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More than 400 gay activists gathered at the Los Angeles Convention Center Jan. 24 to organize and strategize to win back same-sex marriage in California. But attendees at the da…

The Swedish Embassy donated $340,000 to promote GLBT, and especially lesbian rights in Vietnam on Jan. 6.

Nine gay men in Dakar, Senegal, were jailed for eight years Jan. 6 for the crimes of having gay sex and belonging to a ”criminal association,” an HIV-services group.

New laws that took effect in California Jan. 1 protect GLBT seniors and foster youth, and insert ”sexual orientation” and ”gender identity” language into several civil rights la…

Two Swedish Lutheran ministers, Lars Gårdfeldt and Lars Arnell, have lost their final appeal in a case seeking recognition of their Canadian same-sex marriage.

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Dec. 23 ”strongly objecting” to the refusal by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations to jo…

Despite a constitutional ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation and its being one of only six nations where same-sex couples can marry, South Africa remains deeply …

Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare will strike six sexual diagnoses from the nation’s official list of medical diagnoses on Jan. 1, Stockholm’s The Local newspaper re…

The state Church of Norway needs to create a special marriage liturgy for gay couples, given that they will have access to full marriage starting in January, South Hålogaland Bi…

Gays lost marriage at the ballot box in California Nov. 4.

Sweden’s four-party government coalition has had trouble agreeing on a measure to legalize same-sex marriage, but the law should be in place by the middle of next year nonethel…

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal of a lower-court decision that awarded $2,576 in damages to a woman to whom a kennel refused to sell a dog because the woman is a lesbian.

Some 3,000 people protested the passage of Proposition 8 outside the Mormon temple complex in Los Angeles’ Westwood district Nov. 6.

Some $3.9 million was raised in Hollywood Oct. 21 to fight Proposition 8, the proposed state constitutional amendment that would re-ban same-sex marriage in California. The meas…