Despite condemnation by both Britain and Canada, Uganda appears defiant and determined to proceed with the passing of the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, that bill’s sponsor, Member of Parliament David Bahati, saying that Uganda will not retreat from enacting the bill that proposes the death penalty for acts of “aggravated homosexuality,” insisting that Ugandans “believe that homosexuality is not a common value for the commonwealth. There is no amount of pressure or intimidation that can deter us from defending our traditional family ser up.”
The rather remarkable tale of Craig Hoyle, a 20 year old gay man who defied the instructions of the Exclusive Brethren, a religious sect, often deemed a extremist cult, that forbids homosexuality, and who was finally ex-communicated after resisting attempts to cure him of being gay by a forced round of hormonal suppressant drugs.
This Tuesday, Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Di Bello, together for three years, will make history, becoming the first the gay couple in Argentina to legally marry. And it would be folly to suggest that the formal ceremony to take place in the country’s capital city of Buenos Aires is not bigger than both men, generating a conversation of social change in a county whose Catholicism and tradition creates a climate less than welcoming to change of any kind.
Police in Liverpool, England have released a videotape that shows some of the teenage boys wanted in connection to vicious attack on a 19 year old gay man Wednesday November 18, that I previously posted about. The young man, a Liverpool community college student who suffered substantial injuries in the attack, has just arrived in the city in the early evening when he was set upon by the group, who punched him from behind, and continued to assault him while yelling anti-gay slurs.
The story, so far, of 42 year old Kerry Bell, a police officer with the Bountiful, Utah force for fourteen years, born female, who began transitioning to male a year and a half ago.
Out Word Bound, the only gay and lesbian bookstore in Indianapolis, Indiana, is closing, the two owners, Mary Byrne and Tammara Tracy writing an email to customers Wednesday, relaying the news, saying “it has been a good run." The store, which has been a focal point of the city’s homosexual community, opened in 1998, and according to Byrne and Tracy continues to be successful, but they say they each lack the time needed to own and operate a small business.
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