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GAY ARRESTS IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES: A number of men have been arrested for being gay in Egypt, Morocco and Bahrain.

JOY AS NEPAL GAYS GIVEN EQUAL RIGHTS: There were tears of joy within the Nepali LGBT community on Monday when the Supreme Court ruled that sexual and gender minorities must be given their rights.

GAYS SAFE AT MOSCOW EUROVISION CONTEST: Moscow authorities have said that gays and lesbians will be safe while attending next year’s Eurovision song contest.

PLAY ABOUT EXECUTED GAY IRANIAN TEENS TO OPEN: A play about two Iranian teenagers executed in Iran three years ago, who were widely thought to have been gay, is set to premiere in Chicago this week.

NIGERIA ASKED TO INTERVENE IN GAY NGO HARASSMENT: The European Parliament’s ‘intergroup’ on gay and lesbian rights has told the Nigerian Government that the level of homophobia in the country is “unacceptable”.

SENATOR OBAMA REMEMBERS MATTHEW SHEPARD: Senator Barack Obama has described as “unacceptable” the lack of legislation in the United States to address the problem of ‘hate crime’.

ENGLISH CLUB WINS GAY WORLD FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP: English club Stonewall Lions FC convincingly won the Gay World Football Championship on Saturday in London.

WE ARE GAY BUT STILL UGANDANS: This is an ‘open letter’ from a gay Ugandan to the President of his country, Yoweri Museveni. It comes after Museveni recently publicly praised Anglican bishops for 'resisting' homosexuality.

CONTROVERSIAL PRIDE AD BILL TO GET PAID: An ad campaign promoting South Carolina to gay tourists, which was canned by that State's governor, will be paid for by the South Carolina Pride Movement.

BRITISH EMBASSY FLIES GAY FLAG: A little piece of UK gay history was made when the British Ambassador to Latvia ordered the Rainbow Flag to be flown at the Embassy to mark Riga Pride.