We have come to rely on Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter – our everyday lives so impacted and adjusted accordingly. Thousands of websites are going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, (SOPA) which is designed to thwart copyright infringement but that Web experts warn could threaten the Internet as we know it. … More SOPA BLACKOUT | Google and Wikipedia Go Dark
PRETORIA – The Aids and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa (Arasa) addressed a meeting of Human Rights Defender organizations to discuss human rights issues with a focus on LGBTI issues and how to improve resources for health and responses to homophobia. The two day meeting, in Pretoria, South Africa, began today and brings together human … More LGBTI South Africa | Human Rights Conference Deals with Homophobia and Health Issues
by Melanie Nathan, January 17, 2012 British tennis player Laura Robson defied the Court by wearing a rainbow colored hair band in Melbourne on Monday in support of gay and lesbian rights during her match at the Australian Open. There may well be a lot more to what was meant as a gesture of solidarity … More Australian Open | Laura Robson’s Rainbow Hairband Defies Margaret’s Court
Asylum for LGBTI refugees is fraught with hurdles. Canada has been viewed as a country that provides some measure of promise and hope; but now the Canadian government is proposing changes to regulations pertaining to refugee sponsorship, which could have a dramatic impact on LGBTI applications for asylum. The Department of Citizenship and Immigration (CIC) … More LGBTI Refugees hurt if Canada changes Refugee Sponsorship Program
By Guests Dan Littauer and Sami Hamwi, 13.01.2012 Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) As British Prime Minister, David Cameron visits Saudi Arabia today, activists report the plight of a man arrested by the religious police who may face corporal punishment. Activists are concerned for the safety of a 30-year-old man arrested by the religious … More Saudi Man Arrested for Gay Dating via Facebook
The South African LGBT community is in an uproar about Riekert Botha, a radio evangelical from South Africa who has been spewing anti-gay comments at the expense of the South African taxpayer. South Africa, which has a fully inclusive constitution outlaws discrimination against LGBTI people and have anti-hate speech laws to protect groups against hate … More SABC Allows use of Airwaves to Attract Listeners to Pastor’s Anti- LGBTI Agenda
The South African school year ends in December in time for summer vacation. Oprah Winfrey is in South Africa to attend graduation of the first graduating class of her elite academy and while she has spent millions on this school for underprivileged South African girls, she is now contemplating the question of lways to make … More Oprah Winfrey on First Graduation for South African School – The Class of 2011
The quality of life of 17-year-olds reared in lesbian-parent families did not differ from that of a matched group of adolescents who grew up in heterosexual-parent families, according to a new study published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. The study took 78 17-year-olds from the NLLFS—all of whom have lesbian mothers—and matched them based on … More Study of Teens of Lesbian Parents shows Happy as Teens from Heterosexual Parents
Melanie Nathan, January 10, 2012 President Jacob Zuma arrived in New York on Tuesday ahead of South Africa’s officially assuming the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council for January. “SA will utilize its presidency to continue exploring concrete measures for strengthening the relationship between the United Nations and regional organizations, in particular the African … More Calling South African President Zuma in New York to Speak to AU for LGBT Human Rights
By Guest Dan Littauer, 9.01.2012 The secretary-general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights described homosexuality as a western ”disease,” and said that same-sex marriage was “immoral,” according to a report of Radio Free Europe. General Mohammad Javad Larijani allegedly made these remarks in Tehran during a visit by German Tom Koenigs, who chairs … More LGBT People “are sick” says Iranian Human Rights Official
Melanie Nathan, January 01,2012 Mr. Bernard Sabiti, a self proclaimed social critic in Uganda, with clear political aspirations, and probably a Museveni Regime Bahati sock puppet, has upped the anti-gay ante in his country in an insidious attempt to discredit gays. Activists around the world are responding to Sabiti’s claim in an article he wrote … More Ugandan Monitor Article Suggests Gays Called for their Own Hanging
Is this another “Rolling Stone Uganda” design; Lets get the Homos by social sock puppet Bernard Sabiti!” by Melanie Nathan, Jan 07, 2011 Bernard Sabiti, a self acclaimed Ugandan social critic has written an article ominously entitled “How the Anti-Homosexuality Bill boosted gays agenda in Uganda” where you would think he is about to make … More Ugandan Social Critic Slams Ugandan Gays Under Pretense of AHB Boosting Gay Agenda
By Melanie Nathan, 01/05/2012 When we as Western tourists go to Africa, we go to view nature – to visit tribal villages, to see the dance and hear song; we sit eagerly at waterholes waiting for the lioness to pounce the unsuspecting deer, while the landscape and the vast bush yields to the pristine African … More Gays as Accidental Anti-Gay Tourists in Africa – The Lioness and the Wallet
Science is not a Western import; The only import from the West was the Church of Scott lively and its hate rhetoric – By Melanie Nathan, Jan 03, 2012; Recently Dr James Nsaba Buturo, the resigned Ethic minister from Uganda, made public statements in response to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s international LGBTI rights speech, … More Ugandan Diaspora Gays Condemn Buturo’s Anti-homosexuality Attack on Clinton
Sacrifices 1989 Constitutional safeguard amendments; excludes LGBTI, bans same-sex marriage and abortion Posted by Editor, Jan 03, 2011, BUDAPEST;- Hungary has a new constitution, and it has caused tens of thousand of people to take to the streets. The Constitution which was enacted with a vote of 262-44 in April of last year, bans marriage … More Hungary’s New Constitution Causes Mass Protests
AIDS MARCH planned as precursor to AIDS Conference 2012. By Melanie Nathan, Jan 01, 2012 In July 2012, more than 20,000 HIV advocates will come to Washington, D.C., for the International AIDS Conference. Before the opening ceremonies, AHF and over a thousand organizations from 78 countries are marching to remind governments around the world to … More Huge March Timed for 2012 AIDS Conference in Washington D.C.
