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GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA: Police raided a gay fitness centre in Pulau Tikus here where patrons are required to show their private parts before they are allowed entry.

The centre was only known in the gay community through word of mouth. And those who did not know how to “flash” their manhood would be denied entry.

Two men, in their 30s, were caught in a compromising position when a … Read all
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A coalition of groups has called on the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland to to intervene on St Petersburg’s anti-gay law.

Edinburgh is twinned with the Russian city, whose lawmakers passed an initial vote on a “gay propaganda” law last year by 27 to 1.

Amid international condemnation, a further vote on the bill, which threatens the voice of the city’s gay community, was postpo… Read all
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Three of the defendants accused of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation have been found guilty by a jury in Derby.

Five Muslim men stood trial at Derby Crown Court on the charges, which carry a maximum sentence of seven years in prison and an unlimited fine.

They are the first convictions under the newly-created laws.

Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed and Razwan … Read all
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Central midfielder and Queens Park Rangers captain Joey Barton attributed gay professional footballers’ fear of coming out to managers’ discrimination.

Barton told a BBC3 documentary: “Certain managers will discriminate,” and “these archaic figures think if they had a gay footballer there would be all kinds of shenanigans in the dressing room.”

Max Clifford, who has apparently kn… Read all
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The jury at the Scottish trial of Craig Roy, accused of killing gay teenager, Jack Frew, has heard claims that the defendant was being blackmailed by the schoolboy and that the two had slept together.

The defence counsel for the 19-year old said there is no question that he stabbed Jack Frew, but Mr Roy has denied murdering him.

In a police statement, Mr Roy’s sister Robyn said h… Read all
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A 21 year old student was convicted of attempted murder earlier this week after stabbing and bludgeoning a man he met on mobile phone ‘app,’ Qrushr. Clifford David, a 21 year old IT student stabbed 42-year-old teacher Chris Telford with a kitchen knife, before bludgeoning him with a hammer and biting him on the forehead. David also screamed: “You killed my mother. Shut up and die” whilst… Read all
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A Jewish faith school in London has said claims it suggested a ‘gay cure’ group as an alternative for students who thought they might be gay are “false”.

In an article in the Jewish Chronicle, students allege that a sixth-form discussion on homosexuality at JFS ended with a slide displaying the logo of a ‘gay cure’ group and implicitly portrayed it as something they should explore if they… Read all
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Picketers are planning to target a religious ‘ex-gay’ conference in Northern Ireland which refers to gays as ‘lepers’ in its name.

But organisers of ‘The Lepers Among Us’ insist they did not mean to cause offence.

They claim to disagree with the way leprosy sufferers were shunned in biblical times and compare that with how people with “conflicted in religious and sexual identity”… Read all