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Campaign to stop Iran executions
An international campaign has been launched to end the death penalty in Iran. Iran has carried out thousands of executions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, with men who have sex with ... Read more
Thu March 4th, 2010 - 5 Comments
Living in hiding in Iran
In September 2007 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a speech at New York's Columbia University. Following the address a student asked him about the situation for gay people in Iran. In ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - No Comments
National news briefs
Iran talks exclude gays Gay rights activists will not be part of a delegation of persecuted minorities set to meet former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami during his visit to Melbourne, hosted ... Read more
Wed March 25th, 2009 - No Comments
Gay group wants Iran-talks invite
Gay rights activists have asked to meet former Iranian president H. E. Sayed Mohammed Khatami during his visit to Melbourne, hosted by Anglican Archbishop Philip Freier. After outrage from the Jewish ... Read more
Wed March 18th, 2009 - 37 Comments
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Nations united to support global gay and lesbian rights
By Lyndon Barnett In the days following July 19 2005, photographs of two teenage boys dangling by the neck in the ironically named Justice Square in Mashhad in north-eastern Iran permeated ... Read more
Wed March 4th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Iranian lesbian granted asylum
An Iranian lesbian has finally been granted refugee status in the United Kingdom after a four year wait for authorities to give her the green light. Pegah Emambakhsh, 41, will be ... Read more
Wed March 4th, 2009 - No Comments
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Tony, please think before speaking
You have to feel sorry for Tony Abbott. He has been criticised for speaking without thinking, in his comments on women’s virginity, and on homosexuality “challenging orthodox notions of the right order of things”. The ... Read more
Talk to us, Tony
Manly Liberal MP Mike Baird has “strongly recommended” Opposition leader Tony Abbott break his ... Read more
Talk to us, Tony
Manly Liberal MP Mike Baird has “strongly recommended” Opposition leader Tony Abbott break his ... Read more
Gabbing with Glambert
Appropriately for someone whose goth-glam appearance is the subject of much tabloid fodder, out-and-proud ... Read more
Court rules in favour of trans teen
Transgender rights advocates have welcomed a Family Court decision to allow a trans teenager ... Read more
Police apologise to Blacktown victims
Police will do by better by gay and lesbian victims of crime, NSW’s top ... Read more