The Center for Development of People, a Malawi human rights organization, is calling for a national referendum to legalize homosexuality in the African country.
The New York Times editorial damming Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, writing that the “United States and others need to make clear to the Ugandan government that such barbarism is intolerable and will make it an international pariah,” adding that “Corruption and repression – including violence against women and children and abuse of prisoners – are rife in Uganda. According to The Times’ Jeffrey Gettleman, officially sanctioned homophobia is particularly acute. Gay Ugandans are tormented with beatings, blackmail, death threats and what has been described as “correctional rape,” concluding that “the American government and others, should make clear to Uganda that if this legislation becomes law, it will lose millions of dollars in foreign aid and be shunned globally.”
While the South African National Blood Service is desperate for donors, the East Cape Gay and Lesbian Association questions the Blood Service’s discriminatory donation protocol that bans gay men and transgendered from contributing unless and until they have abstained from homosexual sex for at least six months.
Police in Santa Cruz, California are investigated a hate crime that occurred early Sunday, that has two individuals jailed and a warrant issued for a third, after a gay man in his 30’s was verbally assaulted outside the Blue Lagoon club, then beaten inside the club, and later robbed.
Although the motive remains a mystery, Jesus Lutz photographed underwater.
Jesus Datolo, an Italian soccer star, photographed in his underwear for Italian gay magazine Romeo, now faces sanctions by the Napoli club president Aurelio De Laurentis, who says he does not object to the pictures or that they appear in a gay magazine, but because “the image of Napoli rights have been violated.”
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