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Uganda’s David Bahati admits he wants to “kill every last gay person”

Written on 31 Aug, 2010 at 12:27 in Featured | viewed times | 5 Comments

08/31/2010 by JR Russell Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, went to Uganda and spoke to the author of the much discussed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, David Bahati. Sharlet has written an article about his visit... (Continue reading)

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In Uganda, Marriage spreads HIV

Written on 26 Aug, 2010 at 4:20 in Featured | viewed times | 0 Comments

by JR Rusell 08/26/2010 Image via Wikipedia A new report released by the Uganda AIDS Commission has shown that increasingly, HIV infections in Uganda are being spread by unfaithful married couples. A study from 2006 shows that up to 16% of women and... (Continue reading)

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Caught on CCTV: English woman throws kitten in garbage can

Written on 23 Aug, 2010 at 17:38 in Featured | viewed times | 2 Comments

The RSPCA are investigating why a woman threw a kitten in the trash after the kitten’s family discovered the cruel act on their CCTV. The kitten, named Lola, had been missing for 16 hours when her owners heard her meowing from... (Continue reading)

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4000 March for Marriage Equality in Dublin, Ireland

Written on 22 Aug, 2010 at 16:33 in Featured | viewed times | 2 Comments

08/22/2010 by JR Russell It seems like just yesterday that Civil Partnerships were passed by the Irish Dáil and Seanad. It was, in fact, not that long ago at all. It’s so recent that it will still be some months before... (Continue reading)

Pope Rejects Irish Bishops’ Resignations

Written on 11 Aug, 2010 at 11:42 in Featured | viewed times | 0 Comments

Image via Wikipedia Newspaper The Irish Catholic is reporting that the reluctantly offered resignations of Bishops Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field have been rejected by Pope Benedict XVI. Both bishops presided over dioceses that were involved in the cynical cover up of... (Continue reading)

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Ireland passes Civil Partnership Bill: Excuse me if I don’t feel like dancing

Written on 13 Jul, 2010 at 2:51 in Featured | viewed times | 1 Comment

12/07/2010 by JR Russell On the eve of my fifth wedding anniversary, I sat at the computer, my eyes and ears glued to the live feed from the Seanad Éireann (the Irish Senate) as they discussed the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights... (Continue reading)

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Daily Monitor journalist investigates Uganda’s gays

Written on 11 Jul, 2010 at 16:51 in Featured | viewed times | 0 Comments

07/11/2010 by JR Russell Image via Wikipedia Most of what we know about gay people is that they are men who dress almost in a feminine way and talk softly or have feminine attributes. All the gay men I spoke to and... (Continue reading)

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Beheading story of gay Ugandan a hoax

Written on 7 Jul, 2010 at 11:23 in Featured | viewed times | 0 Comments

Image via Wikipedia Here is what we do know: a young man was brutally murdered, that he was mutilated and his head was cut off and dumped into a latrine. That much is true. But we have now confirmed that the... (Continue reading)

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Severed head of missing gay Ugandan discovered

Written on 6 Jul, 2010 at 10:38 in Featured | viewed times | 0 Comments

Image via Wikipedia The head has been identified as belonging to farm worker, Pasikali Kashusbe, whose body was discovered nearby earlier in the week. Kashusbe was active with Integrity Uganda, an LGBTI support group, with his partner Abbey. Together, they have increased youth... (Continue reading)

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Ireland Passes Civil Partnership Bill

Written on 2 Jul, 2010 at 3:50 in Featured | viewed times | 2 Comments

Image via Wikipedia Ireland’s parliament has passed the Civil Partnership Bill. The version passed has no conscience clause, so service providers will not be able to opt-out of civil partnerships because of personal or religious beliefs. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland in 1993... (Continue reading)

Castro Pink Saturday shooting victim dies, age 19

Written on 27 Jun, 2010 at 15:18 in Featured, News | viewed times | 0 Comments

Stephen Powell, 19,  who had previously been reported as in critical condition due to a gunshot wound to his torso has died from his injuries. The two other victims, a 19 year-old woman and a 29 year -old man are expected... (Continue reading)

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Three shot in Castro during Pink Saturday Pre-Pride Street Party

Written on 27 Jun, 2010 at 3:56 in Featured, News | viewed times | 7 Comments

San Francisco’s Pride weekend has taken a sombre and violent turn as the San Francisco Police Department reports that three people have been shot outside a gay bar on Market and Castro St. The area has been sealed off, and the... (Continue reading)

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Alabama Senator Sessions tells us the Republicans have nothing on Kagan

Written on 17 Jun, 2010 at 13:09 in Featured | viewed times | 0 Comments

06/17/2010 by JR Russell Achieving a new record in the sport of “grasping at straws”, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama decided to attack the president’s Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan,  for being part of a university that opened a Centre for... (Continue reading)

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General Petraeus faints during Afghanistan Hearings

Written on 15 Jun, 2010 at 10:54 in Featured, News | viewed times | 0 Comments

Image via Wikipedia General David Petraeus refused transport to hospital by ambulance after appearing to  faint during a scheduled Armed Services Hearing on Afghanistan. General Petraeus has said that not only does he believe that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell should be repealed,... (Continue reading)

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Greencoat Boy Update: London pub suspends manager accused of homophobia

Written on 6 Jun, 2010 at 16:51 in Featured, News | viewed times | 1 Comment

Punch Taverns, the company that manages London pub, The Greencoat Boy, has issued a media statement this evening. Yesterday, the LGBT branch of the UK Labour political party were told they were unwelcome in the central London pub. According to accounts, they... (Continue reading)

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