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Dead British Spy Not Gay Says Friends, Family And Investigators

Written on 31 Aug, 2010 at 19:26 in Crime, Featured, News, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/31/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire “He’s not dead, he’s pining.” Er…sorry, he is not gay. That is what investigators, family and friends of Gareth Williams have stated. The MI6 spy who may have been murdered does not appear to... (Continue reading)

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Fidel Castro Takes Responsibility For Injustices Towards Lesbians, Gays In Cuba

Written on 31 Aug, 2010 at 17:17 in Featured, News, World | viewed times | 1 Comment

08/31/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire For the first time, Fidel Castro has admitted that there was persecution of lesbians and gays prior to the nation’s decriminalization of homosexuality in 1979. Often times, gay men were sent to labor camps without trial. “They... (Continue reading)

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NOM Calls New Zealand Exodus Decision An Earthquake, Says ‘Christian is like Racist’

Written on 31 Aug, 2010 at 13:11 in Featured, News, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/31/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire “An earthquake is beginning: If ‘gay is like black,’ then ‘Christian is like racist.’ The early warning signs are now taking place all over the globe. In New Zealand, Exodus Ministries was just stripped of its tax-exempt... (Continue reading)

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New Arabic-language Website to Tackle ‘Taboo’ Gay Issues

Written on 30 Aug, 2010 at 13:29 in Entertainment, Featured, Internet, News, Special Reports, World | viewed times | 1 Comment

Melanie Nathan; 8-30-10- Editors say Qadita.net will be the first Arabic website to include a section on gay and lesbian writing, including reviews of Arab gay-oriented cinema and literature. Two prominent Israeli-Arab literary figures yesterday launched www.Qadita.net, an... (Continue reading)

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Tel Aviv Schools Introduce Program to Thwart Sexual Orientation Stereotyping

Written on 30 Aug, 2010 at 13:11 in Family, Featured, LGBT Children, LGBT Rights, News, Special Reports, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

By Melanie Nathan; 8-30-10 The Education Committee of the Tel Aviv municipality is the first in Israel to require city schools to integrate learning content to change stereotypes about gays, lesbians and gender identity. The program will start next January. The Education... (Continue reading)

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President Obama Can you Please wish Gilad a Happy Birthday?

Written on 29 Aug, 2010 at 1:49 in A Gay Girl's View, Commentary, Featured, Mainstream Mix, Military, News, World | viewed times | 2 Comments

Melanie Nathan – August 28  2010; JERUSALEM — Israelis demonstrated in Jerusalem in the thousands in support of Gilad Shalit, marking the soldier’s 24th birthday and his fifth as a captive of Palestinian Islamists in the Gaza Strip. He was a child... (Continue reading)

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Conservative UK Minister Crispin Blunt Comes Out

Written on 28 Aug, 2010 at 23:22 in Break Ups and Divorce, Coming Out, Commentary, Family, Family Life, Featured, Hot Topics, News, Relationships, Special Reports, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

Melanie Nathan 08-28-10 London:- Conservative Crispin Blunt, who is prisons minister in the coalition government has disclosed that he is gay and that he has separated from his wife. Blunt said he had “decided to come to terms with his homosexuality”. In... (Continue reading)

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Muslim Gay Man Rescued by Israeli Police

Written on 26 Aug, 2010 at 15:06 in Crime, Featured, News, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

Melanie Nathan 8-26-10 The Jerusalem Post, is reporting that “Four men from the Muslim village of Tamra, 20 km. east of Acre, were arrested on Tuesday night on suspicion of kidnapping a 19-year-old gay relative because of his... (Continue reading)

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Nepal Celebrates First International Gay Parade

Written on 26 Aug, 2010 at 12:57 in Featured, News, Video Posts, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

Melanie Nathan 8-26-10 Hundreds of gays, lesbians, LGBTQI and their supporters from around the country danced through the Nepalese capital in the country’s first international gay parade. Nepal’s gay community has added some extra colour to the traditional ... (Continue reading)

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Finnish Lutherans Open To Debate On Accepting Same-Sex Marriages

Written on 26 Aug, 2010 at 11:15 in Featured, News, Religion, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/26/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The Lutheran Bishop of Espoo, in Finland, Mikko Heikka has signaled the openness of the Lutheran Church to, as he put it, “gender-neutral marriage”, or in more common parlance, same-sex marriage.  Throughout the column that he wrote,... (Continue reading)

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Letter to SA Consul Re Corrective Rape of Lesbians

Written on 24 Aug, 2010 at 16:42 in Anti-Gay, Crime, Featured, News, Rants & Raves, Special Reports, Women's Rights, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

National Assembly Building Cape Town Melanie Nathan – 8-24-10 I wrote an article here on Lez Get Real a few days ago;  August 21, 2010- and it received a wide net response.  The  offers of support  prompted me to send a letter... (Continue reading)

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400 Clash Over Marriage Equality In Mexico

Written on 23 Aug, 2010 at 11:30 in Featured, LGBT Rights, News, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/23/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The plaza next to the cathedral in Guadalajara was the site for a massive class of the demonstrators. Both sides- Gay Rights activists and Roman Catholics- yelled insults at each other over the recent decision by... (Continue reading)

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Transwoman Humiliated, Raped In Moscow

Written on 22 Aug, 2010 at 10:57 in Crime, Featured, News, Trans News, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/22/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Moscow police are looking for two men who sexually abused a well-known stylist from Central Asia not long after she had her sex change operation.  The transwoman from Kyrgyzstan was raped by two men from her home... (Continue reading)

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Shock Photo as Lesbian Warrior Tells of yet Another Corrective Rape Victim

Written on 22 Aug, 2010 at 4:56 in Anti-Gay, Commentary, Crime, Featured, Hot Topics, News, Op-Eds, Photo Posts, Women's Rights, World | viewed times | 3 Comments

Melanie Nathan; 08-21-10- South Africa is known as the ‘Rape Capital’ of the world, with mind blowing statistics of around 500,000 rapes per year.   This is a human rights catastrophe  of untold proportion- with the HIV/AIDS ramification serving as the... (Continue reading)

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Van Gogh Painting Stolen -Suspects Apprehended

Written on 21 Aug, 2010 at 22:24 in Featured, News, Photo Posts, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

Melanie Nathan;  August 21, 2010: Egyptian authorities stopped two people suspected in the theft of a painting, “Poppy Flowers” by Vincent Van Gogh,   moments before they were to board a plane and flee the country, according to Egypt’s... (Continue reading)

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