The pope’s butler has been arrested by Vatican police on suspicion of leaking confidential letters that expose alleged corruption and nepotism. A Vatican spokesman declined to confirm the arrest, which was widely reported by Italian media last Friday and dubbed ‘Vatileaks’. The butler, Paolo Gabriele, 46, was reportedly detained after an investigation uncovered documents in [...]
Moscow police detained almost all 30 gay rights protesters and 50 church supporters last Sunday. Russian Orthodox church activists broke up the two gay rights protests, water bombing and shouting prayers at protesters. Still other orthodox activists attacked the protesters violently grabbing their rainbow flags and trampling on them in front of television cameras. Almost [...]
The Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) has launched the 2012 Global Men’s Health and Rights Survey (GMHR). Like the inaugural GMHR in 2010, this survey hopes to reveal the state of homophobia, health, human rights and access to health services for gay men and other men who have sex with men. The information [...]
Dr Robert Spizer, the psychiatrist who was instrumental in the removal of homosexuality in the diagnostic manual of psychiatric disorders in 1973 has publicly renounced his later research work that appeared to confirm successful outcomes were possible for ex-gay therapy with ‘highly motivated’ individuals. In a now widely circulated letter sent to Dr Ken Zucker, [...]
Last month the Indian High Commission put up a statement on their website that looks like gay couples and others who are unable to bear children will find it increasingly difficult to access surrogacy services based in India. The notice advised that those seeking surrogacy services must travel on a visa specifying their travel purpose, [...]
Teenager Ivan Kharchenko was rescued by activists after being incarcerated in a rehab centre by his family for coming out. The teenager was placed in unwillingly in the care of Moscow’s Marshak facility on April 13 by his father. Pink News reported that the young man’s father had told the son ‘I’d rather have you [...]
Fighting same-sex marriage equality and abortion is more important than working to alleviate poverty and economic injustice – according to the Vatican. The New York Times reported last month that America’s largest and most influential organisation of nuns, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, has been officially reprimanded for getting these priorities in the wrong [...]
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