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Ugandan MP Proposes Death Penalty for ‘Aggravated Homosexuality’

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Towleroad Reports

Ugandan MP David Bahati introduced a bill into Parliament that calls for the death penalty for those guilty of “aggravated homosexuality”.

New Vision reports:

Uganda “A person commits aggravated homosexuality when the victim is a person with disability or below the age of 18, or when the offender is HIV-positive. The bill thus equates aggravated homosexuality to aggravated defilement among people of different sexes, which also carries the death sentence. The Bill, entitled the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, also states that anyone who commits the offence of homosexuality will be liable to life imprisonment. This was already the case under the current Penal Code Act. However, it gives a broader definition of the offence of homosexuality. A person charged with the offence will have to undergo a mandatory medical examination to ascertain his or her HIV status. The bill further states that anybody who ‘attempts to commit the offence’ is liable to imprisonment for seven years.’ The same applies

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Belinda Carlisle endorses NO ON 1 Campaign

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

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Muslim Soccer team banned after refusing to play gay team

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

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PARIS (AP) – Amateur soccer club was banned from the French amateur league on Wednesday after refusing to play a match against a gay team.Last week, Paris Foot Gay said its members were victims of homophobia when Creteil Bebel, a team of Muslim players, refused to play them this month.

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The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, An Epilogue Makes History

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

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Austinist Reports

A month after Matthew Shepard was murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998, New York’s Tectonic Theater Project trekked down there and conducted interviews with hundreds of locals—including those close to the family of the victim and perpetrators—to try and understand why such a horrific hate crime could have occurred. The result was The Laramie Project, a jarring, heartrending play that interspersed dozens of those interviews with journal entries from Tectonic members.

Fast forward, ten years later: The Laramie Project became something of a national phenomenon, easily one of the most performed productions of the past decade. HBO even made a film adaptation of it in 2002, starring Laura Linney, Peter Fonda, and Steve Buscemi.

Last year, the crew returned to the quiet Wyoming college town to see how, and if, things had changed. The result, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, an Epilogue, follows the same format as its predecessor, but blows up the scale by orders of magnitude. This past Monday, the production saw its triumphant debut across over 150 theaters in 14 countries. The simultaneous stagings tied into an online interactive community, where participants were invited to blog, upload video and photos and exchange stories about their experiences in preparing and presenting the Epilogue in their communities.

One of the two productions staged locally took place at the Lab Theater at UT Austin, directed by MFA candidate Courtney Sale under the Department of Theatre and Dance. This time around, Tectonic was able to interview not only Judy Shepard, who’s become something of a national hero for her tireless crusade for gay rights, but the murderers as well: Russell Henderson, the reluctant accomplice who confronts daily his own shame for not having intervened ‘enough’ during the beating, and Aaron McKinney, the expressionless thug who still admits, with a breathtaking frankness, that “as far as Matt is concerned, I don’t have any remorse.”

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Freedom to marry under attack in Maine.

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

An important message sent on behalf of No on 1 – Protect Maine Equality Campaign

Freedom to marry under attack in Maine.
The freedom to marry is under attack in Maine. We need your help!In less than six weeks, Maine voters will decide on a statewide referendum that could deny same-sex couples the freedom to marry. As usual, anti-gay extremists are doing everything they can to strip LGBT people of this fundamental right. Despite their efforts, polls show the election is very close.But with so much at stake,

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