International — March 12, 2010 at 1:46 pm

A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 1000 lashes, fined $1,300 and banged up for a year in prison after appearing in a Youtube clip where he dresses as a policeman and flirts with another man. In the clip, he pretends to take someone’s driving...

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VIDEO: 1000 LASHES FOR GAY YOUTUBE CLIP

March 12th, 2010 | International | Read More

LITHUANIANS KILLED IRISH MAN FOR BEING GAY

Two men from Lithuania have been convicted yesterday of killing supermarket manager Shaun Fitzpatrick because he was gay. Andrius Dunauskas, 23, and Ramunas Balseris, 26, both beat their victim so badly that initially he was thought to have been shot. He had 52 separate injuries after the sustained attack...

March 12th, 2010 | News | Read More

CONTINUED THREATS TO GAYS ON KENYAN COAST

A Christian Radio Station in Mombasa, Kenya, is continuing to broadcast threats against local LGBT. Baraka FM, along with others, has been implicated in inciting the attempted pogrom in Mtwapa, near Mombasa in February. Blogger GayUganda reports receiving an email stating that the station read out the...

March 12th, 2010 | Highlights, International | Read More

CYBERBULLING ON INCREASE FOR GAY TEENS

New research in the US has found that increasing numbers of gay teens are being bullied through the web via chat rooms and social networking sites. The findings from Iowa State University discovered that of 54% of the gay youths reported being victims of cyber-bullying in the 30 days prior to the study. Cyberbullying...

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ART: Plane & Patterned

Plane & Patterned exhibition by Sally McGill at Bicha gallery, between 16th to the 28th of March 2010. http://www.bicha.co.uk This post was submitted by Antonio.

March 12th, 2010 | What's on | Read More

I LOVE YOU COMPETITION

Jim Carrey’s latest movie I Love You Phillip Morris is out on the 17th March. It’s based on a true story of Texas policeman Steve Russell (Jim Carrey) who leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church and happily married to Debbie (Leslie Mann). That is until he has...

March 10th, 2010 | Film, Highlights | Read More

DIVERSITY ESSENTIAL EMPLOYERS TOLD

Brendon Riley, Chief Executive Officer of IBM UK, and Vice Admiral Alan Massey from the Royal Navy both called on UK employers to keep focused on workplace equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual staff at Stonewall’s workplace conference. Vice Admiral Massey said “Changing behaviours takes some...

March 10th, 2010 | Highlights, News | Read More

MICROSOFT’S BING BANS HOMOS IN MIDDLE EAST

Microsoft’s Bing search engine blocks out gay, lesbian, bi and trans search queries in Arab countries according to a report by the Open Net Initiative (ONI). In a test carried out by ONI in January, the Arab version of Bing rejected “homosexuality”, “gay” and “lesbian”...

March 9th, 2010 | Highlights, Technology | Read More