Irish Education deserves a secular chance too – for what ye teach ye shall reap; waiting for the day the Church takes its teachings back to the Church; Posted by Melanie, Jan 01, 2012 Patrick Dempsey (19) often pretended to be sick in order to avoid attending school in Dublin’s inner city. The State of … More The State of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual in Irish Catholic Controlled Schools
Posted by Melanie Nathan, Dec 30, 2011 Touting a groundbreaking literary achievement… A US-based Jewish publisher has produced an alphabetical index to the Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud), a work it describes as “a groundbreaking literary achievement.” Now the “HaMafteach” (“The Key”), provides a new indexed reference guide to the Talmud. The Talmud is the 63-volume … More The Talmud gets an Index
“He was then taken away by the police out of the demonstration and told he will not be allowed to use the rainbow flag in the protest any further.” 30 December 2011 | By Guest Dan Littauer LGBT political activists in Russia are reporting abuse at Pro-Democracy rallies across the country through gay protestors being … More Pro-Democracy Russian Movement Homophobic Rejection of LGBT Protestors
by Melanie Nathan, Dec 29, 2011. Updated: Petition Started on change.org see below. Outrageous reasons to deport gay man from Norway; save Azad , a young homosexual man, from deportation back to Iraq. The High Court in Oslo, Norway has turned down the application for political asylum after being petitioned by Azad, a 33 year … More Asking King of Norway to save Gay Iraqi Man Azad from Deportation to Iraq
LEZGETREAL is not a Gay Gals View of the World it is still Bill Graber’s View of the World by Melanie Nathan, Dec 27, 2011, 12.01 am Safely navigating and sailing beyond the blogging scandal of the year, I am happy to say I can look back and gasp a final farewell at those left … More Scandal Continues as Shamed Lesbian Blog Continues the ‘Straight Man’ Lie
by Melanie Nathan; December 26, 2011 Somehow I think the anti-homosexuality strategy on natural order and defilement needs a dramatic overhaul. Xmas is a day of joy and childbirths are highlighted as part of that joy, often heralding religious connotations and meaning. But it is not that way for many as the day brought darkness … More Uganda Scapegoats Homosexuality as 14 Women Die in Childbirth on Xmas Day
The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill was intorduced by MP David Bahati as a Private Member’s Bill on 13 October proposing that a new offence be created in Uganda named “aggravated homosexuality” which would be punishable as a capital offence. The Billincluded plans to introduce the death penalty for gay adults who had sex with those of … More Uganda Opinion Poll
by Melanie Nathan, December 22, 2011 – US officials extradited a Rwandan woman, Marie-Claire Mukeshimana, convicted in absentia by a court in her country for her role in the 1994 genocide, an official said Thursday. Mukeshimana was sentenced in 2009 to 19 years in prison for complicity in the killing of several children who had … More U.S. Extradites Rwandan Woman Convicted for Genocide
by Melanie Nathan, Dec 24, 2011. Thanks to all the seventy donors who contributed to bail for Joseph Bukombe, who was released from Otay Mesa detention center in San Diego late last night. He enjoyed his first meal with friends in San Diego at a Kenyan restaurant and wanted to express his deep appreciation to … More Thanks to Readers: Gay Asylum Detainee Joseph Bukombe is Home For XMAS
“Actions speak louder than words!” by Melanie Nathan Dec 22, 2011. SAN FRANCISCO – Shorty after Secretary Clinton and President Obama spoke out about LGBTI Global human rights, the bloggers and press began to buzz with statements and comments from those impacted by the speech and memo, respectively. The most sought after statements came from … More Americans must Heed the Cry of African LGBTI Victims
Melanie Nathan, December 21 2011 | Women’s Political and Civil Rights in Egypt Here is the statement of Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women, following the attacks on women and children in Egypt. Wednesday, 21 December 2011. I note with great concern the reports of direct attacks in the past few days on … More Michelle Bachelet on the Egyptian Violence against Women & Children
By Melanie Nathan, Dec 21, 2011 Commission extends control over goods which could be used for capital punishment or torture Brussels, 20 December 2011 – The European Commission decided today to extend the list of goods subject to export controls, to prevent their use for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment … More EU Commission Export Control on Lethal Injection
by Melanie Nathan, Dec 20, 2011 Just when we thought we had heard it all from Zimbabwe this week – The notorious gay hating Robert Mugabe being challenged by a politician flip flopping to pro LGBTI equality – to a member of Parliament being arrested for calling Mugabe a homosexual – all here on O-Blog-dee-O-Blog-Da … More Pink Trash Cans Gifted by Gays Cause Furor In Zimbabwe City
Posted by Melanie Nathan ; 12/20/2011 “Way to Dress Robert Mugabe;- What a fellow!” Mrs Lillian Kirenyi, a legislator from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party was on Tuesday charged with undermining the authority of President Mugabe. This is a re-post from the Daily Nation – an Article hard to resist! … More Zimbabwe: MP Arrested – Allegedly called Robert Mugabe a Homosexual
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