
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)

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)

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)
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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)
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)

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)

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)

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)

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)