homotopia.  After launching a pilot programme in November last year.  On offer  are a wide variety of events, events including film, theatre, comedy, heritage, cabaret and art. The festival runs from October 31 to November 14.
October 27:  UK:  Civil Partnership:  Gays in Northern Ireland Have Two-Day Start on Rest of UK.  The first registrations for Civil Partnerships in the United Kingdom will take place on Monday December 19 in Northern Ireland – two days before England, Scotland and Wales ­– the Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP) in Belfast said today.
October 27:   Pasolini: First English Translation of 1964 Poem by Famed Gay Italian Poet, Filmmaker.  November 2 will be the 30th anniversary of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini – and to commemorate his disappearance, one of his major poetic works Victory has been published for the first time ever in English translation.
October 26: UK/Nigeria:  Nigeria: Outrage! Protests Teen Lesbians ‘Brutal Caning’.  The London-based gay human rights group Outrage! has protested the recent sentencing of six young girls, one said to be as young as 12, to 90 strokes of the cane following accusations of lesbianism. 
October 26: USA:  New Estimate Suggests 25 of 2,000 US Casualties in Iraq May Have Been Gay.  As reports circulated yesterday that American casualties in the war in Iraq have reached 2000, statistician Gary Gates estimated today that more than 25 of those killed were gay or lesbian.
October 25:  France/Russia:  Russian Public Opinion Shows Support for Gay Equality.  A majority of Russians think that gays should have equal rights, a poll has revealed.
October 22:  UK:  Two Charged With Murder of Gay Barman Jody Dobrowski.  Two men have been charged with the murder last week of Jody Dobrowski.
October 20:  France/Russia:  Plans for IDAHO Meeting to Be Revealed in 'Gay Paree'.  Details of the first-ever meeting of the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) are to be unveiled in Paris next week – in the ‘Mayor’s Auditorium’ of the historic Hôtel de Ville (City Hall)
October 19:  UK/Europe:  Sir Elton John Becomes Patron of EuroPride London.  Sir Elton John has accepted an invitation to become a EuroPride Patron, giving the event two Peers of the Realm and a brace of Knights among the high-profile supporters.
October 19:  France (Sports):  Gay Football Club in Limelight at Top French League Match.  A gay French football (soccer) team will step into the sporting limelight on Saturday (October 22) when it plays an exhibition match against former stars of one of the country’s top clubs, Paris Saint-Germain.
October 17:  UK:  Clapham Murder: Inaction on Homophobia Condemned by Gay Group.  The government, police and Crown Prosecution Service have been condemned for their “indifferent, complacent attitude to homophobic hatred and violence”.  The criticism comes from gay human rights group OutRage! following the vicious murder of 24-year old Jody Dobrowski in a ‘queer-bashing’ attack on Clapham Common late last Friday, October 14.
October 17:  UK:  Plea to Brighton MPs: ‘Deliver All the Goods on Gay  Equality’.  Green Party city councillor Simon Williams has written to Brighton and Hove’s three MPs saying that they are not doing enough to persuade the Government to end discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
October 17:  Russia:  Likening Gays to Fascists Made Me So Furious.  Commentary  by  Nikolai  Alekseev  of GayRussia.ru on his trip to Krasnodar.  When I saw the slogan at the anti-gay protest in Krasnodar that organisers of next year’s Moscow Pride want revenge for fascist’s defeat over 60 years ago, I was not just amazed – I was furious.
October 16:  Russia:  Krasnodar’s Anti-Gay Protest Turns Out Low Key Under Watchful Eye of Militia, by Nikolai Alekseev.  Yesterday’s anti-gay protest in Krasnodar was banned by the authorities on the technicality that one of the groups organising the demonstration had been ordered by the courts to be closed down.  So there was one obvious question I had when I arrived at the monument to the Black Sea Kazak Army in the city and found the local law enforcement officers there.
October 15:  Russia:  Anti-Gay Protest Goes Ahead in Krasnodar Despite Ban - Only 30 Turn Up.  Anti-gay protestors defied a ban imposed by the Krasnodarski region authorities and rallied as promised in Krasnodar today.  Earlier in the week, organisers of the “patriots-homophobes” demonstration had predicted that 500 would turn up to protest the staging of a Gay Pride in Moscow, some 1,500 kilometres away.
October 14:  UK - Northern Ireland:  Gay Group Invites Foes to Talk About Civil Partnerships.  A gay group in Northern Ireland has offered to meet anyone in the Province who is against Civil Partnership for same-sex couples.  The legislation that recognises gay partnerships comes into effect in December.
October 13:  Russia:  Anti-Gay Demo in Krasnodar Banned by Authorities.  Authorities in the Krasnodarski region of Russia have said this evening that they will not authorise the anti-gay demonstration in Krasnodar on Saturday.
October 13:  Russia:  Protest Against Moscow Gay Pride in City 1,500 km Distant.  A demonstration against the proposed first-ever Moscow Gay Pride festival, scheduled to be staged in May next year, will take place on Saturday (October 15) in Krasnodar, some 1,500 km (950 miles) from the Russian capital and close to the Black Sea. 
