"A vote last week by the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Committee has LGBT and human rights activists outraged over the decision to remove "sexual orientation" from a resolution that protects people from arbitrary executions.

"But the delegation has recently received hints from Spain that their arrival may cause anger among local pro-Palestinian groups, which may require excess security and, more importantly, cause a lot of embarrassment

Over the past few weeks, news reports have surfaced about a rise in attacks and killings of gays throughout Iraq, where men "both professed and allegedly gay "are being targeted and harassed.

"As the murder campaign targeting Iraqi gays intensifies, a leading Arabic television network last week revealed the use of a horrifying new form of lethal torture against Iraqi gay men - anti-gay Shiite death squads are sealing their anuses with a powerful glue, then inducing di …

"he recent passage of California's Proposition 8 has exposed some of the latent racism of many within the LGBT community—instigated in part by many in the e-telligentsia such as revisionist Andrew Sullivan and sex advisor turned sociologist Dan Savage.

"Four gay men, some of them transvestites, were arrested on October 23 in a park of the Jordanian capital city of Amman, the gay French magazine Têtu recently reported. "

"The "improved" security situation in Iraq is not benefiting all Iraqis, especially not those who are gay.

"A leading gay activist in Iraq has been assassinated. 27 year old Bashar was targeted by gunmen yesterday. He was one of the organisers of safe houses for gay men in Baghdad and was co-ordinator of Iraqi LGBT in the city.

Recently, with the news of California's courts overturning the ban on gay marriages I have come across all sorts of comments and people on newsvine whom I have never encountered before seeing as I come from a liberal upbringing surrounded by accepting friends and educated commu …

Howard Bayless has become the first openly gay man elected to public office in Alabama, according to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, which endorsed him.