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”There has been no problem for me to be openly gay as Head Coach in the USA team.,” said soccer coach Pia Sundhage at Nyhetsmorgon, TV4 on Saturday morning.

New laws that do good things for gays took effect in California Jan. 1.

The gay group Inclusive Foundation was raided by police in Tbilisi, Georgia, Dec. 15 and the organization’s leader, Paata Sabelashvili, was jailed for two weeks.

Three members of GayBelarus were fined a total of about $467 Dec. 23 for picketing the Iranian Embassy in Minsk to protest Iran’s treatment of gay people.

Five states down, 45 and D.C. to go. Gays started marrying in New Hampshire on Jan. 1 at the stroke of midnight.

Twenty-four men were arrested at a house in Saly, Senegal, on Christmas Eve for ”homosexual activities,” local media said.

A gay male couple legally married in Argentina Dec. 28.

The European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon, which came into force Dec. 1, incorporates the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the only international governmental document that bans di…

Stockholm gay community celebrates Pink Christmas and Santa Lucia December 11-13. Three days of party but also culture and Church of Swedens Rainbow Mass with Stockholms newly c…

The Church of Sweden consecrated the world’s first openly lesbian bishop in a mainstream denomination Nov. 8.

President Barack Obama’s administration published a rule Nov. 2 that will end the U.S. ban on HIV-positive foreign visitors and immigrants. The change will take effect in January.

Gays lost marriage in Maine on Nov. 3. A ”people’s veto” at the ballot box wiped out the law passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor. It had not taken effect, pendi…

President Barack Obama signed a GLBT-inclusive hate-crimes law Oct. 28. It was attached to the 2010 defense-spending bill.

The Church of Sweden will marry same-sex couples, the general synod decided Oct. 22 in a 176-62 vote.