Gay News

The Vancouver Sun has learned that the secretive religious sect known as the Exclusive Brethren is behind an aggressive yet anonymous direct-mail and advertising campaign against gay marriage that has triggered complaints in Parliament and in the media. The sect which shuns relationships with non-members and requires women to wear head scarves in public, organized and funded the campaign. The campaign\\\’s sponsors identify themselves in the anti-gay ads and mail-outs only as "concerned Canadian parents," or CCP, with a post office box address located in a Toronto convenience store. Their meeting rooms, pictured, have no windows. 
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Thailand Thailands government announced that starting in October no person in the country with HIV will go without antiretroviral drugs. This makes them the first country in the world to guarantee the drugs to all patients - for free.  
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Seattle Despite becoming the first Mennonite minister to lose his credentials for officiating a same-sex commitment ceremony a year ago, the Rev. Weldon Nisly continues as pastor of a Seattle Mennonite Church. (Thanks Eric) 
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Chris wanted to convince his family that Virginia wasn\\\’t where they should be going on their little vacation. Unable to find the evidence for himself, he wrote me asking for some online guidance. I told him about virginiaisforhaters.org, only we discovered in the process that the site is no longer online. The site went up right after Virginia passed the most restrictive anti-gay marriage legislation in the country. Where did it go? Apparently it was forced offline "by unknown anti-gay groups." They apparently suffered not one but two denial-of-service attacks. Crazy, eh?Anyway, Chris did have some good words for Queer Day too "Keep up the good fight — despite living in the quasi-homosexual bubble of Manhattan, Queerday is the best place for me to get news from around the country (and world)." Thanks Chris! 
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In Phnom Penh, Cambodian teenage lesbian Yeat Kunthea, 18, bludgeoned her grandmother to death with a rock at the urging of her lesbian lover (Huong Leangcheng, 19). Grandma Lim Veng, 74, discovered their relationship and tried to put an end to it. Seng Sokim, vice chief of police in the northeastern province of Kompong Cham, said Veng\\\’s body was found in a rice field with severe head injuries.  
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Korean Police have issued an arrest warrant for six teenage lesbians on charges of confining and robbing a woman they met online and torturing her for a month. Having met "Cho" through a lesbian website, they locked her up in a room in Dalseo-gu, Daegu city from June 2 until July 5, reportedly because they were angry Cho had recently started seeing another woman. They also subjected her to regular beatings with wounds so severe they\\\’re expected to take 12 weeks to heal. Over $600 was also stolden and they demanded more - or they\\\’d hand her over to a pimp. Cho approached a loan shark who saw her bruises and informed the police. (via Greg) 
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Canada Legal experts say Canada\\\’s top Catholic Cardinal\\\’s claims that gay marriage opponents will face prosecution for publicly denouncing such unions are unfounded and at least one labeled his prophecy as "rhetorical hysteria."  
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South Africa Queenstown police opened fire using rubber bullets and tear gas on a peaceful demonstration that protested delays in rolling out antiretroviral HIV treatments. Ten were treated for gunshot wounds and forty were injured. 
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Maryland The Baltimore Circuit Court will hear oral arguments on July 27 in Deane and Polyak vs. Conaway, a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of several same-sex couples seeking to legalize gay marriage. 
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Ronnie Paris Jr. repeatedly abused his 3-year-old son, Ronnie Antonio Paris, pictured, in an effort to prevent the child from becoming gay - that is until the boy slipped into a coma and ultimately died. The child would shake, wet himself and vomit as Paris forced him into a box and repeatedly slapped him according to testimony from the boy\\\’s mother, Nysheerah Paris. The child died from swelling on both sides of the brain. "He was trying to teach him how to fight," the boy\\\’s aunt, Shanita Powell, told the court. "He was concerned that the child might be gay."  
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According to Variety, it looks like we\\\’re going to see British actor Ralph Fiennes playing gay again this year. After his performance in Chromophobia, directed by his sister Martha, Fiennes and Susan Sarandon are currently working out the details to star in Doris and Bernard, the film based on the life of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her relationship with her gay butler, Bernard Lafferty. Penned by Hugh Costello, the story\\\’s focus is really on Duke\\\’s relationship with Lafferty, to whom she left her entire fortune. Shooting is scheduled to begin this October in New York with Bob Balaban directing.  
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The senior spokesman for majorly homophobic Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum confirmed this weekend that he is gay. Robert Traynham, Director of Communications, said that he was an "out gay man who completely supports the senator," which actually makes him one truly self-loathing individual. Santorum has repeatedly spoken out against gay rights of any kind and has been a leader in placing a ban on same-sex marriage nationally. Responding to the news on Traynham Santorum said 
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