Posters featuring former Prime Minister and Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev, the leader of the conservative RZS (“Order, Law, Justice”) party, and popular pop folk music singer, Azis and advertising a Gay Pride parade that isn't scheduled to happen have gone up in Sofia, Bulgaria, Novinvite reports: "The posters say that the gay parade is being organized by the Bulgarian Socialist Youth, an organization attached to the Bulgarian Socialist Party; “Spartacus”, a gay/straight disco club in downtown Sofia which was shut down several years ago, and the RZS party, and with the media support of SKAT TV... ...

Yesterday, thousands of people marched in the streets of Cape Town during that city's annual gay pride parade. The participants called attention to the homophobia and oppression gays and lesbians face in Africa. As has been reported here in the past, a "kill the gays" bill has been introduced in Uganda and two men in Malawai were imprisoned last year for marrying in a symbolic wedding last.  ...

I admit, I’ve never had many great things to say about my hometown, Augusta, GA. In fact, when I was in high school, my classmates and I tended to call it “Dis-Gusta.” That was probably because it was a very conservative, sprawling suburban city with a very small town attitude — with a whole lot of nothing to do for teenagers. Like the lyrics of “An American Dream” — that 1979 hit by the Nitty Gritty Band and Linda Rondstadt said, “Augusta, Georgia is just no place to be.” The title of a Pet Shop Boys track, ...

Just read the news today that 27-year-old Brazilian Augusto Pereira de Souza has been granted legal asylum in the United States claiming persecution and harassment in his homeland because of his homosexuality. Having lived in New York for several years, I do understand that people sometimes will do whatever they can to become legal residents of the US, but what I don't understand is how the US government let this one pass, and how Augusto Pereira de Souza's lawyers were able to make a case for granting legal asylum to someone who comes from the country with the ...

Why is the issue of gay rights considered so divisive? I still remember four years ago how the prospect of a simple Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem accomplished what centuries of wars could not: unifying Jewish, Palestinian and even Christian... ...

" We need a social whip or something like that, not a liberal ginger cake." — Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, on why he's banning the "satanic" Gay Pride Parade ...

During LGBT rights demonstrations in 2009, Moscow police haul away a gay rights protester Flickr photo: zub4ik    ::: Moscow’s outspokenly homophobic mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, vowed again on Monday to stop any gay pride parade from taking place in his city. “One cannot watch complacently numerous manifestations of blasphemy presented as creativity and enacted with the use of the principle of the freedom of speech as a cover,” he said in an address, Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency reports. In his speech to an education conference, Luzkov said, “A gay parade… cannot be called anything but a Satanic ...

Read transcripts of the federal Prop 8 trial HERE.Man found dead on gay cruise in the Cayman Islands. "Nutty" fan at UGA-Tennessee game figures out a way he can get on the court without anyone touching him.This ad has triggered my deepest fears.Gay pianist Earl Wild dies at 94.Arjan Writes talks to gay artist Matt Morris about his new album and his duet with Justin Timberlake at the "Hope for Haiti" telethon (if you missed their performance, watch it here — it was definitely the best ...

The Advocate’s intrepid reporter Brandon Voss is at it again. This time he sits down with Julianne Moore as she looks back on bitch-slapping Madonna, lesbian mullets, and her most memorable gay pride parade ever. The A Single Man co-star also opened up about the controversy around the “de-gaying” of the film’s marketing campaign and a little crush – or lust- she had on the director, Tom Ford. Advocate: I’d argue you first got the gay audience’s attention in 1993 when you bitch slapped Madonna in Body of Evidence.Julianne Moore: That’s really funny. It was a fake slap. I ...

The last part of today's testimony in Perry v. Schwarzenegger showed that the arguments used by the Prop 8 campaign simply continued the homophobic distortions of the Dade County "Save Our Children" campaign - the one that Anita Bryant worked with. I want to say here that Anita Bryant's appearance in Des Moines in the 1970s was the first time I walked a gay picket line. I hadn't even been to a gay pride parade yet. Terri Stewart (lawyer for the plaintiffs): Are you familiar with Prop.8? Dr. George Chauncey: Yes. He then defined it. (It hurts a bit more ...

