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SEPTEMBER 2008

Sep 30: Iran:  Iran Admits It Has Gay People … But Only a Few, Says President Ahmadinejad.  The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has done an astonishing volte-face by admitting in a US television interview that there are lesbian and gay people in Iran.  Only last year, in a speech at Columbia University in New York, he notoriously claimed there were no lesbians and gays in his country.
Sep 30: Australia:  HIV Researcher Says STIs No Basis for Gay Blood Ban.  HIV researcher, Prof John Kaldor, has agreed rates of sexually transmitted diseases other than HIV are not a basis upon which to ban gay men from blood donation.  The concession came during evidence from Prof. Kaldor to the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal hearing into gay blood donation which continued in Hobart today.
Sep 29: USA:  Gay-Friendly Airline Endorses the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).  American Airlines, the world’s largest airline and a founding member of the ‘oneworld Alliance’, has written Congress a letter of support for the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which is currently under consideration.
Sep 29: UK:  Manchester Gay Pride Raises £105,000 for Charity.  Manchester Pride 2008 raised £105,000 for charity during its 18th birthday celebrations at the end of August, it was revealed today.
Sep 29: Australia:  HIV Researcher Questions Blanket Gay Blood Ban, But Still Endorses It.  In a mixed result for gay blood donation campaigners, a senior HIV researcher has labelled the current ban on gay blood donation as “conservative” but still endorsed it.
Sep 28: Bosnia-Herzegovina:  Gay Film Festival Coordinator Among Those Injured in Attack on Sarajevo Queer Festival.  The film festival coordinator of the International Lesbian and Gay Culture Network (ILGCN), was among those injured in Bosnia-Herzegovina last week when the Sarajevo Queer Festival was targeted by hooded men, some shouting Islamic slogans.
Sep 27: USA:  Google Takes a Stand – Backs Gay Marriage in California.  Commentary.  It is human nature to “love to hate” those companies who dominate our lives.  One such company is Google, who in a few short years has managed to get its name into most English dictionaries as a verb – to google.  It is now time to show a “little love” for the search-engine giant.
Sep 25: Bosnia-Herzegovina:  Amnesty Slams Bosnian Authorities as Gay Festival Is Called Off.  The authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina should have provided adequate security for the participants in the first “Sarajevo Queer Festival”, said Amnesty International after several people were attacked at the end of the first day of the festival.
Sep 25: Bosnia-Herzegovina:  Attack on Gay Festival in Sarajevo Condemned by MEPs.  The violence at yesterday’s opening of the Sarajevo Queer Festival – the first of its kind organised in Bosnia-Herzegovina – has been condemned by members of the European Parliament’s all-party ‘Intergroup’ for gay and lesbian human rights.
Sep 25: UK:  Gay Iraqi Leader Assassinated in Baghdad.  The Baghdad coordinator of Iraqi LGBT has been assassinated, probably by one of the two religious militia.
Sep 22: UK:  Labour Reneges on Gay Asylum Pledge — Tatchell.  Government ministers Harriet Harman and Barbara Follett have reneged on their undertaking to intervene in cases where LGBT asylum seekers are being unfairly treated by the Home Office, Peter Tatchell of Outrage! said this morning.
Sep 20: USA:  “So Gay” Picture Special — South Carolina Pride.  Photos from South Carolina Pride in Columbia (on Flickr)
Sep 18: Bosnia and Herzegovina:  Sarajevo Queer Festival Must be Protected — Amnesty.  The authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina must guarantee a climate free of intimidation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, as they prepare for the first “Sarajevo Queer Festival”, Amnesty International said today.
Sep 11: UK/Uganda:  Gay Man Fears Death After Removal from Britain.  A gay asylum seeker believes he will be killed because of his sexuality if he is returned to Uganda on Sunday.  John Bosco Nyombi is due to be removed from the UK after living and working in Portsmouth for seven years.
Sep 11: USA:  South Carolina Gears Up To Be ‘So Gay’ for Pride.  South Carolina will be ‘so gay’ later this month with the intentional help of celebrity drag diva and recording artist RuPaul – and the unintentional help of state officials.
Sep 10: Uganda:  Genocide by Denial: The Story of HIV/Aids in Uganda.  Uganda has been called “the birthplace” of Aids.  Some of the earliest known cases can be traced to the central district of Rakai, where long-distance truckers started dying from a mysterious illness in the mid-1980s.
Sep 10: European Union:  Green MEP Appointed Rapporteur for New EU Anti-Discrimination Law that Now Includes Gays.  The Civil Liberties committee of the European Parliament decided yesterday that Dutch Green MEP Kathalijne Buitenweg is be the rapporteur for the proposed European Union anti-discrimination law.
Sep 10: Europe:  Gay Euro Group Launches Guide on Homophobic, Transphobic Monitoring and Reporting.  ILGA-Europe has launched a handbook on monitoring and reporting homophobic and transphobic incidents.
Sep 9: UK:  Gay Activist: Is Cardinal Newman’s Reburial Illegal?  Justice Secretary, Jack Straw MP, is being urged by Peter Tatchell to rescind the license granted to the Roman Catholic Church for the exhumation and reburial of Cardinal John Henry Newman, on the grounds that it is “certainly unethical and probably illegal”.
Sep 9: USA:  Bio Pic of Gay Activist Harvey Milk Set to Open in November.  Harvey Milk is a gay rights icon – he was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office not only in San Francisco, but in the world.  He and city mayor George Moscone were assassinated at City Hall by Dan White, another city official, on November 27, 1978.  Page contains the film's trailer.
Sep 8: UK:  TUC Calls for Immediate Removal of Anti-Gay Joel Edwards from EHRC.  In a unanimous decision at their annual Congress in Brighton, the trade union movement, which represents 6.5 million members in the UK, condemned the appointment of Joel Edwards to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
Sep 8: UK:  Gay Holidaymakers Find Pink Pound ‘Pinched’.  The cutting of customers’ credit limits by banks in the UK is having an impact on holidays, the specialist gay travel company Mantrav International claims.
Sep 8: UK:  Sexual Health Advice in Welsh for Gay Men Now Online.  Sexual health information in the Welsh language is now available to users of the popular Gaydar website. Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) Cymru launched the new service, called ‘Netreach’, on Saturday.  This article is also in Welsh - Mae Ymddiriedolaeth Terrence Higgins Cymru yn cynnig gwybodaeth iechyd rhywiol mewn stafelloedd sgwrsio Cymreig Gaydar.
Sep 6: UK:  The Sights of Cardiff Gay Pride.  Coopers Field, the venue for  Cardiff Gay Pride, was, like most of South Wales, awash with water yesterday when the event was cancelled.  But this did not stop the organisers from making sure that something went on in the Welsh capital.  Page includes eight photos.
Sep 5: UK:  Rain Hits Cardiff Gay Pride Forcing Cancellation.  Prolonged – and heavy – rain in South Wales has hit the Welsh capital’s Gay Pride tomorrow (September 6).
Sep 4: UK:  Gay and Transgender Victims of Bullying Get New Online Reporting Facility.  A new online reporting facility for victims of homophobic and transphobic bullying has been launched by Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH).
Sep 3: UK:  New Venture Brings Distinguished Speakers to Croydon Gay Group.  Four well-known speakers have been lined-up for a series of ‘open meetings’ for the local lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community to be launched next month by Croydon Area Gay Society (CAGS)