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UK Thousands sexually abused in prison, study suggests | |||||
 | A commission set up by the Howard League for Penal Reform estimated that every year 1-5% of inmates - as many as 4,000 people - could be raped or abused. Some prisoners were coerced into sex to settle debts, while others used it as a way of paying for drugs bbc.co.uk 15 Sep 14 | ||||
CYBER-GAYS Drag queens in Facebook name row | |||||
 | A group of drag queens and transgender performers have called on Facebook to allow stage names rather than real names on the social network. A petition supporting the change has attracted more than 2,000 signatures bbc.co.uk 15 Sep 14 Sign petition | ||||
RUSSIA Moscow forum sends out urgent appeal for more 'Gay Propaganda' bans | |||||
 | World Congress of Families gathering calls for Russian-style "homosexual propaganda" bans to be passed throughout the world rightwingwatch.org 15 Sep 14 Appeal 'to protect children from influences taken against their individuality' Read Appeal 15 Sep 14 | ||||
Secret 'anti-gay' meeting held by Russian oligarch with top politicians in Vienna | |||||
 | A secret meeting discussing ways to rid Europe of the 'satanic gay lobby' was hosted by Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev and attended by a host of far-right MPs and ultra-conservative Eurasian ideologists in Vienna at the weekend - just across the road from where the Life Ball was taking place the very same night austrianindependent.com15 Sep 14 | ||||
GAY TRAVEL IGLTA meets with Ugandan tourism leaders | |||||
 IGLTA Annual Global Convention to be held in Africa for the first time in 2016 tourismupdate.co.za 15 Sep 14 | "We know how LGBT travel can raise awareness both locally and globally, and in that way, we can help to make a difference," said International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association President / CEO John Tanzella edgeonthenet.com 15 Sep 14 Tourism becomes Uganda's main export after it fetched $1.4bn last year observer.ug 15 Sep 14 | ||||
GAY CLUBS My life in gay Soho Colin Vaines says it was his relentless role as a Soho whinger, lobbing in endless complaints to Westminster Council about noise levels that even he, as a dedicated resident, couldn't quite handle huffingtonpost.co.uk 14 Sep 14 SEX - LIFE Kazakhstan to identify gays by searching for degeneratism in their DNA "To preserve the Aryan race it was important that blood was not mixed. Hitler was against all those gay people," said Secretary of the People's Communist Party Yelnur Beisenbayev tengrinews.kz 15 Sep 14 Pennsylvania teenager simulates oral sex with Jesus statue, faces 2 years in prison | |||||
 | Officials charged the teen with desecration of a venerated object, invoking a 1972 Pennsylvania statute that criminalizes "defacing, damaging, polluting or otherwise physically mistreating in a way that the actor knows will outrage the sensibilities of persons likely to observe or discover the action" motherjones.com 15 Sep 14 | ||||
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