As expected, after persuading Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika to pardon Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called upon the African country to reform its anti-gay laws, not only in Malawi but “where ever it may exist.” Ban, in a speech, repeatedly praised the president for his “courageous” ruling to release and pardon the two men, convicted of unnatural acts and gross indecency, and sentenced to 14 years in prison with hard labour. They were arrested December 28th, and have been held in custody since. Mutharika, despite his decision to free the two, did so while expressing disapproval, saying “our traditions and culture do not allow gay marriage. In all aspects of reasoning, in all aspects of human understanding, these two gay boys were wrong, totally wrong.” Ban, who is scheduled to tour a number of African states where homosexuality is illegal, said that “each and every member state, they have their own domestic laws, regulations, traditions, religious beliefs and convictions that we (the UN) respect. But when those values and laws and traditions, if they are not consistent with basic international human rights or basic international standards, it is the responsibility of the leaders to reform or change or adapt.”
44 year old David Lewis, the United Kingdom’s new Coalition Government’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has resigned barely three weeks into his tenure, after being outed, Lewis having illegally paid his boyfriend, James Lundie, a political lobbyist, an estimated $ 2000 a month for five years.
Neil Patrick Harris surprised boyfriend David Burtka with a party to celebrate David’s 35th birthday Friday in New York City, the twosome the cutest couple going, perhaps ever.
Chace Crawford, scruffy and sexy, smoulders.
Someone named Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (apparently he is a Ultimate Fighting Championship star as a well as a former light-weight boxing champion) is inexplicably profiled by the Los Angeles Times, Jackson staring in the upcoming Bradley Cooper film version of The A-Team, which was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Jackson at one point is quoted as saying “acting is gay” and that “Vancouver strikes me as a San Francisco-kind of place,” the former quote used by the Times as the headline of the waste of space.
Male model hotness and soccer equates the World Cup of male modelling.
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