October 13:  Italy:  Pasolini Murder Case Shelved, by Doug Ireland.  The investigation into the 1975 murder of the great gay Italian poet-film director-novelist-playwright-essayist-literary critic Pier Paolo Pasolini – which had been re-opened in May after the hustler originally convicted of the murder recanted on television his confession of three decades earlier – has been definitively shelved, it was reported in Rome yesterday.
October 12:  Uganda:  Uganda’s Targeting of Gays and Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Condemned.  The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) condemned today the recent decision by Uganda President Yoweri Museveni to ban same-sex marriage.
October 12:  Turkey:  Turkish Court Not to Hear Case to Closedown Gay Group.  Gays in Turkey have today claimed a victory in their bid to save the closure of Kaos, the gay and lesbian human rights group.
October 12:  UK:  Alleged Assaults on Gays In ’Derry Taken to Court.  A 26 years-old man, Stephen Lee Wright, is due to appear at Londonderry Courthouse tomorrow, Thursday October 13, on charges relating to a widely reported assault on a Rainbow Project Volunteer in July 2004 when the gay man was attacked and bitten in the face outside a chip shop in the Waterside area.
October 11:  UK:  Gay Leicester Councillor’s ‘Outing’ of Teen Rent Boys in Newspaper is Slammed.  Gay men in Leicester who frequent the cruising area in Abbey Park have effectively been branded “paedophiles” – by a 23-years-old gay city councillor who is also a counsellor at the local LGBT centre.
October 10:  Kyrgyzstan:  Gay Women Particularly Susceptible to Discrimination in Kyrgyzstan.  By Gulnura Toralieva in Bishkek.  It was an unpleasant incident at a Bishkek café that helped convince Sasha Kim that Kyrgyz lesbians had been silent for too long.  She was among several women ordered out of the cafe when two of their number were spotted by the other patrons exchanging a kiss. They were told the restaurant was a “respectable establishment” and no place for gays and lesbians.
October 7:  UK:    Bid to Deport Gay Ugandan Torture Victim by UK Government.  A twenty-five years old refugee who was jailed by the Ugandan government for his gay human rights work and subjected to four months of forced labour, water torture, beatings and rape, from May to September 2004, is today facing deportation, Outrage! has revealed today.
October 5:  Eastern Europe:  Euro Conference Calls For End of Gay Discrimination.  More than 150 gay activists from central and eastern Europe are calling on their respective governments to outlaw discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and to implement legislation for “registered partnerships” for same-sex couples.
October 5:  Nepal:  Kathmandu Gay Metis Are Released, But With Conditions.  The five Metis who were arrested on Sunday in the Nepali capitol were released yesterday, the gay rights group Blue Diamond Society has said.
October 4:  UK/Iran:  Gay Executions and Torture: Does Protesting Really Help? Yes, Says Iranian Exile.  Commentary.  We often wonder whether protests outside Embassies have any effect.  It might make us feel good as we wave a banner condemning some atrocity or another, as was the case outside the Iranian Embassy in London today when gay rights in Iran – or the complete lack of them – took centre stage.
October 4:  UK/Iran:  Celebrities Join London Protest Against Iran Gay Executions and Torture.  TV soap and film actor Jeremy Sheffield, gay rap star Q Boy, comedian Scott Cappurro, Big Brother contestant Josh Rafter, out gay Labour MP Chris Bryant and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell today joined a 50-strong protest outside the Iranian Embassy in London.
October 3:  Iran:  Star Support for London Demo Against Brutal Iranian Treatment of Gays.  A number of stars have backed tomorrow’s demonstration at the Iranian Embassy in London and the international petition organised by the monthly UK gay magazine axm.  The magazine has joined forces with Outrage!, the UK gay human rights organisation, to organise the “Homophobia Kills” protest against the homophobic atrocities in Iran outside the country’s Embassy at 1pm tomorrow (Tuesday October 4).
October 3:  Nepal:  Call to Intervene to Help Release Five Imprisoned Gay Metis in Nepal, by Sunil Pant in Kathmandu.  Five metis were arrested last night about 10pm in Kantipath while they were on their way to the Thamel area of the Nepali capitol. [Reports from Nepal earlier today said that there were three metis arrested]. They were Suntali Lama (age about 22 years), Neema Lama (age 22), Kanchhi Lama (age 25), Bipasa Rai (aged about 19) and Deepa(age 22).
October 3:  Nepal:  Three More Gay Metis Arrested and Beaten by Nepali Police.  Reports are coming in of the arrest of another three metis in Nepal. A meti is a M-to-F transgendered person.  “The police are becoming more and more brutal,” said a spokesperson at the Blue Diamond Society (BDS), Nepal’s LGBT human rights and HIV/AIDS organisation.
October 2:  Lithuania:  Anti-Gay Demonstration in Vilnius, by Juris Lavrikovs.  Around 50 people gathered on the Europe Square in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Friday to protest against possible gay pride march and ‘spread’ of homosexuality in Lithuania.  All major Christian denominations expressed their support for this demonstration.
October 1:  UK/Iran:   New Iran Protest Over Treatment of Gays at London Embassy.  A new protest outside the Iranian Embassy in London is to be staged next week.  UK gay human rights group Outrage!, which last July broke the news to the world of the execution of two gay teenagers, has joined forces with UK gay lifestyle monthly axm to spearhead a further demonstration at the Embassy on Tuesday (October 4).