Ah, coming out; as a lesbian this is one of my favorite topics of discussion. There are so many things to consider as a homosexual individual, even if you’ve already established yourself as totally gay to your nearest and dearest. Should you correct an acquaintance if they assume you are heterosexual? Should you tell relatives a generation or two older? Do you need to inform old friends and ex’s? Do your parents really need to be told? In short, is “coming out” always appropriate? This is the question myself and some of my gay male friends were discussing over a few ...

Longtime HIVAIDS activist Howard Jacobs dies in L.A. at 45. The surface of Mars as revealed by orbiter. New MTV reality series to feature Jersey shore house "full of the hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos." Purdue students protest professor Bert Chapman's blog post arguing the "economic case against homosexuality". Chapman: "As a conservative Christian, I firmly believe the homosexual lifestyle is morally wrong, and my blog posting sought to emphasize there are economic and public policy implications to widespread and open acceptance of this lifestyle." 10-year-old refuses to say Pledge of Allegiance until there is liberty ...

Some of the festival-goers at Copacabana use a giant rainbow flag as an umbrella photo via Made In Brazil via Made In Brazil photo by Marina Rodinsky via Flickr Despite a persistent light drizzle, over a million people congregated near Copacabana for Rio de Janeiro’s glittering 14th Annual Gay Pride Parade, Made In Brazil blog reports. Although they might easily have been lost among the festive costumes, politicians were on hand to assure parade-goers that LGBT rights would be enhanced and protected: From the top of one ...

The light rain didn't stop over one million people from marching down Avenida Atlântica in Copacabana yesterday for Rio's 14th Annual Gay Pride Parade. From the top of one of the sixteen floats, the state governor Sérgio Cabral affirmed that "Rio will always be on the forefront of civil rights in Brazil," and said that he was sorry for the fact that there are still politicians fighting against gay rights: "People need to understand that if a man loves another man, that is their business and no one else's." Rio's mayor Eduardo Paes guaranteed that the parade will ...

Rio de Janeiro will be hosting its 14th Annual Gay Pride Parade this coming Sunday at Avenida Atlântica in Copacabana. I am not going, but it seems that half of the country is, given the fact that Monday just so happens to be a national holiday. Here is the party schedule for those of you who will be in Rio over the weekend: Saturday, October 31: Cosmopolitan at The Week with Israeli duo Epiphony and DJs Gustavo Junior, Jeff Valle, Leandro Becker, Morais, and Renato Cecin. Bootleg at Dama de Ferro with DJs Leo Janeiro, Soter Baroni, Mauricio Lopes, João ...

Love this ad spot created to promote the 8th Annual Gay Pride Parade of Salvador, which happens this coming Sunday. Come out of the closet and go. I will be expecting pictures of the parade from those of you who live in Bahia.Video via Mix Brasil. ...

Salon: A Goth Night at Cafe Metropolitan is on Thursday, October 15 starting at 7pm until 2am.The night's theme is "DEAD THINGS SHOULD STAY DEAD" and is a fundraiser for Gothic Pride in Seattle.Come out in your moldered lace and time worn decomposing best fashion for the first monthly Goth Night at Cafe Metropolitain. These events are to provide a smoke free social atmosphere for the Goth community to talk and network freely while having the opportunity to donate to Gothic Pride Seattle for the Mr. & Mrs. Goth Seattle Pageant and our float for the Gay Pride Parade.Cafe ...

BELGRADE, Serbia — There was not a gay person, let alone a banner, in sight in the square in front of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade’s city center at lunchtime on this Sunday. The Gay Pride Parade, scheduled for Sept. 20, had been banned by officialdom, or cancelled by the organizers, depending on which [...] ...

The Sept. 20 gay pride parade in Belgrade, Serbia, was canceled Sep. 19 under pressure from police and the government, who said they couldn't protect the marchers from thousands of violent anti-gay hooligans who planned to attack the event. March opponents had covered wa... ...