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April 15, 2013
Man executed and crucified for male rape, murder and theft in Saudi Arabia

A religious court in Saudi Arabia had a Yemeni national executed and crucified for robbing, raping and then killing a Pakistani migrant worker

A religious court in Saudi Arabia has executed and crucified a Yemeni man who robbed, raped and killed a Pakistani male migrant worker.

Saudi Arabia’s ministry of interior released a statement saying Mohammed Rashad Hussein, a Yemeni national, has been executed and crucified.

He was accused of murdering Sayed Khan, a Pakistani migrant worker.

He attacked him, stole from him and raped him before killing him.

March 20, 2013
Westboro Baptist Church says they 'thank God for the Sodomite Rainbow House'

'Equality House' has been painted in LGBT rainbow across street from church in Kansas

The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church claims to like the LGBT rainbow home that is now across the street from them in Topeka, Kansas.

'We thank God for the Sodomite Rainbow House,' the church said in a statement today. 'It is right across the street from the ONLY church that loves people enough to tell them the Bible truth about the filthy, soul-damning, nation-destroying sin of sodomy...The Sodomite Rainbow house helps shing a bright spotlight on this!'

March 13, 2013
Federal appeals court annuls Virginia sodomy law

A US federal appeals court ruled that Virginia’s anti-sodomy law is unconstitutional

A federal appeals court invalidated Virginia’s law prohibiting sodomy (anal and oral sex) ruling that is unconstitutional.

The three-judge panel of the 4th US circuit court of appeals ruled yesterday (12 March) that the law against oral and anal sex violates the constitution’s due process clause.

December 11, 2012
Scalia defends comparing his opposition to sodomy to his opposition to murder

Supreme Court justice has been consistantly anti-gay in his rulings

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, already well known for his opposition to LGBT legal cases, this week defended his comparison between having a moral objection to sodomy and having a moral objection toward things like bestiality or murder.

'If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against these other things?' Scalia said during a lecture at Princeton University on Monday (10 December).

November 25, 2012
Open letter to Jamaica minister of justice about repealing anti-gay law

Open letter by LGBT rights activist Maurice Tomlinson to Jamaican minister of justice about the delayed review of the country's anti-buggery law

Open Letter to Jamaica's minister of justice, The Honourable Mark Golding regarding the delayed review of the country's anti-buggery law.

Dear Honourable Minister Golding,

I read with dismay, but not surprise, that the government of Jamaica has put the issue of the promised review of the anti-sodomy law on hold, perhaps indefinitely.

November 1, 2012
Belgian pleads not guilty to sodomy in Zambia

A hotel manager has pleaded not guilty to charge of  acting ‘against the order of nature’ but is still in custody

A Belgian man pleaded not guilty to acting ‘against the order of nature’ (sodomy) in court in Zambia on Tuesday (30 October).

During the jury trial the man, a hotel manager living in the southern city of Livingstone, was accused of committing sodomy between March 2011 and January 2012 with a local man.

The accused’s lawyer applied for bail saying:

‘My client has been very cooperative from the time the matter was reported and he is able to raise sureties who are resident in Livingstone.’

May 16, 2012
Couple arrested for having sex on cruise ship docked in Dominica tell their story

'Many have taken this as an opportunity to attack our character and integrity'

It's been nearly two months since Robert Hart and Dennis Jay Mayer were arrested for having sex aboard a cruise ship that had docked on the Caribbean island of Dominica.

May 12, 2012
Four Iranian men due to be hanged for sodomy

Iran court sentence four men from the town of Choram, in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, to death by hanging for sodomy.

Four men named 'Saadat Arefi', 'Vahid Akbari', 'Javid Akbari' and 'Houshmand Akbari' are due to be executed shortly after their verdict was approved recently by high court judges, according to a report from the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) in Iran.

The four men are said to be from the town of Choram, in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province of Iran.

April 26, 2012
Man hanged for alleged gay sex in Iran

'Gangster' accused of gay sex executed in public in Fars Province, Iran

A young man known by the initials CH M was hanged publicly in Marwdasht, Fars Province, Iran, for allegedly engaging in 'sodomy' with another man.

Speaking with the Iranian Fars News Agency, Gholamhossein Chamansara, the Attorney General of Marwdasht, reported that the death penalty was given to the man - whose exact age is not known - due to his 'despicable act' that contradicted Sharia Muslim laws.

March 31, 2012
Picture surfaces showing couple having sex on cruise

Photo evidence surfaces that cruise couple were having public sex

It's been a difficult end of the month for John Hart and Dennis Mayer.

The Palm Springs couple were arrested last week in a port in the Caribbean island of Dominica. They were  on a Celebrity Summit cruise ship organized by West Hollywood-based Atlantis Event. Military police put the pair in handcuffs on suspicion of indecent exposure and sodomy.

March 22, 2012
Men arrested in Dominica for having sex on gay cruise ship plead guilty

They apologize, are called 'rogues and vagabonds,' and ordered to pay $900

Two men arrested for having sex aboard a cruise ship that had docked on the Caribbean island of Dominica pleaded guilty Thursday (22 March) to indecent exposure.

John Robert Hart, 41, and Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, both of Palm Springs, CA, were on a Celebrity Summit cruise ship when they were arrested by an officer on board after people on the dock saw them having intimate relations. Sex between two men is illegal on the island.

March 18, 2012
The history of a court case that ended anti-sodomy laws

Lawrence v. Texas:  the case that argued for the equality of LGBT citizens

It all began with Lawrence v. Texas. The criminal case that abolished anti-sodomy laws in the United States is step one for all of the recent successes for gay equality, from marriage rights to the dismantling of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'

January 25, 2012
Activists' fury at US anti-sodomy laws

Gay rights campaigners in Kansas are angry the US state still has anti-gay sex laws on the books.

Activists in Kansas are furious laws banning gay sex are still on the books in some US states.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, Kansas is one of the only states in America which still has anti-sodomy laws, which ban consensual sex between gay couples.

Campaigners are demanding the law be taken off the books completely in case 2003's Supreme Court ruling, which said the ban was unconstitutional, is ever overturned.

January 9, 2012
Bomb blasts greet sodomy acquittal of Malaysia’s opposition leader

Explosions injure five as Anwar Ibrahim addresses crowd of supporters following his acquittal on sodomy charges by the high court in Kuala Lumpur

Three homemade bombs exploded among 4,500 supporters of pro-reform Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim, following his release on sodomy charges.

Minutes before Anwar had told the crowd: 'We must focus on the general election because we want an independent judiciary... free media and to rid the country of endemic corruption'. His freedom brings Anwar closer to wining the next general election, likely to be held this year.

In the conclusion of a two-year trial, the charge of sodomy was thrown out by the judge on the grounds of insufficient evidence.