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Sweden, Denmark and Norway Cut Off Aid Money To Uganda Over Anti-Gay Legislation
Share this: The country of Sweden on Wednesday announced that it would stop all development aid payments to Uganda immediately ”because of the anti-gay legislation” passed in late February. “The government reaffirms its strong...
Uganda President Signs Life Inprisonment Anti-Gay Bill, John Kerry Reviews Assistance Programs
Share this: Ugandan President Idi-Amin Dada II Museveni has signed the bill penalizing homosexuality with life imprisonment into law today, the Ugandan Observer reports: The president was in combative mood in a speech after the signing and while answering...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni To President Obama: Don’t Tell Me How To Run My House
Share this: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has responded to President Obama’s denouncement of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill, saying, “You can’t tell me how to run my house.” While Museveni has not yet signed the bill,...
LGBT Activist Stand Up To Scott Lively At DC Presser For His New Anti-Gay Hate Group – Video
Share this: Two brave LGBT activists; Ellen Sturtz and Viacheslav Revin disrupted a press conference today held at the National Press Club by Scott “Crimes Against Humanity” Lively to announce the new anti-gay hate group he has formed...
IOC Defends Arrest of Italian Trans Ex-Parliment Member At Sochi For Breaking Gay Propaganda Law
Share this: The International Olympic Committee has come defending the Russian authorities’ decision to ”remove ” Vladimir Luxuria a transgender Italian ex-Parliament member and LGBT rights activist from the Olympic Village last week...
Former Italian Trans Prime Minister Arrested In Sochi For “Gay Is OK” Banner
Share this: Vladimir Luxuria, the former Italian MP and the first transgender person to hold that office, has been arrested in Sochi after displaying a banner reading ‘Gay is OK’, according to Italian media reports. Luxuria was taken...
AP Reports Gay Men Being Dragged From Homes And Savagely Beaten In Nigeria
Share this: The Associated Press is reporting a wave of brutal beatings of gay men in the anti-gay country of Nigeria where armed mobs are dragging the victims out of their homes and into the streets. A mob armed with wooden clubs and iron bars, screaming...
International Olympic Committee Backs Russia On Arrest and Beatings Of LGBT Protesters
Share this:Reports have upped the number of LGBT protesters arrested in Russia yesterday at well past 60 with many reporting being harassed and beaten by Police. And guess what? The International Committee appears to be just fine and dandy it. “We...
Man Attempts to Hijack Turkish Plane And Divert To Sochi Right Before Opening Ceremony
Share this: A Ukrainian man tried to hijack a Turkey-bound flight to Sochi, Russia, as the Winter Olympics were kicking off Friday, but the pilot tricked him and landed in Istanbul instead, where he was arrested after a four-hour stand-off on a plane...
