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May 22, 2013
Anti-gay group fights to 'protect' children from Harvey Milk Day

SaveCalifornia, a conservative family values advocacy group have told parents to boycott celebrations honouring gay activist Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk Day (22 May), celebrating the state’s first openly gay man elected to US office, is being met by protests.

SaveCalifornia, a family values group, have called for parents to boycott Harvey Milk Day.

They have described Milk as a ‘predator of teens’ and have advised California parents to ‘protect your child from Harvey Milk Gay Day.’

March 24, 2013
Official Tunisian paper slams leading Egyptian feminist as 'promoting' 'gayness'

Al-Fajr, Tunisia's ruling party's official paper, accused Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt's leading feminist, of 'promoting homosexuality and prostitution'

Renowned Egyptian feminist, Nawal El Saadawi, was accused by the Tunisia’s main paper as a ‘promoter of prostitution and homosexuality’.

The smear campaign was launched last week in Al Fajr, after Saadawi visited Tunisia during the International Women’s day, where she was warmly received the country’s president, Moncef Marzouki, as well as several other ministers.

March 2, 2013
Crowds turn out for 35th Sydney Mardi Gras parade despite threat of rain

Hundreds of thousands of tourists and Sydneysiders turned out to watch the 2013 Mardi Gras parade despite an early threat of rain
 

Sydney’s 35th annual Mardi Gras Parade has been a success despite an early threat of rain from bad weather that thankfully cleared up at the last minute.

It had rained the previous night and all day but that didn’t deter the hundreds of thousands who turned up to line Sydney’s Oxford Street to watch the parade - which itself contained 10,000 people across 110 different marching groups and floats.

January 25, 2013
UK government’s gay marriage bill published

UK Culture Secretary and Equalities Minister Maria Miller has published the bill giving gay couples the equal right to marry in England and Wales

December 20, 2012
Vatican says gay marriage is a ‘false utopia’

The Catholic Church condemn gay couples who want children, saying it will lead to further 'exploitations of science'

The Vatican has continued its fight against marriage equality in Europe and around the world, saying gay couples live in a ‘different reality’ hoping for a ‘false utopia’.

L’Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Holy See, printed a front-page editorial titled titled ‘Marriage Is Not A Contract’.

Think Progress reports it claimed same-sex couples live in a ‘different reality’ where they believe society will crumble if an ‘unattainable utopia’ of equality is not achieved.

September 1, 2012
Key Republican donor backs gay marriage

Billionaire Republican campaign donor David Koch opposes his party’s stance against allowing same-sex couples to marry

June 20, 2012
Minister says Malaysia constitution does not protect LGBT citizens

Malaysia deputy minister says government is ‘tackling’ LGBT issue

A Malaysia deputy minister questioned in the senate yesterday, said that the constitution did not protect the rights of LGBT citizens.

Dr Mashitah Ibrahim, deputy minister in the prime minister’s department responded to a question in the senate about what the government was doing to ‘tackle’ LGBT issues.

‘A series of rehabilitation and treatment courses will be given to Muslims who have deviated from societal norms,’ said Mashitah. She said that being LGBT was against Islam and the constitution of the country, as Islam is the official religion.

April 27, 2012
Koreans defend Lady Gaga against Christian intolerance

South Koreans have rallied to support Lady Gaga against Christian criticism of her for 'spreading homosexuality and pornography'

Cultured South Koreans have defended Lady Gaga against Christian criticism ahead of her performance in Seoul tonight, the first in her Born This Way Asian tour.

Since her arrival in the country last Friday, Christian groups have been praying for Lady Gaga's concert to be cancelled.

April 5, 2012
Hilton hotel offer for World Pride partygoers

Hotel chain to offer reduced room rates, free internet and more for LGBT customers during World Pride in London

Hotel chain Hilton will celebrate World Pride in London by giving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender visitors special offers during the festival.

Stay Hilton. Go Out will give LGBT customers reduced room rates, double Hilton HHonors rewards points, late check-out, free high-speed internet and free one-year digital subscription to gay magazine Out.

December 6, 2011
Hong Kong Disney Gay Day is a hit

Lion King unites with Mr Gay HK for first Asian Disneyland Gay Day.

Organisers of the first official Gay Day at Hong Kong Disneyland are jubilant after more people turned up than anticipated.

The event had been taking place unofficially since 2007 but this was the first time Disney itself added input.

Co-ordinated by a group of volunteers called GayDaysAsia, almost 200 people took part in the fun at the weekend.

Highlights included a gay-themed treasure hunt with the first prize being a yearly pass to the fun park, a Lion King show featuring Mr Gay Hong Kong 2010 HeiHei Yau and a Buzz Lightyear Astroblaster challenge.