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Monday Watercooler: Santorum has a Hughes problem

James Withers — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:23:02 +0000

Santorum wasn’t paying attention in English class. Rick Santorum’s start as a presidential candidate hit a speed bump over Langston Hughes. The former Pennsylvania senator’s website cribbed its(...)

No place for gay Filipino man in Korean graduate school

logointern2 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:00:44 +0000

A Filipino man was expelled from a Korean graduate school for being gay, reports the Asian Correspondent.

‘P’, who is anonymous, was a student from the Philippines who arrived in Seoul in(...)

Mall removes lesbian couple from shopping mall for “PDA”; apologizes

logointern1 — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:00:42 +0000

Outside a mall in Raleigh, North Carolina, about 100 demonstrators protested Cameron Village shopping center’s decision to dismiss a lesbian couple from its grounds because of their “sexual(...)

UK bartender targeted in anti-gay attack

logointern2 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:00:57 +0000

Gay bartender Dane Holdsorth, 21, claims he was targeted in a violent anti-gay assault Friday night.

According to BBC, while walking home from, Holdsworth was approached by a group of men and(...)

20 Zimbabwe school girls arrested for being lesbians

logointern2 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:00:31 +0000

Twenty high school girls have been arrested in Bulawaya, Zimbabwe for allegedly having lesbian relationships.

According to Zim Diaspora, Eveline High school headmistress Rosemary Moyo has(...)

Study: Gays misrepresented in British media

logointern2 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:03:23 +0000

LGBT non-profit group Stonewall issued a report Thursday, revealing that gay and lesbian characters are misrepresented on British television.

In a study entitled “Unseen on Screen,”(...)

Lawyers claim judge is biased in anti-gay murder trial

logointern2 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:00:25 +0000

The lawyers representing a teenage boy on trial for the murder of his gay classmate want the trial judge to step down from the proceedings.

According to Ventura Country Star, the attorneys for(...)

Anna Nicole’s gay doctor unfairly prosecuted?

logointern2 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:00:26 +0000

A doctor on trial for the murder of actress Anna Nicole Smith claims that he has been unfairly prosecuted because he is gay and of an ethnic minority, TMZ reported.

Dr. Sandeep Kapoor has been(...)

CNN: Is there a need for a gay cure?

logointern1 — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:00:57 +0000

In a controversial segment aired Tuesday, news anchor Kyra Phillips explores the question of whether there is a need to cure homosexuality.

Rep. Bonnie Lowenthal, the California assemblywoman(...)

Polish woman fined for verbally abusing gay neighbor

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:00:43 +0000

(Poland) A Polish woman has been ordered by a judge to cease from calling her neighbor, Ryszard Giersz, gay slurs and was ordered to pay him the equivalent of more than $5,000.

Regarded as(...)