Two days after leading Ugandan gay-rights activist David Kato was bludgeoned to death at his home in Kampala, his friends and family gathered for his funeral on Friday. As hundreds of Kato’s supporters mourned, they rejected the police line that he had been the victim of a violent robbery
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China’s Gay Community Fights Online Censorship
When the Beijing LGBT Center screened a prerecorded lecture on gay-themed movies last year, the venue was so packed that latecomers had to jostle for a spot on the windowsills of the rented classroom doubling as their makeshift theater. This year, however, a similar event attracted only a handful of people, leaving much of the same room empty.
The End of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’: A Gay Officer Offers An Inside View of the Military’s Rush to Adapt
What a fascinating time to be a gay man in the U.S.
Born Gay?
What makes people gay? To conservative moralists, homosexuality is a sin, a willful choice of godless evil.
Snyder v. Phelps: A Supreme Court Free-Speech Showdown
“Is this a joke?” a befuddled young woman asked as she stood outside the Supreme Court on the morning of Oct. 6.
In Fight Against AIDS, Kenya Confronts Gay Taboo
Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time refusal to acknowledge the existence of homosexuality and will launch a survey of gay attitudes and behaviors in its three biggest cities next year. The project is considered a landmark because the government and the vast majority of Kenyan people have long refused to address homosexuality in the fight against AIDS
Search resumes for missing Indonesia plane
Rescue planes were dispatched on Monday to look for an aircraft with 15 people on board that disappeared shortly after takeoff in eastern Indonesia.
Adam Lambert: I’m ‘proud of my sexuality’
"American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert confirmed publicly what he assumed everyone already knew: He is gay. “I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I am gay,” Lambert told Rolling Stone magazine