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Reuters-Africa, Posted: 8/5/2010, 5:44 PM QUICK LOOK: A Sudanese court on Wednesday sentenced 19 young Muslim men to 30 lashes and a fine for breaking moral codes by wearing women's clothes and makeup, a case exposing Sudanese... (MORE) |
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BBC, Posted: 7/19/2010, 1:46 PM QUICK LOOK: Doctors are advising football fans who went to the World Cup in South Africa to check their HIV status if they had unprotected sex on their trip. Up to 25,000 England... (MORE) |
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Agence France Presse (AFP), Posted: 7/19/2010, 11:17 AM QUICK LOOK: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said the country will not listen to those who want gay rights to be mentioned in a draft of the new constitution, state media reported... (MORE) |
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Agence France Presse (AFP), Posted: 7/19/2010, 9:41 AM QUICK LOOK: The World Bank released two studies Sunday linking cash payments to Malawian and Tanzanian youths with "significantly lower" rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted... (MORE) |
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Christian Science Monitor, Posted: 7/17/2010, 6:24 AM QUICK LOOK: HIV infections among young adults have plummeted in 15 of the world's worst-affected countries, according to a new UN report that credits the improvements to positive... (MORE) |
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National Public Radio (NPR), Posted: 7/16/2010, 8:07 AM QUICK LOOK: Martin Ssempa, who pastors the evangelical Makerere Community Church in Kampala, has become the face of Uganda's anti-homosexuality movement. He has organized anti-gay... (MORE) |
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Edge Boston, Posted: 7/7/2010, 7:24 PM QUICK LOOK: The GLBT site that broke the story in America of a murdered, beheaded Ugandan GLBT equality activist now says that while a murder and beheading did take place, the identity... (MORE) |
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Lez Get Real, Posted: 7/6/2010, 11:56 AM QUICK LOOK: Editor's note: This report has subsequently been questioned as a hoax. Details... (MORE) |
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Salem Statesman Journal (Ore.), Posted: 6/28/2010, 6:32 AM QUICK LOOK: The first four of the transplants, which occurred in 2008, were described in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Five more have been done since then... (MORE) |
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Blabbeando, Posted: 6/20/2010, 3:30 PM QUICK LOOK: WATCH: What's up with the Argentina soccer world cup team and their latest obsession with homosex? The latest: Back in May, before the tournament began, team coach and... (MORE) |
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The Guardian (U.K.), Posted: 6/8/2010, 5:39 PM QUICK LOOK: They became an international cause celebre after being sentenced to 14 years in prison under Malawi's draconian laws against homosexuality. But today the story of Steven... (MORE) |
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Reuters-U.S., Posted: 6/8/2010, 9:03 AM QUICK LOOK: A United Nations committee that decides which nongovernmental organizations can be accredited to the world body moved on Thursday to keep out the International Gay and... (MORE) |
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The Examiner, Posted: 6/2/2010, 3:56 PM QUICK LOOK: One-half of the Malawian couple who were imprisoned for marrying and then pardoned last week by President Bingu wa Mutharika is missing, according to the Zambia Watchdog... (MORE) |
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The Guardian (U.K.), Posted: 6/1/2010, 5:05 PM QUICK LOOK: A gay couple sentenced to serve 14 years in jail in Malawi have been pardoned after their country's president met Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general. Steven Monjeza,... (MORE) |
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Bloomberg News Service, Posted: 5/28/2010, 6:00 AM QUICK LOOK: South African President Jacob Zuma condemned the arrest and imprisonment of homosexuals in Malawi, saying his government has raised the issue with the East African nation... (MORE) |
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The Economist, Posted: 5/27/2010, 8:25 PM QUICK LOOK: Their crimes were “gross indecency” and “unnatural acts”. Their sentence was 14 years’ hard labour: one intended, said the judge, to scare others. He has succeeded. A... (MORE) |
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Pink News (U.K.), Posted: 5/27/2010, 4:22 PM QUICK LOOK: A court in Harare, Zimbabwe, has today released on bail the two employees of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) organisation who were arrested last Friday. Their... (MORE) |
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The Telegraph (U.K.), Posted: 5/27/2010, 2:56 AM QUICK LOOK: A concert by Sir Elton John has tested the limits of Morocco's drive for modernity, exposing the Muslim nation's complex and ambiguous attitudes toward homosexuality... (MORE) |
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Voice of America, Posted: 5/26/2010, 7:21 AM QUICK LOOK: The two gay activists were arrested following a search of the group’s offices in Milton Park, Harare, by police who told them they were looking for pornographic material,... (MORE) |
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New York Daily News, Posted: 5/21/2010, 1:04 PM QUICK LOOK: An outraged Madonna ripped a Malawi judge for sentencing an engaged gay couple couple to 14 years of hard labor - based strictly on their sexual orientation. "I am shocked... (MORE) |
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BBC, Posted: 5/20/2010, 3:34 PM QUICK LOOK: A judge in Malawi has imposed a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison with hard labour on a gay couple convicted of gross indecency and unnatural acts. The judge said... (MORE) |
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The Independent (U.K.), Posted: 5/18/2010, 10:37 PM QUICK LOOK: The successful eradication of smallpox 30 years ago and the subsequent ending of the mass vaccination campaign of the 1960s and 1970s may have unwittingly created the... (MORE) |
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New York Times, Posted: 5/18/2010, 9:45 PM QUICK LOOK: A gay couple in Malawi were found guilty on Tuesday of unnatural acts and gross indecency, the consequence of their holding an engagement ceremony in an insular nation... (MORE) |
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CBS News, Posted: 4/23/2010, 8:30 AM QUICK LOOK: When it comes to combating HIV/AIDS, singer Annie Lennox knows how to make a statement. But during Wednesday night's "Idol Gives Back," her "HIV Positive" T-shirt had... (MORE) |
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Daily Record (U.K.), Posted: 4/13/2010, 1:43 PM QUICK LOOK: Men have been trafficked into Scotland to be used as gay sex slaves. In the first known cases of male sex trafficking to hit Scotland, two men were smuggled in from Africa... (MORE) |
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