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Violence, Hostility Slow Europe's Progress on LGBTI Equality: Rights Group
Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia are the worst countries in Europe for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights, but violence against LGBTI people remains rife across the continent, a rights group said late on Sunday.
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Dominican Government Won't Recognize Gay Marriage at UK Embassy
The Dominican Republic says it will not recognize a same-sex marriage performed for the first time in the conservative Caribbean country.
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Tenth Athens Pride Calls for Equal Rights to Family
Hundreds of people on Saturday joined Greece's annual gay pride parade in a long-standing demand for equal rights to civil union and adoption.
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Gambia's Yahya Jammeh calls gays 'vermin', says to fight like mosquitoes
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh on Tuesday called homosexuals "vermin" and said his government would tackle them in the same way it fights malaria-causing mosquitoes.
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Dozens arrested for being gay in north Nigeria
First the police targeted the gay men, then tortured them into naming dozens of others who now are being hunted down, human rights activists said on Tuesday, warning that such persecution will rise under a new Nigerian law.
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Gay marriage legal in Britain after royal assent
Britain legalised gay marriage on Wednesday after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal assent to a bill approved by lawmakers, paving the way for the first same sex weddings in 2014.
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Thatcher song joins list of tunes BBC censored
A 70-year-old song is giving the BBC a headache. The radio and television broadcaster has agonized over whether to play "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead," a tune from "The Wizard of Oz" that is being driven up the charts by opponents of Margaret Thatcher as a mocking memorial to the late British prime minister.
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Britain may sue churches for refusing gay marriages
Churches in Britain may face legal action if they do not agree to the prime minister's plans for same-sex unions, a media report said on Tuesday.
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Hugh Grant backs gay marriage rights campaign
Actor Hugh Grant has lent his voice to a campaign calling for a change in the UK's gay marriage laws.
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Violence, Hostility Slow Europe's Progress on LGBTI Equality: Rights Group
Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia are the worst countries in Europe for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights, but violence against LGBTI people remains rife across the continent, a rights group said late on Sunday.
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Dominican Government Won't Recognize Gay Marriage at UK Embassy
The Dominican Republic says it will not recognize a same-sex marriage performed for the first time in the conservative Caribbean country.
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Tenth Athens Pride Calls for Equal Rights to Family
Hundreds of people on Saturday joined Greece's annual gay pride parade in a long-standing demand for equal rights to civil union and adoption.
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Gambia's Yahya Jammeh calls gays 'vermin', says to fight like mosquitoes
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh on Tuesday called homosexuals "vermin" and said his government would tackle them in the same way it fights malaria-causing mosquitoes.
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Dozens arrested for being gay in north Nigeria
First the police targeted the gay men, then tortured them into naming dozens of others who now are being hunted down, human rights activists said on Tuesday, warning that such persecution will rise under a new Nigerian law.
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Gay marriage legal in Britain after royal assent
Britain legalised gay marriage on Wednesday after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal assent to a bill approved by lawmakers, paving the way for the first same sex weddings in 2014.
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Thatcher song joins list of tunes BBC censored
A 70-year-old song is giving the BBC a headache. The radio and television broadcaster has agonized over whether to play "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead," a tune from "The Wizard of Oz" that is being driven up the charts by opponents of Margaret Thatcher as a mocking memorial to the late British prime minister.
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Britain may sue churches for refusing gay marriages
Churches in Britain may face legal action if they do not agree to the prime minister's plans for same-sex unions, a media report said on Tuesday.
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Hugh Grant backs gay marriage rights campaign
Actor Hugh Grant has lent his voice to a campaign calling for a change in the UK's gay marriage laws.
