Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro told La Jornada the persecution of gays, who were rounded up at the time as supposed counterrevolutionaries and placed in forced labor camps, was a “great injustice” that arose from the island’s history of discrimination against homosexuals, according to Reuters.
This is what the former Cuban president had to say:
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From The Atlantic
Suddenly, it’s becoming less of a stigma for bigwigs to associate with gays in the Republican Party. Not only has former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman’s 9/22 fundraiser for gay marriage rights attracted numerous high-octane Republican donors and activists, but Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and Rep. Pete Sessions, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee will help the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group, raise money for its political action committee. (Part of this storywas first reported last month.)
A glossy pamphlet advertising the Log Cabin Republicans’ national dinner at the Capitol Hill Club highlights an hour-long cocktail gathering with the two party committee chairs, both strong opponents of gay rights. But their attendance will add to the coffers of the LCR’s political action committee, which endorses Republicans who support gay rights.
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Ugandan gay activist Abdallah Wambere aka Long Jones. Photo courtesy of Xtra, unrelated to documentary.
From Gaelick.com
The only thing holding the Anti-Homosexuality Bill back, right now, is Museveni, who is afraid of losing support from Western donors. If there was a vote on it tomorrow, it would pass almost unanimously. To vote against it would be political suicide in Uganda. ~NPR
A year ago, three American Evangelicals traveled to Uganda for a conference on “the gay agenda” to speak about curing homosexuality. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill was proposed just a few months later and introduced some of the harshest punishments in the world for homosexuals. It calls for lifetime imprisonment for all LGBT people, death to homosexuals who are HIV positive and prison for any Ugandan who fails to report LGBT Ugandans within 24 hours of the Bill passing.
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There's poor overwhelmed Leno in the background while crazy as loon Ashburn daydreams over plans to redo the whole gay marriage scenario in Cali.
We’re beginning to like this Ashburn guy. We like his ballsy-ness. According to On Top Magazine, California Senator Roy Ashburn sent a letter last week to CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asking him to veto the Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act bill, a pet project of Senator Mark Leno and EQCA.
His reason? Ashburn feels the bill will just create second-class marriages for gay folks.
The Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act says religious organizations could not be stripped of their tax-exempt status if their clergy refuse to perform any civil marriage that is contrary to the tenets of his or her faith.
Ashburn says he agrees that religious freedoms should be protected, but notes such protections are already in place under existing state law and the U.S. Constitution. Here’s a segment from the letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger:
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IGLHRC Staff Members Chivuli Ukwimi and Cary Alan Johnson, Nigerian Activist Ifeanyi Orazaulike, and Georges Kanuma at Pre-Conference workshop on LGBT and HIV Programs, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009
From Kenya Imagine
Written by Keguro Macharia
On May 17, 2010, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) arranged a reception at the Kenyan National Museum to celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO). Attendees included members from the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK) and other members of Civil Society. This event, the first of its kind, was a public declaration by KHRC that LGBTI rights are human rights.
Prior to this event, KHRC had listed LGBTI rights as a concern on their website. And in 2007, KHRC hosted a special conference that focused onLGBTI rights. However, this reception was in a publicly designated physical space: it was a coming out that wedded sexual rights to human rights at an institutional level.
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