Tuesday 22 July 2014

UK No to gay pardons
	UK Ministers last night rejected a call for convictions for homosexual acts to be posthumously disregarded. LibDem Lord Sharkey led the move after a posthumous pardon was given last year to war-time codebreaker Alan Turing heraldscotland.com 22 Jul 14
Trojan Horse school chief wants gays sent into exile
	Shahid Akmal was the chairman of governors at Nansen Primary School in Birmingham, where music was banned. He defended jailing or exiling gays and adulterers under Sharia Law as a "moral position to hold" mirror.co.uk 22 Jul 14
Human rights activists call for action on Commonwealth LGBTI rights record
	Over 150 human rights activists including speakers from around the world came together in Glasgow on Friday to call for the Commonwealth to respect the human rights of LGBTI people kaleidoscopetrust.com 22 Jul 14
KaleidoScot provides a voice for a growing community
	New online publication aims to provide news about all the important community issues in Scotland alongside arts, culture and sports coverage kaleidoscot.com 22 Jul 14
GAY EMPLOYMENT Straight business students are crashing gay job fairs
	Only one of the 15 students from Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business who attended a conference in New Orleans last year was openly gay, says Reaching Out MBA businessweek.com 22 Jul 14 reachingoutmba.org
USA Obama names record number of gay Federal Judges
	The president's record on the issue - he's seen 10 gay or lesbian lifetime-appointed judges confirmed - reflects both his declared mission to diversify the courts and the widespread cultural shift in acceptance of gays and lesbians in public life nationallawjournal.com 22 Jul 14
WORLD Indian Government has no plans to amend Section 377
	The Modi govenment said it has no plans to amend or repeal Section 377, criminalising sex among homosexuals, till the issue is settled by India's Supreme Court - which in December threw the ball back into Parliament's court to amend the law indianexpress.com 22 Jul 14
Working toward a Caribbean that's no longer anti-gay
	Fundamentalist religious groups across the region have mounted large demonstrations condemning homosexuality, and appear to have successfully lobbied local governments to keep these British colonially imposed anti-gay laws 76crimes.com 22 Jul 14

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