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ZAMBIAN COUPLE ACCUSED OF BEING GAY REMAIN JAILED:
The ordeal of the two young Zambian men arrested in May on charges of homosexuality continues as they remain jailed while awaiting the start of their trial.
CORRECTED: GAY RIGHTS SUPPORTER KILLED IN SKINHEAD ATTACK:
A wave of French anti-gay sentiment may have turned deadly after an 18-year-old gay rights supporter in Paris was killed in a brutal attack by a group of skinheads.
ZAMBIAN ACTIVIST’S CASE GOES TO HIGH COURT:
A Zambian court has agreed that the case against HIV activist Paul Kasonkomona, who was arrested for publicly calling for LGBT equality, centres on the right to freedom of speech.
GLOBAL SURVEY: MOST SOUTH AFRICANS REJECT GAYS:
In a new survey on attitudes towards gay people across the globe, South Africa is the only country to have legalised same-sex marriage in which the majority disapprove of homosexuality.
95 PEOPLE IN SA HAVE CHANGED GENDER SINCE 2004:
Despite the Department of Home Affairs continuing to block or delay transgender and intersex people’s efforts to do so, 95 South Africans have succeeded in legally changing their gender since 2004.
GAY PANIC DEFENCE REARS ITS HEAD IN SA:
As US lawyers prepare to vote on the use of the ‘gay panic defence’, recent South African court cases have seen suspects justifying their attacks because the victims allegedly came on to them.
SCHOOL’S GAY ‘CUTEST COUPLE’ GO TO THE PROM:
The two gay teens who made international headlines after being voted their New York school’s ‘cutest couple’ have attended the prom together. Watch the video!
HOUSE OF LORDS MOVES GAY MARRIAGE FORWARD:
Britain's traditionally stuffy House of Lords has voted overwhelmingly against an effort to scupper a same-sex marriage bill, moving it closer to becoming law.
LGBT NIGERIANS DEMAND NEW ANTI-GAY LAW BE RESCINDED:
The EU condemned Nigeria’s newly-passed anti-gay legislation, while local human rights activists have demanded that it be rescinded.
GAY ‘CUTEST SCHOOL COUPLE’ GO VIRAL:
A picture of two gay American high school students who were named their school's cutest couple has gone viral after it was posted online.