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  • Timeline of gay marriage and rights in Australia

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    Australia’s parliament passed a law legalising same-sex marriage Thursday. It followed a historic nationwide survey that saw Australians vote overwhelmingly in favour of marriage equality. Here is a timeline of key moments in marriage rights in Australia: 1961: Australia introduces its first Marriage Act, but it does not include a formal definition of marriage 1975: South Australia becomes the first state to decriminalise male homosexuality 1976-1997:… (more…)

  • Austria’s top court allows same-sex marriage

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    Austria’s top court has ruled that same-sex couples can marry from 2019 at the latest, bringing the often conservative Alpine country into line with more than a dozen other European nations. “The Constitutional Court nullified with a decision on December 4, 2017 the legal regulation that until now prevented such couples from marrying,” a statement released on Tuesday said. (more…)

  • Egypt jails 14 men for being gay

    An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 14 men convicted of being homosexuals to three years in jail each for “abnormal” sexual relations, a defence lawyer said. Ishaq Wadie said the men were released on bail of 5,000 Egyptian pounds ($283, 230 euros) each until an appeals trial.

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  • UK theatre cites 20 ‘inappropriate behaviour’ claims against Spacey

    The Old Vic theatre said Thursday that it had received 20 claims of “inappropriate behaviour” against US actor Kevin Spacey, who was artistic director at the prestigious London venue for over … (more…)

  • Gay and marriage rights in Australia: A timeline

    Australians have voted overwhelmingly in favour of same-sex marriage, in a historic nationwide survey that will now go to parliament to give it the force of law. Nearly 80 percent of eligible voters took part in the two-month postal survey, with 61.6 percent of respondents saying “yes” to gay unions, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday. (more…)

  • Did you know it’s illegal to dance in most of NYC’s Bars?

    Legal ballet to end New York prohibition on dancing

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    Dancing is technically illegal in thousands of bars, clubs and restaurants in the city that never sleeps, but New York campaigners are finally in sight of getting the law overturned. The “cabaret law,” passed in 1926, requires public spaces that sell food and drink to acquire near impossible-to-obtain permits to authorize dancing indoors. (more…)

  • ‘Serious fears’ missing Russian pop star killed in Chechnya

    Serious fears have been raised that a Russian pop star has been killed in Chechnya’s crackdown on homosexuality.

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    A leading Russian human rights group said it had “serious fears” Friday that a gay pop star may have been killed in Chechnya as part of a crackdown on the homosexual community. Chechen Zelimkhan Bakayev, 26, went missing in August when he left his home in Moscow to visit the capital Grozny to attend his sister’s wedding. (more…)

  • Disney Channel to air first gay storyline

    Disney Channel to air first gay storyline

    The Disney Channel is set to introduce a gay storyline for the first time in its show “Andi Mack,” it said on Thursday. The one-hour season two premiere, which airs Friday in the US, will see best friends Andi (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) and Cyrus (Joshua Rush) admit they are attracted to the same boy. (more…)

  • Tanzania arrests 12 for “homosexuality” in Dar es Salaam

    Tanzanian police said Wednesday they had arrested 12 men, including two South Africans and a Ugandan, for presumed homosexuality as part of an ongoing crackdown against gays. “We arrested the criminals at (the hotel) Peacock — they were promoting homosexuality. (more…)

  • Tajikistan announces official register of gay citizens

    Authoritarian Tajikistan announced Tuesday it had drawn up a register of 367 allegedly gay citizens, suggesting they would be required to undergo testing to avoid “the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases.”

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  • Gay Russian speaks out on police torture in Chechnya

    A gay man living in Chechnya on Monday went public to describe his detention and torture by police during a crackdown on homosexuals in the region ruled by strongman Ramzan Kadryov.

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    Maxim Lapunov, who gave a press conference in Moscow, is the first victim to come forward since reports emerged in March of gay men being imprisoned and beaten in the mainly Muslim region where homosexuality is taboo. (more…)